Artifacts

See definitions in Terminology section.

The Artifacts tab is a workspace-level library for the files you bring into KAWA. It gives you a single place to upload, store, preview, version, publish, and download files — PDFs, images, presentations, spreadsheets, text, application files, and other binaries — without leaving the platform.

Where sheets hold your modeled data and dashboards hold your live views, the Artifacts tab holds your files: the documents and deliverables you want to keep, version, and share with your team.

1. Creating an artifact

An artifact is created first as an empty container; you then add a file to it as its first version.

Click (+ Artifact) at the top right — or the (+) button at the top of the left panel — to open the Create artifact dialog. Enter a Name (required), then choose a Type from the dropdown: Application, PDF, Image, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Binary, or Text. Click (Create).

The new artifact appears in the list, labeled with its type (for example, POWERPOINT), and opens with an empty preview reading No versions yet. Add a file to populate it — see Versions below.

2. Viewing an artifact

Click an artifact's name to open its detail page. The detail page has three parts.

2.1 Details panel

The left of the detail page summarizes the artifact:

• Creator — the user who created it.

• Access — the artifact's current visibility (managed in Sharing and permissions).

• Created and Updated — the creation and last-modification timestamps.

2.2 Versions panel

Below the details, the VERSIONS panel lists every version of the artifact (v1, v2, and so on), each with its timestamp and author. The current version is marked with a check. Select any version to preview it, or use the (+) button to add a new version (see section Versions).

2.3 Preview panel

The main area previews the selected version's contents. For supported types, KAWA renders the file directly in the browser — for example, a text data file is shown as a table, and a presentation is shown slide by slide. Use the zoom controls (− / +, the percentage readout, and (Reset)) to adjust the view. The preview header offers these actions:

• Download — save the current version to your computer in its original format.

• Publish — choose a version and a visibility level for the artifact (see section Publishing).

• Open — open the current version in a new browser tab.

• Details — show or hide the details and versions panel.

3. Versions

An artifact keeps a full history of its versions. A new artifact starts empty (No versions yet); the file you add first becomes v1.

To add a version, click the (+) button in the VERSIONS panel to open the Add new version dialog. Upload the file — drop it onto the file area or click (Choose a file); the file chooser lists only files that match the artifact's type. Once a file is added, it appears as a chip with its type, name, and size, and an optional Description field appears for this version. Click (Add version) to save: KAWA stores it as a new version and keeps the previous ones.

This lets you update a file — a revised report, an updated deck, a corrected dataset — without losing what it replaced. The latest version is shown by default, and you can select any earlier version to preview or download it.

4. Publishing

Publishing controls who can open an artifact and through which link. Click Publish in the detail header to open the Publish artifact dialog.

Choose the Version to publish (for example, Latest version (v1)), then set the visibility:

Visibility	Who can open it
Restricted	No shareable link — only reachable inside the workspace.
Signed-in users	Anyone signed in who has the link can open it.
Anyone with the link	No sign-in required — anyone with the link can open it.

Click (Apply) to save. The artifact list shows the current state in the Published column.