Sharing

Data apps

Whether you are part of a Starter, Pro, or Enterprise workspace, it's easy to share data apps publicly or privately with groups and individuals.

Share modal

The share modal is where you will grant access to members of your workspace or the public. You can find it in a number of locations.

Sharing a data app with your team

• Can view or edit makes the app viewable and editable by your team (limited by their team membership level).
• Can view makes the app viewable but not editable, even if the team members are editors or owners in the workspace.
• No access makes the app inaccessible to your team and to search queries in Observable

You can access the share modal when viewing a data app, using the floating island in the bottom-right corner of the page, or within the app's details page.

Default sharing level

Newly created data apps will default to being private to the team (except guests), and will appear on the team's homepage. You are prompted during the deploy process to make your app public or private, and you can change these settings after deploying through the share modal.

Group sharing

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Enterprise workspaces have the ability to share work with Groups, which are defined lists of users on a given workspace.

Searching for workspace members will also return Groups, allowing you to easily grant access to multiple workspace members. Like users, you can grant a group edit and/or view access to content. This has the advantage that any resources shared with that group will automatically be available to a new member assigned to that group. See our Groups documentation for more details.