You can invite, edit, and delete users in your Samsara dashboard:
With user roles, you can create users with specific permissions within your Samsara dashboard. To invite an administrative user to access your Samsara dashboard:
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Select the Settings icon (
) at the bottom of your Fleet menu to view dashboard settings.
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In Organization > Users & Roles, select + Invite User.
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Enter the Email address for the administrator account and assign a Role.
See Administrative Roles for more information.
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To view or edit the role settings for a custom role, expand the role permissions.
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If you also set up tags, you can assign a tag for a reduced level of access. See Tag Defined Roles.
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If you want to grant the administrator user access to your Samsara dashboard for a limited time, select Temporary Account and set an account expiration date.
User account expiration dates are useful when you have a contractor that requires access to the Samsara dashboard for a limited time, such as six months or a year.
If you need to invite a Samsara employee to your dashboard you must assign an account expiration date between two (2) hours to 90 days.
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Save your changes.
You can view the invitation in the Pending Invitations tab until the user accepts the invitation. You can also resend or revoke the invite from this page. If you do not see any pending invitations, reload your page.
For users with temporary accounts, the expiration date for their Samsara dashboard access is visible in the Access column.
After you Invite a New Administrator, the new user receives an email invite. To accept the invitation, the new user must first click the invitation and create an account to accept the invite. If the user has an existing account, the user must Sign In to accept the invitation link.
To modify or delete an existing user:
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Select the Settings icon (
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In Organization > Users & Roles, select more actions (...) to the right of the user name and select the action:
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Edit the role of the user or access level.
To remove a role for a user, select delete (
).
To add additional roles to a user, select +Add role.
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Delete an administrator account.
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Save your changes.
You can use bulk upload to either add new admins or update the roles and tags of existing admins. You must be an organizational administrator to bulk upload admins. See Administrative Roles for a description of administrative roles, how to configure them individually, and the specific levels of access that each role receives. To streamline administrator account creation, you can upload the settings for administrators in bulk:
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Select the Settings icon (
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In Organization > Users & Roles, select more actions (...) > Upload CSV.
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Select Sample Template to download a blank template or Admins List to download a CSV to edit your existing admin roles.
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Upload a comma-separated values (CSV) file that follows the template guidelines and includes one line for each administrator.
name,email,role,tags,authType,expireAt Full name,email@example.com,Full Admin,"role1:tag1, role2:tag2",basic,2023/10/31 08:00:00 AM
Use the following table as a guide for your CSV upload:
Field
Description
Example
name
The name of the user
Firstname Lastname
email
The email address of the user
name@samsara.com
role
For an organizational admin, assign the name of the role to the user
Caution
Leave this field blank if only assigning user to specific tags. Including both a role and tag description will give the user both organizational and tag level access.
Full Admin
tags
The name of the role to assign the user for the tag specified.
Note
Leave this field blank if assigning user to an organizational role
Full Admin: Tag 1, Read-only Admin: Tag 2
authType
The type of authentication for the user
basic/SAML
expireAt
For temporary accounts, assign the account expiration date and time.
The expiration time is based on your organization's default time zone.
2023/10/31 08:00:00 AM
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Preview the additions.
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Confirm to accept the additions.
