# How to use Nested Project Enhancements in Tableau Server & Online 2020.1

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2020-02-26
- **Format:** Video · 4 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (cloud, permissions, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-use-nested-project-enhancements-in-tableau-server-online-2020-1
- **Watch:** https://www.youtu.be/Xd6ZmES1DUQ

I walk through the enhanced nested project permission controls introduced in Tableau Server and Online 2020.1. I demonstrate the new content permissions setting, showing how to keep permissions customisable, lock them to a parent project, or lock the root while leaving nested projects free to be customised.

## Key takeaways

- The new content permissions setting in 2020.1 offers three behaviours: customisable, locked with nesting applied, and locked without nesting
- Leaving a project customisable means any content, including nested projects, can have its own permissions set
- Setting a project to locked with the checkbox ticked pushes permissions down to all nested projects, mirroring pre-2020 behaviour
- Unticking the lock option locks the root directory only, allowing nested projects to remain customisable for more flexible hierarchies

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/how-to-use-nested-project-enhancements-in-tableau-server-online-2020-1

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