Sharing with users of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Reader

You may share workbooks with other users of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Reader. We’ll consider the options and note some differences in the following sections.

Sharing with Tableau Desktop users

Sharing a workbook with other Tableau Desktop users is fairly straightforward, but there are a few things to consider.

One of the major considerations is whether you will be sharing a packaged workbook (.twbx) or an unpackaged workbook (.twb). Packaged workbooks are single files that contain the workbook (.twb), extracts (.hyper), file-based data sources that have not been extracted (.xls, .xlsx, .txt, .cub, .mdb, and others), custom images, and various other related files. When you share a packaged workbook, you are sharing extracted and file-based data and images with the end-user. If you share an unpackaged workbook, the other Desktop user will need to connect to the data, have local copies of file-based data sources...