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Last updated: May 7, 2026

Manage access and ownership for investigations

Learn about investigation access and how to give, edit, remove access, and transfer ownership via the web app to ensure your team has the right level of access.

How does access for investigations work?

Access to investigations is managed at the individual investigation level, so you can control who can view or make changes. By default, only the creator has access and is set as the investigation owner.

There are three access levels you can give, depending on what your team needs:

  • Owner: Has full control of the investigation, including managing access, deleting the investigation, and transferring ownership. There can only be one owner at a time. Ownership can only be reassigned by the current owner or a user with "Investigations: Manage" permission.

  • View: Can only view the investigation details but can’t make changes.

  • Edit: Can view and edit investigation details, add relevant issues, inspections, and actions, and download investigation reports.

Manage investigation access via the web app.

Users with "Override permissions: Manage all data" permissionare treated as having owner-level access on all investigations. This means they can transfer ownership even without being the owner.

If you're on Free Plan, all investigations in your organization are visible to all users. To control who can view or edit an investigation, upgrade to Premium Plan or Enterprise Plan.

Give access to an investigation

  1. Log in to the web app.

  2. Select Investigations in the sidebar or select it in

    More
    .

  3. Select an investigation and click

    Manage access
    on the upper-right of the page.

  4. In the pop-up window, select the user you want to give access to.

  5. Click Done . By default, each user is given the "View" access to the investigation.You can click the dropdown next to each user to change their access level.

  6. Click Save .

Select users and give them access to an investigation.

Edit access to an investigation

  1. Log in to the web app.

  2. Select Investigations in the sidebar or select it in

    More
    .

  3. Select an investigation and click

    Manage access
    on the upper-right of the page.

  4. In the pop-up window, find the user under “Users with access”.

  5. Click

    next to the user's name and select View or Edit .

  6. Click Save .

Find a user and edit their investigation access from "View" to "Edit".

Remove access to an investigation

  1. Log in to the web app.

  2. Select Investigations in the sidebar or select it in

    More
    .

  3. Select an investigation and click

    Manage access
    on the upper-right of the page.

  4. In the pop-up window, find the user under “Users with access”.

  5. Click

    next to the user's name and select Remove access .

  6. Click Save .

Search for a user and click the "Remove access" button to remove their access to an investigation.

Transfer ownership of an investigation

  1. Log in to the web app.

  2. Select Investigations in the sidebar or select it in

    More
    .

  3. Select an investigation and click

    Manage access
    on the upper-right of the page.

  4. In the pop-up window, search for and select the user you want to transfer ownership to.

  5. Click Done .

  6. Click

    next to the user's name and select Make owner .

  7. Click Save .

Search for a user and click the "Make owner" button to transfer ownership of an investigation.

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