# Can i have multiple user groups assigned to 1 project?

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [December 12, 2022, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/can-i-have-multiple-user-groups-assigned-to-1-project/67492 "2022-12-12T11:42:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![hewking32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@hewking32](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hewking32)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/can-i-have-multiple-user-groups-assigned-to-1-project/67492/1 "2022-12-12T11:42:34Z")

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Hi  
Is it possible to have multiple user groups and multiple idenity providers assigned to 1 project at the same time?

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**Author:** ![pascal.fragnoud](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pascal.fragnoud/32/24728_2.png) [@pascal.fragnoud](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pascal.fragnoud)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/can-i-have-multiple-user-groups-assigned-to-1-project/67492/2 "2022-12-12T12:24:36Z")

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I don't think you can, but you can assign a failover user group to another group.

example:  
We have customers `Foo` and `Bar`, with user groups `Foo_users` and `Bar_users`.  
We also have an internal group, for devs and integrators and whatnot, let's call it `Internal_users`  
We want our customers to be able to log in to their projects, but we also want to be able to log in without putting ourselves in customers' groups.  
So we put `Internal_users` as a failover for `Foo_users` and `Bar_users`, and now we can log in to every project.

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**Author:** ![hewking32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@hewking32](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hewking32)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/can-i-have-multiple-user-groups-assigned-to-1-project/67492/3 "2022-12-12T14:09:40Z")

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That's great idea and it did the trick for me so thank you.  
Just to be sure - this trick with failover user group will only work for 2 groups or can it be daisy chained to higher number of user groups ? eg.  
group a has failover group b  
group b has failover group c  
etc etc

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**Author:** ![pascal.fragnoud](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pascal.fragnoud/32/24728_2.png) [@pascal.fragnoud](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pascal.fragnoud)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/can-i-have-multiple-user-groups-assigned-to-1-project/67492/4 "2022-12-12T14:10:32Z")

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I think you can chain them, but I'm not entirely sure. To be tested.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/can-i-have-multiple-user-groups-assigned-to-1-project/67492/5 "2022-12-12T16:20:42Z")

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User source failover can be arbitrarily nested/linked.