HUDA — Hub User & Deployment Administration

Bulk-manage users across Autodesk Forma projects via CSV upload — add, remove, and update roles at scale with dry-run previews, a live progress queue, and per-row error tracking.

The Problem

Every Autodesk Hub admin knows the friction. A contractor joins the project — you open each Forma project individually, find the user, assign the role, close the tab, move to the next project, repeat. When they leave, you do it all again in reverse. A subcontractor with access to twelve projects takes twelve operations to onboard and another twelve to remove when the engagement ends.

With dozens of active projects and a team that rotates every quarter, this compounds into hours of manual work per cycle. It's slow, it's error-prone, and it scales with headcount in exactly the wrong direction. A permission gets missed, an old contractor retains access, an audit finds gaps — and the root cause is always the same: the tooling forces you to work one project at a time.

HUDA is built to eliminate that entirely.

What HUDA Does

HUDA connects directly to your Autodesk Forma environment via the APS Admin API. You prepare a CSV — one row per user-project pair, with columns for email, role, and project ID — and HUDA turns that flat file into a structured operation queue, validates every entry against Forma's API constraints, and presents a complete change diff before touching anything.

Once you confirm, the queue executes project by project with a live progress indicator and a per-row result badge. Every operation resolves to a clear outcome — added, updated, removed, or failed — and failed rows can be retried individually without restarting the entire batch.

Key Features

• Bulk operations via CSV: Add, remove, or update roles for any number of users across any number of projects in a single upload. Required columns: email, role, project_id. Optional: first_name, last_name.
• Multi-project selector: Browse your Hub's full project list with checkboxes and search. Select two projects or two hundred — the scope is yours to define before any data is touched.
• Dry-run preview: Before a single API call is made, HUDA shows a complete change diff: every user being added, removed, or role-changed, grouped by project. Review, confirm, or cancel cleanly.
• Live operation queue: A real-time queue with per-row progress and status badges. Retry individual failures without restarting the full batch.
• CSV snapshot export: Export the current user-role state across all selected projects. Useful for audits, onboarding new admins, or seeding the next import file.
• Secure APS OAuth: Authenticates via Autodesk Platform Services using both 2-legged and 3-legged OAuth flows — the same standard used across the Autodesk ecosystem.

 

Who It's For

• Hub Admins managing permission cycles for large, rotating teams across many concurrent projects
• BIM Managers replicating permission structures across project phases or portfolios
• IT & Operations teams running access reviews or syncing Forma access against HR system exports
• Contractors & Consultants onboarding and offboarding project teams without involving each project owner individually

 

Requirements

• An active Autodesk Forma or Autodesk® BIM 360® account
• Hub Admin privileges in your organization
• An APS application with the required admin scopes (setup guide included)
• A modern browser — no desktop install required

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