Tableau’s project leaders and owner have super powerful built-in privileges. The intent of this project serial is to help project leaders/owner/admins understand and leverage Tableau features better. Everything discussed here applies to both Tableau serve and online unless specified.
- Project Leaders vs owner
- What project leader can do
- Project leader/owner permissions in nested projects
- Locked or customizable project
- Common use cases of locked project
- Publishing to nested project
- How to create ‘Tableau Public’ project within your firewall
- How to create ‘Private’ project for every publisher
- How to automate top level project creation
- How to plan your project structure
Differences between Project Leaders vs Owner
Project owner is an individual users who owns anything and everything about the project.
The Project Leader provides a way to allow multiple users administrative access to a project, its child projects, and all workbooks and data sources in those projects.
High Level Difference : project owner vs leader vs admins
- Only admins can create top level projects.
- Whoever created the project becomes owner by default after project created
- Strongly recommended admin to change the owner to project requestor after project created
- Project owner can add project leaders
Key differences between leader and owner:
- Owner is individual user while leader can be user or group
- Owner can delete top level project while leader can’t
- Owner can change the owner while leader can’t
- Owner will receive access request notification for locked project while leader will not
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