• Maximum role
  • Which roles you can assign
  • View the member’s Max role
• View a group’s shared projects
• Related topics

Share a project with a group

Similar to how you share a group with another group, you can share a project with a group by inviting that group to the project.

Prerequisites:

• You must be at least one of the following:
  • Explicitly defined as a member of the project.
  • Explicitly defined as a member of a group or subgroup that has access to the project.
  • An administrator.
• You must be a member of the invited group or subgroup.

To invite a group to a project:

1. On the left sidebar, select Search or go to and find your project.
2. Select Manage > Members.
3. Select Invite a group.
4. Select a group you want to add to the project.
5. Select a role you want to assign to the group.
6. Optional. Select an Access expiration date.
7. Select Invite.

Maximum role

When you invite a group to a project, the maximum role is the highest level of access the invited group members are allowed to have in the project.

When multiple groups contain the same members, and the groups have access to the same project, the group members are given the highest access level of the two for the project.

The member’s Max role is the more restrictive of:

• The role the user is assigned for the group.
• The role you chose when you invited the group to the project.

Which roles you can assign

In GitLab 16.7 and later, the maximum role you can assign depends on whether you have the Owner or Maintainer role for the project. The maximum role you can set is:

• Owner (50), if you have the Owner role for the project.
• Maintainer (40), if you have the Maintainer role for the project.

In GitLab 16.6 and earlier, the maximum role you can assign to an invited group is Maintainer (40).

View the member’s Max role

To view the maximum role assigned to a member:

1. On the left sidebar, select Search or go to and find your project.
2. Select Manage > Members.
3. In the Max role column, view the user’s maximum assigned role.

View a group’s shared projects

In a group, a shared project is a project to which the group members gained access through the Invite group action.

To view a group’s shared projects:

1. On the left sidebar, select Search or go to and find your group.
2. On the group page, select the Shared projects tab.

A list of shared projects is displayed.

Related topics

• Sharing projects and groups
• Prevent a project from being shared with groups.
• Prevent group sharing outside the group hierarchy.