Permissions
Understand View, Contribute, Edit, and Admin access in Felt. Learn how permissions work across maps, projects, data sources, and workspaces.
A seat lets someone work in Felt; access levels control what they can do on each map, project, data source, and workspace. In ArcGIS terms, a seat is closest to a user type, and access levels replace roles. Admin, Edit, and Contribute access need a seat. View access doesn't. See Seats and viewers.
Map
View, Contribute, Edit
Project
View, Contribute, Edit, Project admin
Data source
View, Edit, Source admin
Workspace
View, Contribute, Edit, Admin, None
To give access, see Manage members and Share a map.
Map-level permissions
Open the map, search, and turn layers on and off for yourself
Yes
Yes
Yes
Open layer tables
When allowed
When allowed
Yes
Read and post comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Export the map as an image or PDF
Yes
Yes
Yes
Export layer data
When allowed
When allowed
Yes
Duplicate the map
When allowed
When allowed
Yes
Draw, edit, and delete annotations
No
Yes
Yes
Add, edit, and delete features and their attribute values, including photos
No
Yes
Yes
Capture field data in the Field App
No
Yes
Yes
Upload data, and add, style, and delete layers
No
No
Yes
Add and remove table columns
No
No
Yes
Run spatial analysis and SQL queries
No
No
Yes
Rename the map, change map settings, and add dashboard components
No
No
Yes
Export annotations, and delete or resolve anyone's comments
No
No
Yes
Invite people, change their access, and change public link access
No
No
Yes
"When allowed" depends on the map settings: Viewers can open table and Duplicate map and data are on by default, and Export data is off by default. In those settings, "viewers" means people without Edit access to the map. Duplicating creates a new map, so it also needs a seat in the workspace you copy the map into. Editing layer data and exporting also depend on your plan.
Deleting a map needs Edit access to its project, or the map must be in your drafts. Edit access to the map alone isn't enough.
People with Contribute or Edit access see each other's live cursors while they edit the map, and in view mode too when the See map presence map setting is on. That setting also shows everyone the avatars of others on the map. People with View access, people on a public link, and embedded maps don't show live cursors.
To change a map, click Edit map in the toolbar, or Contribute if you have Contribute access. With View access, neither appears. Ask someone with Edit access to the map, or a workspace admin, for a higher access level.
Editing a Felt Server layer also needs Edit access to that Felt Server.
Limit what each person can see
Everyone with access to a map can see all its layers, features, and rows. To limit who sees which data, put it on separate maps and share each map or project with the right people. Database queries use the source's credentials, not those of the person viewing the map.
Project-level permissions
Project access applies to every map in the project, and Project admin gives Edit access to the maps.
See the project and open its maps
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Create, delete, and move maps, and manage folders
No
No
Yes
Yes
Rename the project
No
No
Yes
Yes
Invite people and change their access, other than Project admins
No
No
Yes
Yes
Invite Project admins and change their access
No
No
No
Yes
Change the project's icon, visibility, and workspace default
No
No
No
Yes
Delete the project
No
No
No
Yes
To move a map, you need Edit access to both projects.
Workspace-level permissions
Workspace access sets what a member can do across the workspace, including projects and data sources open to it. External collaborators have no workspace access (None).
In the Seat type column on the Members tab, Seat gives Edit access to the workspace, and Viewer gives View access.
See the member list and the projects open to the workspace
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Create maps
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Create projects
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Add data sources, including Felt Servers
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Create and delete your own API tokens, manage your own webhooks, and connect MCP
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Upload custom icons
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Invite and remove members, and change their access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Change workspace settings, and see usage and billing
Yes
No
No
No
No
Delete the workspace
Yes
No
No
No
No
Anyone with a seat can create maps, including people with Contribute access to the workspace. New maps start in your drafts unless you create them inside a project.
A workspace always has at least one admin. The only admin can't leave the workspace or remove their own Admin access. Each person's API tokens are their own: no one else, including an admin, can delete them.
Workspace admins can't open private projects or maps they haven't been invited to, but they can change anyone's access on the Members tab.
Data source-level permissions
Workspace members inherit access to a source, capped by its workspace default: None, View, or Edit. The default starts at View. Within that cap, Admin or Edit workspace access gives Edit access to the source; Contribute or View gives View. With a default of None, only people invited to the source can use it.
See the source, browse its data, and add its layers to a map
Yes
Yes
Yes
Write SQL queries against the source
No
Yes
Yes
Edit, rename, or delete the source
No
Yes
Yes
Publish, organize, and delete layers in a Felt Server
No
Yes
Yes
Invite people and change their access, other than Source admins
No
Yes
Yes
Invite Source admins, and change the workspace default
No
No
Yes
Invite people to a data source
Available on the Business and Enterprise plans. Compare plans
Invite people from the source's share menu. See Data sources.
How access is inherited
Map access can come from an invitation, the map's project, the workspace, or a public link. The highest access level applies. Drafts also follow Enterprise workspace sharing defaults. See Organize maps.
A project set to Workspace is open to the workspace. Each member inherits their workspace access, capped by the project's workspace default. To give someone a higher access level, invite them to the project. A private project is open only to people invited to it.
Admin or Edit
View
Contribute
Edit
Contribute
View
Contribute
Contribute
View
View
View
View
None
No access
No access
No access
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