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Removed permission create workspace - WHY?????

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Joe_Blackwell1
Level 2

9/14/18

We had built a series of curated workspaces that gave our end users a set of carefully selected projects to be able to interrogate the data. They restricted the projects to simple sets of data making it easy for our users and also restricted them having access to the full set of dimensions which we didn't want them to have.#

We did and do not want our non analyst community to be able to create their own workspaces but rather use the ones we had created for them. They were pre-built, simple to use and controlled.

What you have done now is open up the full workspace to everyone. We wouldn't have dreamed of giving our non-analysts access to Ad-Hoc analysis yet we are now giving them access to create uncurated projects in the more powerful workspace with the full range of dimensions.

Why have you done this???

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Andrew_Wathen_
Community Advisor

2/6/19

Hi Eric,

Thanks for reaching out.  In terms of this particular issue, I have to admit that losing this control has not been as bad as I thought it would be (Although, if Adobe's reading this I'd still like to get it back!)

From the start of our self-service journey communication with and education of the people we've been opening up workspace to has been key.  This put us in a good position to deal with this loss of control.  So although we have had some things crop up as a result, generally speaking we've been able to manage it.

And if by 'going down a similar road' you mean using Workspace to democratize your digital analytics data throughout your company, I would strongly encourage you to continue   Despite the odd frustration, it's worked really well for us.

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justinj1698984
Level 1

10/23/23

We too at NRG are feelign the pain of non restricted workspace creation. We went originally on a path of embracing teaching users and we found out that 80% learned enough to be dangerous and were.  They would learn a little, think they know how to do things and then create their own workspaces and share with business leaders who made decisions. The analytics were often incorrect more so than correct and we had no visibility to users doing this. no way to receive notifications, no way to know unless we just happenned to stumble on the reports or hear about them in a meeting and realize they were wrong. We would love and need to restrict our users from having "Create" Project permissions. We have tried share to anyone - which is fantastic but users can't bread down an existing report easily and neither can they "filter", sort yes, a table's data making it so hard to find data in a table. We also tried read only on a report but then they can't even change the date range wihtout it being a lot of work on us.  

 

Please enable a Create Project permission so we can remove that from users.

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