What are workspaces?

You might use Datawrapper at work, for personal projects, or as part of a volunteer group. Workspaces create a clean separation between those different environments, making it easier to collaborate more closely with different groups of colleagues — and to keep a private space just for you.

All your teams, folders, and visualizations in Datawrapper now belong to a particular workspace. If you’re a member of multiple workspaces, you can switch between them at any time using the menu in the top-right corner.

If you mostly use Datawrapper by yourself, then workspaces won’t be a big deal for you — in fact, you can probably stop reading here. But if you use Datawrapper to collaborate with other people, workspaces will make that job a lot easier. Read on to learn how!

All your teams in one place

If you use Datawrapper with colleagues, you’ve probably already been using teams. A team is basically a shared folder of visualizations, with the ability to choose settings and preferences for all visualizations in the team. But this system gets unwieldy when your organization is large enough to need more than one team: Up to now, you would have had to recreate those settings and reinvite all members to every new team.

In a workspace, your organization’s teams now live under a single roof. From your workspace’s settings, you can create new teams and view and edit all existing ones in a single overview. If you use a paid plan, all teams will automatically receive the features of your chosen plan level.

Apply settings globally (or go your own way)

Datawrapper teams offer many customization options, from your preferred visualization size to your default output locale. With workspaces, you can keep everyone in sync by defining workspace-wide settings for all teams. If some teams have different needs, you can override workspace settings on a case-by-case basis.

Open teams to your whole organization

You can choose to set a team as public, which means that all members of your workspace will be able to see and join it on their own. Other teams will stay private, only visible to colleagues who have been invited by a team administrator.

Manage members across the workspace

Your workspace members page offers a bird’s-eye view of every person with access to the workspace and its associated teams. You can add and remove people with one click — no need to go through every team’s settings individually to add or remove a team member.

Instead of a single team owner, workspaces are managed jointly by any number of workspace admins, making it easy to share responsibility for membership, billing, visualizations setting, and more.

This update makes it easier to collaborate in Datawrapper, so your team can focus on creating visualizations — not managing access. If you have any questions about workspaces, your account and team setup, or anything else, don’t hesitate to reach out to support@datawrapper.de.