Sharing tables and columns
By default, tables are only visible to administrators. Administrators and owners can share Can View or Can Edit privileges on tables with other users, who can further share them with others. If your organization is using multi-tenancy with Orgs, you can only share with other users in your specific Org.
When you share a table, you can share the entire table, or specific columns. For column level security (CLS), share only specific columns. For more information about CLS, see Data and object security.
Permissive or strict sharing
Use caution when sharing tables, because any objects created from that table will have dependencies on it and its underlying structure. Objects created from tables can include Worksheets, views, Answers, and Liveboards. This means that if a user wants to drop or modify a table, any object that depends upon it must be edited or removed first, to remove the dependency.
For this reason, it is a best practice to only grant the Edit permission on a table to a small number of users. If you want to prevent shares from also revealing the columns regardless of where it appears (Worksheets, Answers, and Liveboards), you can ask ThoughtSpot Support to enable a stricter behavior.
You can share a table or multiple tables from the Data tab, or share a single table from within the table that you want to share.
Share from the Data tab
To share a table, Worksheet, or view from the Data tab, follow these steps.
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Select Data on the top navigation bar.
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Hover over the dataset you want to share and select it by selecting the empty checkbox that appears.
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Select Share.
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If you are sharing a table, select Entire Table or Specific Columns. To use Column Level Security (CLS), select Specific Columns, and only share the columns the users or groups should have access to.
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If you select Specific Columns, select the column(s) you want to share, and add the users or groups you want to share the column(s) with. Use this option for Column Level Security (CLS). If you select Entire Table, skip to step 6.
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Select + Add users or groups and select the users and groups with whom you want to share.
Share from within the dataset
To share a table, Worksheet, or view from within the dataset, follow these steps.
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Navigate to the dataset you want to share.
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Select the more options icon
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Select the users or groups with whom you want to share.
You can only share the entire dataset. You cannot share individual columns. To share individual columns, share a table from the Data tab. You cannot share individual columns for Worksheets or views.
Specify permissions
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Configure the level of access by selecting from the dropdown list. You can select:
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Can View to provide read-only access. This enables viewing the data source’s data. If the data source is a table, Can View also enables defining Worksheets based on that data.
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Can Edit to allow modification. This enables renaming, modifying, or deleting the entire data source and adding or removing its columns.
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Select Add.
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Select Done.
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The Share settings updated notification appears on the bottom of your screen.
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