# Move assets into projects: New in Tableau 2022.3

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2022-11-15
- **Format:** Video · 13 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Tool strategy, Data engineering
- **Tools:** Snowflake; Tableau (catalog, data management, external assets, permissions, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/move-assets-into-projects-new-in-tableau-2022-3
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ceyNruHjE

I walk through a new feature in Tableau 2022.3 that lets you move external assets like databases and tables into project folders so they inherit project-level permissions. Along the way I explore how the permissions window changes once assets are moved, and I run into some unresolved questions about how to move assets back out again.

## Key takeaways

- In 2022.3 you can select a database under External Assets, choose Actions, and move it into a project so it's governed by that project's permissions.
- The 'move the tables' option carries any tables sitting inside the database across with it when you move the asset.
- Once moved, the permissions window switches to a project-style layout, whereas assets still locked to a database show a 'table permissions are locked for this database' message.
- With Data Management enabled you can trace assets through virtual connections and tables via data lineage.
- Removing an asset from the Tableau catalogue deletes the asset reference entirely and breaks anything connected to it, so it's not a safe way to move an asset back out of a project.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Filtering the external assets view
- 0:49 Moving a database into a project
- 1:21 Viewing moved assets and lineage
- 2:40 Managing permissions at project level
- 5:04 How permission styles change once moved
- 7:02 Trying to move assets back out
- 9:41 Removing an asset experiment
- 10:53 Open questions and wrap-up

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/move-assets-into-projects-new-in-tableau-2022-3

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