Project Roles
The table below illustrates the role-based access control for various Project actions available to different user types.Contact support to gain access to the Viewer role for your Projects.
| Permission | Project Admin | Team Manager | Reviewer | Annotator | Annotator & Reviewer | Viewer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attach / Detach Datasets | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Attach / Switch Ontology | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Delete | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Invite team members | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Manage team permissions | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Manage admins | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Annotate & review tasks | ✅ | ✅ | Review only | Annotate only | ✅ | ❌ |
| Confirm annotations | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Control task assignments and status | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Exporting labels | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Assign and Release Tasks | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Browse and inspect labels (all workflow stages) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Create and resolve comments | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Export Labels
Exporting labels is one of the most important tasks a Project Admin performs. You can export labels from a Project at any point in the Project’s completeness from any block in the Project Workflow.Exporting labels
Export your labels from Encord
JSON format
JSON label export format
COCO Format
COCO label export format
Sync Labels to Cloud Storage
Sync your labels to Cloud Storage
Explore
Explore allows you to perform label QA, bulk actions, and view data and label analytics in your Project.Bulk Actions
Bulk classification
Apply classifications in bulk.
Bulk deletion
Delete labels in bulk
Bulk Edit Class
Edit object labels in bulk
Bulk Task Prioritization
Set Task priority in bulk
Task Management
As a Project Admin, you can manage individual tasks directly from the Label Queue without opening the full task editor. Click the three-dot (⋯) menu on any task row to access the following actions:- Assign — Assign the task to a specific project member (available on annotation and review stages).
- Release — Unassign the task from its current assignee (available for assigned tasks only).
- Change priority — Set a new priority value for the task.
- Move to stage — Move the task to another stage in the Project Workflow.
Assign, Release, Change priority, and Move to stage are only available to users with the Project Admin or Team Manager role. View, Activity log, and API details are available to all users who can see the queue row.
Project Settings
Project Settings
Configure Project settings for all users.
Project Management
Create Projects
Learn how to create Projects.
Manage Projects
Learn how to manage Projects.
Project Workflows
Learn how to create Project Workflows.

