# Personal Spaces in Tableau Server & Online: New in Tableau 2021.3

> 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:** 2021-09-09
- **Format:** Video · 10 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (catalog, cloud, online, personal spaces, server, web authoring)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/personal-spaces-in-tableau-server-online-new-in-tableau-2021-3-6
- **Watch:** https://youtu.be/FbIoF_BNzbE

I walk through Personal Spaces, a new feature added to Tableau Online and Tableau Server in the 2021.3 release. I show how to create and save workbooks into a personal space, move existing content into it, and explain the privacy and admin implications, including how the Tableau Catalog still indexes this content.

## Key takeaways

- Personal spaces give explorers and authors a private place to save web-authored workbooks without publishing to a shared project where others can see them.
- At launch only workbooks are supported in personal spaces, not draft flows, and extract refreshes can't be newly scheduled while content sits there.
- Site admins can see that a personal-space workbook exists and can manage or delete it, but they cannot open or edit the content inside.
- Moving content from a project into a personal space makes it private and disables collaboration, so alerts and subscriptions other users rely on will fail.
- The Tableau Catalog continues to index personal-space content, so admins still get lineage and field metadata even though they can't view the workbook itself.

## Chapters

- 0:00 What personal spaces are
- 1:20 Creating and saving a workbook
- 2:23 Admin visibility via Tableau Catalog
- 4:07 Moving content into a personal space
- 5:42 Privacy rules and documentation
- 8:54 Licensing questions and wrap-up

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/personal-spaces-in-tableau-server-online-new-in-tableau-2021-3-6

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