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id: 6852f9f1-b716-44ff-89d4-53e185eb9ec4
title: setMemberPosition
slug: /node/reference/video/room-session/set-member-position
description: setMemberPosition method for the RoomSession class.
max-toc-depth: 3
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[roomsession-41]: /docs/server-sdk/v4/node/reference/video/room-session

### setMemberPosition

* **setMemberPosition**(`params`): `Promise<void>`

Assigns a position in the layout to the specified member.

#### Parameters

<ParamField path="params" type="object" required>
  Object containing the parameters of the method.
</ParamField>

<Indent>
  <ParamField path="memberId" type="string">
    ID of the member to affect.
  </ParamField>

  <ParamField path="position" type="VideoPosition" required>
    Position to assign in the layout.
  </ParamField>
</Indent>

#### Returns

`Promise<void>`

#### Example

In this example, we wait for a room to start and then set the roomlayout to `"6x6"`.
When a second member joins the room, we set the position of that member to `"off-canvas"`.
This example assumes that there is a [`RoomSession`][roomsession-41]
already active and that members are joining the room.

```js
import { SignalWire } from "@signalwire/realtime-api";

// Initialize the SignalWire client
const client = await SignalWire({ project: "ProjectID Here", token: "Token Here" });

// Access video client from the main client
const videoClient = client.video;

// Setup listener for when a room starts
await videoClient.listen({
  onRoomStarted: async (roomsession) => {

    // Set the layout of the room
    roomsession.setLayout({
      name: "6x6",
    });

    // listens for when a member joins the room
    await roomsession.listen({

      onMemberJoined: async (member) => {
        console.log("Member joined", member.name);
        // Set position for the member
        roomsession.setMemberPosition({
          memberId: member.id,
          position: "off-canvas"
        });
      },
      onMemberUpdated: async (member) => {
        console.log(`Updated ${member.name} position`);
      },

      onRoomUpdated: async (room) => {
        console.log(`Room updated to ${room.layoutName}`);
      },
    });
  }
})
```