Sharing my dashboard/workbook with others without sharing my data in Tableau Online/Public?

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Tae J. Kwon picture Tae J. Kwon · May 1, 2015 · Viewed 13.4k times · Source

I have purchased Tableau Online to share my workbooks with a specific group of people without providing an option to download the actual data I used to create them. But I figured that other users would also need a license to view/edit my workbooks..

My initial plan was to share my published workbooks and put them on my website so that others (that I specify) can VIEW the workbook without offering them a privilege of downloading the data. Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated...

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AustinDahl picture AustinDahl · May 2, 2015

When you publish your workbook to online specify permissions so that users - cannot download the workbook - cannot edit the workbook - cannot view the underlying data

If you give your audience accounts with only viewing permission and you have those restricted permissions for workbooks, then you can simply send your audience links and they will see the visualizations in their browser without having to download workbooks. Even if they did download the workbooks, their accounts would be prevented from looking any deeper into the data than your workbooks show.

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