# Publish to Personal Spaces

> 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:** 2023-03-27
- **Format:** Video · 2 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Data visualisation, Tool strategy
- **Tools:** Tableau (desktop, server)
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/publish-to-personal-spaces
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oKaMOPVJ_A

I walk through a new feature in Tableau 23.1 that lets Desktop users publish workbooks straight to their personal space. I explain what a personal space is, then demonstrate publishing the sample superstore workbook to it from Tableau Desktop.

## Key takeaways

- Tableau 23.1 lets Desktop users publish workbooks directly to their personal space, rather than only through Web Edit
- A personal space is a private playground where explorers and creators can publish content without making it public or placing it in a project
- Admins can see that personal space content exists, though whether they can download and access it explicitly remains a grey area
- Publishing is as simple as choosing the publish workbook option and selecting personal space as the destination, removing the need to publish to a project and then move it

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/publish-to-personal-spaces

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