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Harvest ACTION

Create User Assignment

Assign a user to a project. Use Get Projects to find a project ID, and List Users to find user IDs. Example: call with projectId and userId set to staff that person on the project. See the documentation.
  • Action
  • Writes data
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Harvest account once, then configure and run Create User Assignment from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "harvest-create-user-assignment",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    harvest: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    accountId: "Account ID",
    projectId: "Project ID",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Create User Assignment inputs
Property Type Description
accountId Account ID string
Your Harvest account ID, e.g. 1234567. Run List Account ID Options to find it.
Required
projectId Project ID string
Free-form project ID, e.g. 14308069. Run Get Projects first to find valid IDs.
Required
userId User ID string
Free-form user ID, e.g. 1782959. Run List Users first to find valid IDs.
Required
isActive Is Active boolean
Whether the user assignment is active.
Optional
isProjectManager Is Project Manager boolean
Whether the user is a project manager.
Optional
useDefaultRates Use Default Rates boolean
Whether to use the user's default rate.
Optional
hourlyRate Hourly Rate string
Custom hourly rate, decimal, e.g. 150 or 150.00. Run Get User Assignment to see the current rate.
Optional
budget Budget string
Budget used when budget_by is person, decimal, e.g. 5000 or 5000.00. Run Get User Assignment to see the current budget.
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
harvest-create-user-assignment
Version
0.0.1
App
Harvest
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
No
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes