# Sharing a Notebook

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*Check out the given walk-through on how to share a Notebook.*
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***Sharing a Notebook***
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* Navigate to the ***Notebook*** tab for a DS Lab project.
* Select a Notebook from the list.
* Click the ***Share*** icon.

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* The ***Share Notebook*** page opens.
* Select a tab out of ***USER***, ***USER GROUP***, and ***EXCLUDE USER*** tabs.
* Search for a specific user or user group to share the Notebook.
* Select a User or user group from the respective tabs (as displayed in the given image for the USER tab).
* Use the single arrow mark to move the user (By selecting the icon containing both the arrows will move all the users).

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* The selected user or user group will get moved to the right hand side box.
* Click the ***Save*** option.

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* A notification message appears, and the Notebook gets shared.

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* Login to the Platform using the credentials of the user to whom the Notebook is shared and navigate to the ***DS Lab*** module.
* The ***Shared Project*** gets indicated as shared in the Project list.&#x20;
* Click the shared project to open the **Notebook** tab. The Shared Notebook gets listed in the Notebook list.

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* *The **Project** gets shared by default with the concerned **Notebook** while using the **Share** function for a Notebook.*

* *The **Shared Project** even if it is shared by default with a Notebook **remains*** ***Active by default** for the user to access and open the Notebook tab provided inside it.*
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* Access the shared ***Notebook*** from the Notebook tab.

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1. The user with whom the project has been shared appears in the right-side box.
2. If the project is shared with a user group, then all the users under that group appear under the right-side box.
3. If the ***EXCLUDE USER*** tab is selected the user gets excluded from the rights to access the Notebook.
4. A ***Shared Project*** will not have permissions to ***Share***, ***Edit,*** ***Delete or creating versions of it*** by the user to whom it has been shared.
5. A ***Shared Notebook*** will not have permissions to ***Share*** or ***Delete*** by the user to whom it has been shared, but ***Export***, ***Register***, ***Push into VCS,*** and ***Pull from VCS*** actions are available for a shared Notebook.
6. *Refer the* [***Data Science Lab Quick Start Flow***](https://docs.bdb.ai/data-science-lab-4/data-science-lab-quick-start-flow) *page to get an overview of the **Data Science Lab** module in nutshell.*&#x20;
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