Sharing with users of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Reader
Often, you'll want to share your dashboards and data stories with other Tableau users. There are some considerations for sharing with other users of Tableau Desktop and some different considerations for sharing with users of Tableau Reader.
Sharing with Tableau Desktop users
Sharing a workbook with other Tableau Desktop users is fairly straightforward, but there are a few things to consider.
One of the major considerations is whether you will be sharing a packaged workbook (.twbx) or an unpackaged workbook (.twb). Packaged workbooks are single files that contain the workbook (.twb), extracts (.tde), file-based data sources that have not been extracted (.xls, .xlsx, .txt, .cub, .mdb, and so on), custom images, and various other related files.
To share with users of Tableau Desktop, do this:
- You may share either a packaged (
.twbx) or unpackaged (.twb) workbook by simply sharing the file with another user who has the same or newer...
