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# Publishing a Data Sheet

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*Check out the given illustration on how to Publish a Data Sheet to the Platform homepage.*
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***Publishing a Data Sheet to the Platform Homepage***
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The user can publish a Data Sheet by clicking the ***Publish*** icon.

* Navigate to the ***Data Sheets*** list.
* Select a Data Sheet from the Data Sheets list (E.g., Sample Data Sheet in the following image).
* Click the ***Publish*** icon for the selected Data Sheet.

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* The ***Publish Datasheet*** drawer opens.
* Select either **User** or **User group** tab to share the published Data Sheet (Use the **Exclude User** tab if you want to exclude any user from the rights to access a data sheet).
* Click the ***Save*** option.​
* A confirmation message appears as shown below.​

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* Another confirmation message appears to inform that the datasheet has been updated successfully.
* The selected ***Data Sheet*** gets published on the ***My Documents*** space of all the selected user/s.

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