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Configure Sharing

You can share objects that you have created with other users or all users of Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta Enterprise Edition. This section provides information on how to configure it. For more information on sharing, see Overview of Sharing.

Enable

By default, sharing is enabled. The following parameters can be modified to enable/disable aspects of sharing.

You apply this change through the Workspace Settings Page. For more information, see Platform Configuration Methods.

Parameter

Default

Description

Enable Flow Sharing feature

true

Enable/disable the ability to share your flows with other users.

You can apply this change through the Admin Settings Page (recommended) or trifacta-conf.json. For more information, see Platform Configuration Methods.

Parameter

Default

Description

webapp.enableCredentialsSharing
true

Enable/disable the sharing of credentials.

Note

If this parameter is set to false and flow sharing is enabled, all users must provide their own credentials for each owned or shared connection.

  • If this parameter is set to true, then a connection's credentials can be shared at the connection owner's discretion.

  • Later, if this parameter is set to false, the credentials of a previously shared connection are still shared, and you cannot choose whether or not to share credentials for pre-existing connections. You also cannot share credentials for any newly created connections.

Access

Note

In Designer Cloud Powered by Trifacta Enterprise Edition, any user who is granted the admin role is also granted the workspace admin role, which enables owner-level access to some types of user-created objects in the workspace. See Workspace Admin Permissions.

Enable Flow Sharing feature

webapp.enableCredentialsSharing

Description

true

true

Flows: Users can share flows and connections. When flows are shared, the connections and their associated credentials are automatically shared.

Shared connections can be used to import and/or publish data like owned connections.

Connections: Connections can be shared.

true
false

Flows: Users can share flows. When flows are shared, their connections are also shared, but new users must provide their own credentials to access the data.

When new users provide credentials, the shared connections can be used to import and/or publish data like owned connections.

Connections: When connections are shared, credentials must be provided by the new user.

false
true

Flows: Flows cannot be shared.

Connections: Connections can be shared. The sharing user can choose whether or not to share credentials.

false
false

Flows: Flows cannot be shared.

Connections:When connections are shared, credentials must be provided by the new user.

Configure

Flows are shared through the Flow View page. See Flow View Page.

Credentials are shared through the Connections page. See Connections Page.

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