Concept | Workspaces#

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Workspaces bring together everything you need for certain work initiatives to support clearer focus and more efficient workflows.

In Dataiku, this means that you can create a centralized collections of Dataiku or external resources that can be shared with a team of people for quick access.

Accessing workspaces#

You can find workspaces from the Applications menu in Dataiku. You’ll be able to see all of the workspaces that you belong to.

A screenshot highlighting where to access workspaces in Dataiku.

Tip

If creating and managing workspaces will be an important part of your role, you have the option of making the Workspaces dashboard your default Dataiku homepage.

To do this, click on your profile icon and go to Profile & Settings. Then, under the Homepage section, switch to the Workspaces radio button and click Save.

Workspace content#

You can easily create and customize workspaces from the workspace page. All workspaces are defined by their title and descriptions. Types of content you can add to your workspace include:

  • Datasets

  • Dashboards

  • Wiki articles

  • Web apps

  • Dataiku applications

  • Links

A Dataiku screenshot of workspace content options.

Tip

Flow items can be published to workspaces from directly within the Flow through the Publish action.

If there are many items in your workspace, you can favorite, filter, and search for items to improve findability.

Instance-level permissions#

Recall that group permissions are assigned at the instance level.

For workspaces, instance admins should assign Create workspaces and Publish on workspaces privileges to the appropriate groups of users. These two permissions are accessible under Administration > Security > Groups.

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Note

Instance admins can access and administer all projects and workspaces.

Project-level permissions#

At the project level, the project admin controls the scope of access they grant to their project to any Dataiku user. Project admins should grant Publish on workspaces privileges to designated users to let them share objects in workspaces.

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Workspace-level permissions#

Workspace-level permissions are defined by the workspace administrators. Different permissions can be assigned to either users or groups in the Workspace.

Role

Description

Admin

Can add/remove users and assign roles.

Contributor

Can contribute or remove content from projects into a workspace. They’ll need Publish on workspaces instance and project privileges to fully exercise their role.

Member

Has view access to whatever content has been shared into a workspace. They don’t have access to the originating projects unless granted separately by the project admin.

A Dataiku screenshot of workspace permission settings.

What’s next?#

This article described how Dataiku workspaces enable users and teams to have easy and instant access to relevant data and analytics objects from different projects on your instance.

Note

You can visit the reference documentation on Workspaces to learn more.