Invite One User to an Atlas Organization¶
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Invites one user to the Atlas organization that you specify.
The user must accept the invitation to access the Atlas organization.
The Atlas Administration API authenticates using HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide a programmatic API public key and corresponding private key as the username and password when constructing the HTTP request. To learn how to configure API access for an Atlas project, see Get Started with the Atlas Administration API.
Required Roles¶
You can successfully call this endpoint with the Organization Owner
role.
Resource¶
https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0
POST /orgs/{ORG-ID}/invites
Request Path Parameters¶
Path Element | Type | Necessity | Description |
---|---|---|---|
ORG-ID | string | Required | Unique 24-hexadecimal digit string that identifies the
organization. |
Request Query Parameters¶
This endpoint might use any of the HTTP request query parameters available to all Atlas Administration API resources. All of these are optional.
Name | Type | Necessity | Description | Default | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
pretty | boolean | Optional | Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a
prettyprint format. | false | ||||||
envelope | boolean | Optional | Flag indicating if Atlas should wrap the response in a JSON envelope. This option may be needed for some API clients. These clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query. For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:
| false |
Request Body Parameters¶
Body Parameter | Type | Necessity | Description |
---|---|---|---|
roles | array of strings | Required | Atlas roles to assign to the invited user. If the user accepts the invitation, Atlas assigns these roles to them. |
teamIds | array of strings | Optional | Unique 24-hexadecimal digit strings that identify the teams
that you invite the user to join. |
username | string | Required | Email address of the invited user. This is the address to which Atlas sends the invite. If the user accepts the invitation, they log in to Atlas with this username. |
Response¶
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
createdAt | string | Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when Atlas sent the invitation. |
expiresAt | string | Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when the invitation expires. Tip Users have 30 days to accept an invitation to an Atlas project. |
id | string | Unique 24-hexadecimal digit string that identifies the
invitation. |
inviterUsername | string | Atlas user who invited username to the organization. |
orgId | string | Unique 24-hexadecimal digit string that identifies the
organization. |
orgName | string | Name of the organization. |
roles | array of strings | Atlas roles to assign to the invited user. If the user accepts the invitation, Atlas assigns these roles to them. |
teamIds | array of strings | Unique 24-hexadecimal digit strings that identify the teams
that the user was invited to join. |
username | string | Email address to which Atlas sent the invitation. If the user accepts the invitation, they use this email address as their Atlas username. |
Example Request¶
curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest --include \ --header "Accept: application/json" \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/orgs/{ORG-ID}/invites?pretty=true" \ --data ' { "roles": [ "ORG_MEMBER" ], "username": "wyatt.smith@example.com" }'
Example Response¶
Response Header¶
401 Unauthorized Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: {dateInUnixFormat} WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes} Connection: keep-alive
200 OK Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: application/json Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300 Date: {dateInUnixFormat} Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Response Body¶
1 { 2 "createdAt": "2021-02-18T21:05:40Z", 3 "expiresAt": "2021-03-20T21:05:40Z", 4 "id": "602ed6a49a7b2379719b97f7", 5 "inviterUsername": "admin@example.com", 6 "orgId": "5df7a168f10fab3a149357fb", 7 "orgName": "jww-12-16", 8 "roles": [ 9 "ORG_MEMBER" 10 ], 11 "teamIds": [], 12 "username": "wyatt.smith@example.com" 13 }