title: How to share twbx file so that other party doesn't have to have the excel files and can refresh the data?
body: <p>So my twbx has two data sources. One of them is a database connection (Customer SQL Query) joined with an excel file using data connection. The other data source is an excel file. </p>
  
  <p>When I try to refresh the data on tableau desktop and the file path for the excel files have changed, it asks me to specify the file path. I thought when you create an extract of a twb file a copy of data is stored in the tableau file. This is strange because another twbx file I created which also uses an excel file joined with database doesn't ask me for a file path every time I refresh the extracts. </p>
  
  <p>When the refresh happens, what I am really trying to do is just refresh the database connection, and its okay if the excel files stay the same. I saw this 
  post (<a href="http://drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org/o-extract-where-art-thou/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://drawingwithnumbers.artisart.org/o-extract-where-art-thou/</a>)  and applied its methods but they were of no use.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried to find differences between the two, and except for the fact that one uses an additional data source (not data connection) in form of an excel file, nothing really is different. </p>
  
  <p>Just to be more specific, this is not something in Tableau Server/Online, this is all happening in tableau desktop</p>