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Ownership Transfer

Transfer ownership of a presentation to another team member.

Overview

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When you need to hand off a presentation to someone else, you can transfer ownership to a collaborator; you stay on as a collaborator with edit access.

Share dialog, Team tab, showing the current owner with a Transfer button

When to Transfer Ownership

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Common scenarios:

  • Project handoff - Someone else is taking over
  • Leaving the organization - Hand your decks over before your account is deleted; deleting a user does not move or remove their presentations
  • Responsibility shift - New presenter or maintainer

Transferring Ownership

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Requirements

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  • Only the current owner of the presentation can transfer it.
  • The new owner must already be a collaborator on the presentation with edit or admin permission. Invite them first if they are not (see Sharing & Permissions).

Steps

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  1. Click Share in the editor toolbar; the Team tab opens
  2. In the collaborator list, click Transfer next to the owner
  3. Enter the email address of the new owner; the prompt lists the eligible collaborators. Click Continue
  4. Confirm with Transfer

What Changes

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  • The new owner becomes the owner of the presentation. If they were a collaborator, that entry is removed; they are the owner now.
  • You stay on the presentation as a collaborator with edit access. The new owner can change or remove that afterwards.
  • Other collaborators keep their permissions.
  • Workspace visibility, publishing and share links stay as they were. A published deck keeps its public address.
  • The transfer is recorded in the presentation’s activity.

Notification

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The new owner gets an in-app notification in the notification bell: “{your name} transferred ownership to you”, with “You are now the owner of “{title}”.” and a link to the presentation. No email is sent, and other collaborators are not notified.

After Transfer

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For the New Owner

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The new owner can do everything an owner can:

  • Edit, and manage collaborators and their permissions
  • Publish or unpublish
  • Change who in the workspace can find the deck
  • Transfer it again
  • Move it to the trash or delete it

For the Previous Owner

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The previous owner is now an edit collaborator: they can keep editing, but can no longer manage collaborators, delete the deck or transfer it. In the presentation list, the deck appears under Shared, unless they created it; a deck you created stays under Mine.

There is no bulk transfer: each presentation is transferred on its own, by its owner.

API

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The editor uses this endpoint of the app API (signed-in session, not an API key):

Terminal window
POST /api/presentations/{id}/transfer-ownership
Content-Type: application/json


{
  "newOwnerEmail": "newowner@example.com",
  "keepAsCollaborator": true
}

keepAsCollaborator is optional and defaults to true; with false, the previous owner loses access. The editor always keeps you on.

Response

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{
  "ok": true,
  "presentation": { "id": "abc123", "...": "..." },
  "previousOwner": "you@example.com",
  "newOwner": "newowner@example.com",
  "previousOwnerKeptAsCollaborator": true
}

The request fails with 403 if you are not the owner, and with 400 if the email is missing, is already the owner, or does not belong to a member of the organization.

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