Sharing a data source

Share Felt Servers, Cloud sources, and Raster infrastructure with custom permission settings and public or private access.

Share menu

To share a data source, open it from the Data sources section of the workspace homepage or in-map library and click the Share button in the source's header.

From this menu you can:

• invite collaborators directly by email,

• control workspace-wide access to the source, or

• change the permission of an existing member on the source.

The Global Library is visible to every workspace and has no sharing controls.

Sharing across the workspace

The user permission settings for sources are described below.

Setting	Description
None (private)	Only members directly invited to the source can access it. A lock icon appears on the source in the sidebar. The most secure setting.
View	Browse the source and read its data, including through Felt AI or MCP tools. View also allows members to add layers from the source to a map, assuming their seat permits map editing.
Edit	Control over the source itself: edit the source credentials or delete the source, view and write custom SQL queries against it, and manage other member's source permission.

There's also a fourth, higher permission — Source admin — initially granted to the creator of the source, though it can be shared with others. It includes everything Edit can do, plus the ability to change the source's default permission and invite other source admins. See Data source-level permissions for the full permissions model.

Invite collaborators by email

Type one or more addresses into the email field, pick a permission, and click Invite. Invitees who aren't already workspace members receive an invitation via email.