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Publish to Personal Spaces

In Tableau 23.1 you can finally publish straight from Desktop to your personal space, no more bouncing through a project first.

Tim Ngwena •27 March 2023 •1 min read •2 min watch •3.1K

Part ofWhat's new in Tableau 2023.1

Tableau 23.1 lets Desktop users publish workbooks directly to their personal space, rather than only through Web Edit
A personal space is a private playground where explorers and creators can publish content without making it public or placing it in a project
Admins can see that personal space content exists, though whether they can download and access it explicitly remains a grey area
Publishing is as simple as choosing the publish workbook option and selecting personal space as the destination, removing the need to publish to a project and then move it

0:00In 23.1, desktop users can publish straight

0:03to their personal spaces from Tableau

0:06Desktop.

0:06If you're wondering what a personal space

0:08is, this was introduced now probably just

0:11over a year ago.

0:12It's essentially a place where explorers

0:15and creators can publish their content to

0:17without

0:18necessarily making it public or putting in

0:20a project.

0:20It's essentially like a playground where

0:22you can put stuff that you don't want

0:23anyone to

0:24see.

0:25There's a few questions around that because

0:28admins can see that the content exists.

0:31I'm still trying to get to the bottom of

0:33whether an admin can download and access

0:35the content

0:36explicitly.

0:37There's a weird grey area that I need to

0:39dig into, but nonetheless, this is what my

0:41personal

0:42space looks like.

0:43You can see there's nothing there.

0:44Let's switch back to Tableau Desktop.

0:47When I go to publish, I'm just going to go

0:48ahead and hit the publish workbook option.

0:50It's really this simple.

0:52Just wait for the option to pop up.

0:54I'm on a Mac, so sometimes these things are

0:56a little bit slower because I don't think

0:58Tableau supports M1 Macs Philly yet.

1:00But there you go.

1:01There's a personal space.

1:02I'll select it, select superstore.

1:04Go ahead and hit publish.

1:05This will now push up the sample workbook

1:07to that personal space.

1:09When that is done, it should load up the

1:11workbook in a browser tab.

1:12It'll probably open up in another window,

1:14but what I'll do is I'll go back to the

1:15window

1:16that you can already see here.

1:17Let's just wait for this to finish, and

1:19then we can go ahead and check that.

1:21So here you can see that it's opened up the

1:24workbook.

1:25This always happens anyway.

1:26You can see that it's here.

1:27But the key thing to notice is that if you

1:29go to the breadcrumb on the top left, you

1:31can see it says personal space.

1:33I now have one item.

1:34If I go back to my browser tab and refresh

1:36the page, we should see there's the work

1:38book.

1:39So this is a nice quality of life

1:41improvement for creators who could only

1:43previously publish

1:44to their personal spaces when they were

1:46using WebEdit.

1:46Now that's possible with Tableau Desktop,

1:49which means you don't have to publish up to

1:51a project, then move it to your personal

1:53space.

1:54Really nice feature.

1:55Thanks for watching, and I'll catch you in

1:56the next video.

1:56Bye.

1:57[END]

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Tableau Desktop users can now publish Workbooks to their Personal Space. This will give creators a safe, private space to publish their Workbook content before sharing them with additional users.

Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:07 Publish to Personal Spaces in Tableau