Getting the most out of the Coda Admin API

Coda Admin API - What, Why, When and How

Visualize your workspace

Automate monitoring

Run admin processes

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Coda Admin API - What, Why, When and How

Lionel Nyange

The

Coda Admin API⁠

is used by Coda admins to access user data, and Coda workspace and organization controls. It is intended to work in tandem with the in-product controls you are already familiar with. To access the API, we recommend using the coda-built

Coda Admin Pack⁠

, which acts as a UI layer to the API. The pack can be used to simply view data, or to build yourself a full, custom admin app.

Video overview

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When to use in-product controls versus Admin API

The in-product control panel and the Coda Admin API are both fantastic ways to view and action data - depending on the complexity of your task, you may opt for one over the other.

In-product control panel

The in-app Workspace settings and Organization settings control panel, is the most convenient place to view org info and user info, adjust security settings and configure settings.

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Use the in-product controls to...

Manage members and see usage analytics for workspace members

See and transfer docs owned by deactivated users

See and manage AI usage

Coda Admin API

For building custom use cases, use the

Coda Admin API⁠

As stated above, we recommend accessing the Coda API through the Coda API pack. The pack acts like a UI layer to the Admin API and gives admins realtime information on users, docs, folders, Packs, and activity in their organization.

If you want to connect to the API directly check out the

Admin API documentation⁠

for details on the correct end points (and more)

Use the Admin API to...

Export information on users, docs, packs, folders for detailed analysis.

View all the docs that have Packs in them

Easily view and export audit logs (the Pack is a more user-friendly way to get this info from the Admin API)

See all folders in the org

Change permissions on any doc

Coda Admin Pack Examples

In the rest of this doc, we showcase 3 examples of how to use the Coda Admin Pack —each is a step-up in complexity.

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Visualize your workspace⁠

: A simple way to see key workspace data and manipulate it.

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Automate monitoring⁠

: A set of automations to make your admin life easier.

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Run admin processes⁠

: Build yourself a full-fledged admin app.

When you are ready to try for yourself, simply

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