Transferring Content Ownership

Problem

You need to transfer content ownership from one user to another. You might need to do this after a user’s account has been deactivated.

Solution

Identify all content owned by a specified user (the “source” user), and change the owner to another user (the “destination”) user.

You’ll need the GUID for the source and destination user accounts. See Finding Users and Viewing User Information for details.

Python
R

from posit import connect

SOURCE_USER_GUID = "42c10ef7-8161-4d5b-b559-7f8a28a0cee3"
DESTINATION_USER_GUID = "6b80279a-fab0-4f46-83bd-86668eb7a66c"

client = connect.Client()

content_to_transfer = client.content.find(owner_guid = SOURCE_USER_GUID)
for item in content_to_transfer:
    item.update(owner_guid = DESTINATION_USER_GUID)

Confirm that the workflow succeeded by checking that the source user no longer owns any content on Connect.

>>> len(client.content.find(owner_guid = SOURCE_USER_GUID)) == 0
True

library(connectapi)

SOURCE_USER_GUID <- "42c10ef7-8161-4d5b-b559-7f8a28a0cee3"
DESTINATION_USER_GUID <- "6b80279a-fab0-4f46-83bd-86668eb7a66c"

client <- connect()

content_to_transfer <- client |>
  get_content(owner_guid = SOURCE_USER_GUID)

for (guid in content_to_transfer$guid) {
  client |>
    content_item(guid) |>
    content_update_owner(DESTINATION_USER_GUID)
}

Confirm that the workflow succeeded by checking that the source user no longer owns any content on Connect.

> client |>
+   get_content(owner_guid = SOURCE_USER_GUID) |>
+   nrow()

[1] 0