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Sharing

Observable makes sharing your work with others easy and productive. Whether you are part of a Starter, Pro, or Enterprise workspace, you can directly share a notebook with selected individuals, allowing them to view and edit your project or notebook. If you are a team member, you can share your work with the entire team or only individuals on the team.

Users who receive an share invitation will receive an email message with an optional message from the person sharing.

Starter, Pro & Enterprise sharing

Starter workspaces

  • The share modal for a Starter workspaces allows you to:
    • Define access granted to other individuals (up to four).
      • Can edit makes the project or notebook viewable and editable by the specified individual.
      • Can view makes the project or notebook viewable but not editable by the specified individual.

Pro and Enterprise workspaces

  • The share modal for a Pro workspaces allows you to:
    • Define access granted to the public:
      • Can view makes the projects or notebook viewable by the public
      • Can view (unlisted) makes the projects or notebook viewable by the public but only if they know the URL
      • No access makes the projects or notebook invisible to the public and to search queries in Observable
    • Define access granted to your team
      • Can view or edit makes the projects or notebook viewable and editable by your team
      • Can view makes the projects or notebook viewable but not editable by your team
      • No access makes the projects or notebook invisible to your team and to search queries in Observable
    • Define access granted to specific team members
      • After specifying an individual team member, you can set their access to Can edit or Can view.

Guest roles

Notebooks have additional roles that allow you to grant notebooks access to users who are outside of your team.

  • Guest viewer: The person who needs to read, search and comment on team notebooks explicitly shared with them.
  • Guest editor: The person who needs edit notebooks explicitly shared with them. Guests are not able to create new notebooks, fork and suggest on notebooks, or update the sharing for other members on a notebook.

Moving up to a team workspace

Starter worksapces are limited to four users besides yourself. To share your work with more users, you will need to upgrade your workspace to a Pro or Enterprise workspace. See our pricing page for details.

Group Sharing

Enterprise workspaces have the ability to share work with Groups, which are defined lists of users on a given workspace. To learn more about how to setup and use groups, check out our Enterprise workspace settings..