Spaces

Spaces are kind of like folders. All saved charts and dashboards exist in a Space and can only be in one Space at a time.

To access Spaces, you can either select a Space from the drop-down list in Browse or you can click on the Lightdash icon and select your Space from the homepage.

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Moving items between Spaces

To move a saved chart, dashboard or space between Spaces, you can click on the three dot menu (...) to the right of the item and pick the Move action. Or select items using checkboxes on the left and click Move to Space.

You can also add items to a Space from within the Space. Just click on the Add button on the space page.

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Updating and deleting Spaces

You can rename or delete your Space from All Spaces view or on the homescreen by clicking on the three-dot menu (...) for the Space.

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Managing access to a Space

By default, when you create a Space, it is restricted so only you can access it (however, if you create a nested Space, it automatically inherits permissions from its parent). You can edit a Space to make it Restricted Access or Public Access.

To edit access to a Space, navigate into the Space, then click the share button. From there, you can choose to make a space Restricted Access or Public Access (Only top level space access can be edited, nested spaces inherit permissions from their parent spaces).

By default, in public spaces, a user’s space permissions are inherited from their project permissions. For example, if I’m a project viewer, I will get Can View access to a Space.

There are three space roles: Full Access, Can Edit, Can View

For more details about actions you can take in a Space based on your role, check out this table.

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Restricted Access Spaces

Only admins and members that are invited to a Space with Restricted Access have access to it.

For example, here I have a Space with Restricted Access. Only admins and the invited members have access to this Space. Katie, Filipe and Marshall have inherited Full Access because they are organization admins. Priyanka was invited to the space, so she has Can View access to the space. No one else in Lightdash can see or interact with the content in this Space unless they’re invited or become an admin.

Only users with Full Access permissions to a Restricted Space can invite other users to that Space.

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Public Spaces

Everyone who has access to your project has access to a Public space.

For example, here I have a Space with Public access. Everyone who has access to my Project, “Lightdash analytics”, will get access to the content in my public space.

By default, you inherit your space permissions in a public space from your project permissions.

So, if someone is an editor in my project, they will have Can Edit permissions in my Space. If someone is a viewer in my project, they will have Can View permissions in my Space. For more details about actions you can take in a Space based on your role, check out this table.

Users with Full Access to the space can change a user’s space permissions.

In Public spaces (just like in restricted spaces), users who have Full Access to the space can change other users’ space permissions (except admins). Users cannot be removed from Public Spaces. To make a user have no access to a space, you must change the space from Public to Restricted.