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Explore collaboration options

Sharing and collaboration can be crucial parts of your teamwork experience in Datalore. Read this topic to learn about your options.

Sharing options for notebooks and workspaces

Workspaces

  • You can share: your own workspaces and workspaces you have edit access to

  • You cannot share your Private workspace, but you can share individual notebooks from it.

Notebooks

  • Notebooks are shared automatically when you share a workspace.

  • You can share a specific notebook from your Private workspace.

  • You cannot share a notebook in a shared workspace with a user who has no access to that workspace. As a workaround, you can clone such a notebook to your Private workspace and share that clone with any user.

Sharing a workspace: access types

There are three access types you can choose when sharing a workspace from the user's Home page. Find the procedure in this topic.

  • View: most restricted access

  • Edit: access allowing to edit the workspace

  • Manage: full access that allows you to edit the workspace and manage access to it for other users

The table below compares View and Edit access types for shared workspace users.

Action

View access

Edit access

Share the workspace

No

Yes. When running the notebooks of the workspace, the owner's resources are consumed.

Create or upload notebooks

No

Yes.

Clone and copy notebooks

Yes. A notebook can only be cloned when opened in the editor.

Yes

Move notebooks to trash

No

Yes

Rename notebooks

No

Yes

View notebooks in the editor

Yes

Yes

Run or edit notebooks

The shared notebook must be cloned to the viewer's file system.

Yes

Export notebooks

Yes

Yes

View workspace and notebook attachments

Yes

Yes

Change workspace and notebook attachments

No

Yes

Create and edit workspace database connections

No

Yes

Attach database connections to the workspace notebooks

No. Can only view the database connection list and respective database schemas.

Yes

Create and execute SQL cells for connected databases

No

Yes

View notebook environment variables

Sharing a notebook: access types

You can share a notebook from your Private workspace by generating a link for viewing or editing it. Also, you can invite users by sending an invitation email. Both procedures are described in this topic.

You can choose from three access types:

  • View: most restricted access

  • Edit: access allowing to edit the workspace

  • Manage: full access that allows you to edit the workspace and manage access to it for other users, available when inviting by email

The table below compares View and Edit access types for shared notebook users. The access is granted when sharing the notebook as described in . The access to all notebooks is also granted when sharing the respective workspace from the user's Home page.

Action

View access

Edit access

Share the notebook

No

Yes. When running the notebook, the owner's resources are consumed.

Clone and copy the notebooks

Yes

Yes

Download the shared notebook

Yes

Yes

Rename the shared notebook

No

Yes

View the notebook in the editor

Yes

Yes

Run or edit the notebook

The notebook must be cloned to the viewer's own workspace.

Yes

Download the notebooks

Yes

Yes

View the notebook attachments

Yes

Yes

Create and execute SQL cells for the notebook's connected databases

No

Yes

In-editor collaboration

Datalore allows you to track actions of your real-time collaborators working on the shared notebook. Find more details in this topic.

Use comments to facilitate your collaboration on shared notebooks. Even users with view edit can leave comments and respond to comments made by other collaborators. Find more details in this topic.

Last modified: 11 October 2024
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