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# Create User Project Membership

POST https://api.projectmanager.com/api/data/projects/{projectId}/members/{userId}
Content-Type: application/json

Creates a membership for a user in a specified project
and assigns the user the appropriate project access based on the specified project security role.
            
A project member is a user who has access to a specific project.
Project members are assigned a project security role, which controls the level of access they have to
the project.
Possible project security roles include manage, edit, collaborate, creator, and guest.

Reference: https://developer.projectmanager.com/api-reference/project-members/create-user-project-membership

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Request

### Path parameters

- `projectId` (string, required) — Reference to Project
- `userId` (string, required) — Reference to User

### Headers

- `x-integration-name` (string, optional) — The name of the calling system passed along as a header parameter

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects a ProjectMemberRoleDto.

- `role` (enum, optional, nullable) — Role to apply. Optional — when omitted, a default role is applied based on the target user's workspace access: users who can edit all projects become a Manager, guest users become a Guest, and everyone else becomes an Editor. When updating an existing member, omitting the role leaves their current role unchanged.
  - Allowed values: `Guest`, `Collaborate`, `Editor`, `Manager`

## Response

### 200

Success

- `error` (AstroError, optional, nullable) — If the API call failed, this will contain information about the error that occurred.
- `success` (boolean, optional) — True if the API call succeeded; false otherwise.
- `hasError` (boolean, optional) — True if the API call failed.
- `statusCode` (enum, optional) — The HTTP code of the response.
  - Allowed values: `Continue`, `SwitchingProtocols`, `Processing`, `EarlyHints`, `OK`, `Created`, `Accepted`, `NonAuthoritativeInformation`, `NoContent`, `ResetContent`, `PartialContent`, `MultiStatus`, `AlreadyReported`, `IMUsed`, `MultipleChoices`, `MovedPermanently`, `Found`, `SeeOther`, `NotModified`, `UseProxy`, `Unused`, `TemporaryRedirect`, `PermanentRedirect`, `BadRequest`, `Unauthorized`, `PaymentRequired`, `Forbidden`, `NotFound`, `MethodNotAllowed`, `NotAcceptable`, `ProxyAuthenticationRequired`, `RequestTimeout`, `Conflict`, `Gone`, `LengthRequired`, `PreconditionFailed`, `RequestEntityTooLarge`, `RequestUriTooLong`, `UnsupportedMediaType`, `RequestedRangeNotSatisfiable`, `ExpectationFailed`, `MisdirectedRequest`, `UnprocessableEntity`, `Locked`, `FailedDependency`, `UpgradeRequired`, `PreconditionRequired`, `TooManyRequests`, `RequestHeaderFieldsTooLarge`, `UnavailableForLegalReasons`, `InternalServerError`, `NotImplemented`, `BadGateway`, `ServiceUnavailable`, `GatewayTimeout`, `HttpVersionNotSupported`, `VariantAlsoNegotiates`, `InsufficientStorage`, `LoopDetected`, `NotExtended`, `NetworkAuthenticationRequired`
- `data` (ProjectMemberDto, optional) — A ProjectMember is a user who can collaborate on a Project. You can control permissions for what each ProjectMember can do and how they can interact with the Project using this model.

## Types

### AstroError

Information about an error that occurred within the ProjectManager API.

- `technicalError` (string, optional, nullable) — A technical description of the error that occurred. Not suitable for display to end users.
- `additionalErrors` (list of string, optional, nullable) — If additional errors beyond the main error in `Message` occurred, they will be listed here as individual messages.
- `validationErrors` (map from string to list of string, optional, nullable) — This contains a dictionary of validation errors. The key is the name of the field
- `message` (string, optional, nullable) — A description of the error that occurred. If your application has a user interface, show this message to explain what went wrong.

### ProjectMemberDto

A ProjectMember is a user who can collaborate on a Project. You can control permissions for what each ProjectMember can do and how they can interact with the Project using this model.

- `id` (string, optional) — The unique identifier of the user of this ProjectMember.
- `projectId` (string, optional) — The unique identifier of the project that this ProjectMember belongs to.
- `initials` (string, optional) — the initials of the user
- `name` (string, optional) — The display name of the user
- `avatarUrl` (string, optional, nullable) — Avatar URL
- `permission` (string, optional, nullable) — The current permission of the user
- `color` (string, optional) — The color for their avatar
- `permissionOptions` (PermissionOptionsDto, optional, nullable) — Specifies the permissions that you can set against the project member. This changes based on who is logged in and the role they have.
- `role` (string, optional, nullable, deprecated) — The role of the user in the project Obsolete use Permission instead

### PermissionOptionsDto

Specifies the permissions a member can be changed to on a project. This objects values can change based on the logged in user and the role they have.

- `none` (boolean, optional) — If true, the users access can be removed
- `collaborate` (boolean, optional) — If true the user can be changed to collaborator
- `guest` (boolean, optional) — If true a user can be set as guest, a guest can only be Guest or None
- `editor` (boolean, optional) — If true the user can be changed to editor
- `manager` (boolean, optional) — If true the user can be changed to Manager

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "error": {
    "technicalError": "string",
    "additionalErrors": [
      "string"
    ],
    "validationErrors": {},
    "message": "string"
  },
  "success": true,
  "hasError": true,
  "statusCode": "Continue",
  "data": {
    "id": "string",
    "projectId": "string",
    "initials": "string",
    "name": "string",
    "avatarUrl": "string",
    "permission": "string",
    "color": "string",
    "permissionOptions": {
      "none": true,
      "collaborate": true,
      "guest": true,
      "editor": true,
      "manager": true
    },
    "role": "string"
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.projectmanager.com/api/data/projects/projectId/members/userId"

payload = {}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.projectmanager.com/api/data/projects/projectId/members/userId';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{}'
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.projectmanager.com/api/data/projects/projectId/members/userId"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.projectmanager.com/api/data/projects/projectId/members/userId")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.projectmanager.com/api/data/projects/projectId/members/userId")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{}")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api.projectmanager.com/api/data/projects/projectId/members/userId', [
  'body' => '{}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.projectmanager.com/api/data/projects/projectId/members/userId");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.projectmanager.com/api/data/projects/projectId/members/userId")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```