With the introduction of “comment-only” projects in Asana, a user’s membership in a project comes with associated permissions. These permissions (i.e., whether a user has full access to the project or comment-only access) are accessible through the project memberships endpoints described here.

ProjectMembershipCompact

A Compact object reflects the default fields returned after a successful API request. See input/output options to include more fields in the response.

Property	Type	Description
`gid`	string	Globally unique identifier of the resource, as a string.
`resource_type`	string	The base type of this resource.
`user`	object	A user object represents an account in Asana that can be given access to various workspaces, projects, and tasks.
`user`.`gid`	string	Globally unique identifier of the resource, as a string.
`user`.`resource_type`	string	The base type of this resource.
`user`.`name`	string	Read-only except when same user as requester. The user’s name.

{
  "gid": "12345",
  "resource_type": "project_membership",
  "user": {
    "gid": "12345",
    "resource_type": "user",
    "name": "Greg Sanchez"
  }
}

ProjectMembership

Property	Type	Description
`gid`	string	Globally unique identifier of the resource, as a string.
`resource_type`	string	The base type of this resource.
`user`	object	A user object represents an account in Asana that can be given access to various workspaces, projects, and tasks.
`user`.`gid`	string	Globally unique identifier of the resource, as a string.
`user`.`resource_type`	string	The base type of this resource.
`user`.`name`	string	Read-only except when same user as requester. The user’s name.
`project`	object	A project represents a prioritized list of tasks in Asana or a board with columns of tasks represented as cards. It exists in a single workspace or organization and is accessible to a subset of users in that workspace or organization, depending on its permissions.
`project`.`gid`	string	Globally unique identifier of the resource, as a string.
`project`.`resource_type`	string	The base type of this resource.
`project`.`name`	string	Name of the project. This is generally a short sentence fragment that fits on a line in the UI for maximum readability. However, it can be longer.
`write_access`	string	Whether the user has full access to the project or has comment-only access.

{
  "gid": "12345",
  "resource_type": "project_membership",
  "user": {
    "gid": "12345",
    "resource_type": "user",
    "name": "Greg Sanchez"
  },
  "project": {
    "gid": "12345",
    "resource_type": "project",
    "name": "Stuff to buy"
  },
  "write_access": "full_write"
}