Viewing and sharing workbook data
Tableau provides a couple of ways to share a workbook for an interactive experience with users or the underlying data as a visual or a table.
Sharing a workbook as a file or on a server
A Tableau desktop file is either a .twb or an XML document that contains all the language of the visualization but contains no external data or images, whereas .twbx is a packaged file that includes the .twb file and the extracted data, images, and other related external files. If you want to share a workbook with a person who has no access to the data, you will have to share a .twbx file. However, a .twbx file requires extracted data and can be quite large, depending on the size of the data it contains, as it will also contain images and related data.
In a work environment, it is more common to share the workbooks in an on-premises Tableau Server or Tableau-hosted (but site-administered) Tableau Cloud. Although this is a desktop exam, you will require a very...
