Workspace

Change a member's role

PATCHhttps://voxa.abhinavyadav.in/api/v1/members/{user_id}

Only an owner can grant or take away the owner role, and a workspace always keeps one owner.

Authorization

A signed-in member with the members.manage permission (Authorization: Bearer session token). API keys can’t do this.

Authorization: Bearermembers.manageworks before activation

Path parameters

user_idstringrequired

The member's user id.

Query parameters

timezonestringdefault: "Asia/Kolkata"

IANA time zone for every timestamp in the response (at, date, timestamp and *_at fields), as ISO 8601 with the offset. The X-Timezone header works too; the zone used comes back in the X-Timezone response header. An unknown zone is a 400.

Body application/json

roleenum<string>required

One of:owneradmindeveloperviewer

Response

200Success.

See the 200 example next to the code samples.

401No credentials, or they are invalid or revoked.

detailstring

What went wrong, in plain words.

403Your role (or an API key) lacks the permission.

detailstring

What went wrong, in plain words.

422Validation Error

detailobject[]

Show item attributes

locstring | integer[]

msgstring

typestring

curl --request PATCH \
  --url 'https://voxa.abhinavyadav.in/api/v1/members/{user_id}?timezone=Asia/Kolkata' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "role": "admin"
}'

import requests

url = "https://voxa.abhinavyadav.in/api/v1/members/{user_id}"
params = {
    "timezone": "Asia/Kolkata",
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
}
payload = {
    "role": "admin",
}

response = requests.patch(url, params=params, headers=headers, json=payload)
print(response.status_code, response.json())

const response = await fetch("https://voxa.abhinavyadav.in/api/v1/members/{user_id}?timezone=Asia/Kolkata", {
  method: "PATCH",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "role": "admin"
  }),
})
const data = await response.json()
console.log(response.status, data)

Response

{
  "user_id": "u_2b7c…",
  "name": "Asha Rao",
  "email": "asha@example.com",
  "role": "admin",
  "joined_at": "2026-09-12T14:00:00+05:30",
  "last_login_at": "2026-09-30T14:31:00+05:30"
}

{
  "detail": "sign in required"
}

{
  "detail": "your role cannot do this (members.manage)"
}

{
  "detail": [
    {
      "type": "missing",
      "loc": [
        "body",
        "name"
      ],
      "msg": "Field required",
      "input": {}
    }
  ]
}