# Transferring ownership of a workspace

{% hint style="info" %}
**Required permission**

* **Global permission:** View organization users. This permission is only required for the Tonic Structural application. It is not needed when you use the Structural API.
* Either:
  * **Workspace permission:** Transfer workspace ownership
  * **Global permission:** Manage access to Tonic Structural and to any workspace

**To grant yourself access after the transfer:**

* **Workspace permission:** Share workspace access
  {% endhint %}

## About workspace ownership

Every workspace has an owner. The owner is always a user.

The user who creates the workspace is automatically the owner of the workspace.

By default, the workspace owner is assigned the built-in Manager workspace permission set. On Enterprise instances, you can [choose a different workspace permission set to assign to all workspace owners](/app/admin/tonic-user-access/permissions/permission-sets-default.md#permission-set-default-workspace-owner).

You cannot remove that permission set from the workspace owner.

## About ownership transfer

You can transfer a workspace to a different owner.

When you transfer ownership of a workspace, the new owner is assigned the owner permission set.

If the previous owner was not separately granted access to the owner permission set, then that permission set is removed.

## Completing the ownership transfer

To transfer workspace ownership:

1. To transfer ownership of a single workspace, from the workspace actions menu, select **Transfer Ownership**.
2. To transfer ownership of multiple workspaces:
   1. Check the checkbox for each workspace to grant access to.
   2. From the **Actions** menu, select **Transfer Ownership**.
3. On the transfer ownership panel, from the **User** dropdown list, select the new owner.
4. If you are the current owner of the workspace, then to grant yourself non-owner access after you transfer the ownership:
   1. Toggle **Receive access to workspace** to the on position.
   2. Select the workspace permission set to assign to yourself.
5. Click **Transfer Ownership**.


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