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Expand Up @@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ See [Themes](/guides/data-apps/themes) for details.

Newly created apps are personal - only you can see them. Apps will initially appear in **Settings \> My apps.** To share an app with your team, add it to a space.

<Info>
**Viewing a data app requires at least the Interactive Viewer project role.** A chart or dashboard runs a fixed, predefined query - a plain **Viewer** sees the data the way it was set up, and nothing more. A data app is interactive: people change inputs, drill in, and explore the data on their own terms, which runs new queries on the fly. That kind of self-serve exploration is what the **Interactive Viewer** role governs (the same role needed to use Explore), so it's the minimum needed to open an app.
</Info>

Once an app is added to a space, it follows the same rules as everything else in that space:

- **Viewers** of the space can open the app and interact with it.
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