The SiteWise Monitor feature is not available to new customers. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. For more information, see [SiteWise Monitor availability change](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot-sitewise/latest/appguide/iotsitewise-monitor-availability-change.html)

# Assign project viewers
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As a project owner or portal administrator, you typically assign viewers to your project after you define a set of dashboards to provide a common view of asset properties and alarms to those viewers.

**Note**  
You must be a project owner or portal administrator to assign viewers to a project.<a name="add-viewers-project"></a>

**To assign viewers to a project**

1. In the navigation bar, choose the **Projects** icon.  
![\[The "Projects" icon in the navigation bar.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot-sitewise/latest/appguide/images/portal-navigation-projects-console.png)

1. On the **Projects** page, choose the project to which to assign viewers.  
![\[The "Projects" page with "Wind Farm 3" highlighted.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot-sitewise/latest/appguide/images/projects-portal-user-choose-project-console.png)

1. In the **Project viewers** section of the project details page, choose **Add viewers** if the project has no viewers, or **Edit viewers**.  
![\[The "Project viewers" section of a project page.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot-sitewise/latest/appguide/images/project-add-viewers-console.png)

1. In the **Project viewers** dialog box, select the check boxes for the users to be viewers for this project.  
![\[Shows the "Project viewers" dialog.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot-sitewise/latest/appguide/images/project-choose-viewers-console.png)
**Note**  
You can only add viewers if they're portal users. If you don't see a user listed, contact your AWS administrator to add them to the list of portal users.

1. Choose the **>>** icon to add those users as project viewers.

1. Choose **Save** to save your changes.

<a name="invite-viewers-project-intro"></a>Next, you can send emails to your project viewers so they can sign in and start exploring the dashboards in the project.<a name="invite-viewers-project"></a>

**To send email invitations to project viewers**

1. In the navigation bar, choose the **Projects** icon.  
![\[The "Projects" icon in the navigation bar.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot-sitewise/latest/appguide/images/portal-navigation-projects-console.png)

1. On the **Projects** page, choose the project to which to invite project viewers.  
![\[The "Projects" page with "Create project" highlighted.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot-sitewise/latest/appguide/images/projects-portal-user-choose-project-console.png)

1. In the **Project viewers** section of the project details page, select the check boxes for the project viewers to receive an email, and then choose **Send invitations**.  
![\[The "Project viewers" section of the project details page.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot-sitewise/latest/appguide/images/project-invite-viewers-console.png)

1. Your preferred email client opens, prepopulated with the recipients and the email body with details from your project. You can customize the email before you send it to the project viewers.