Hi @steff_horemans,
My guess is that the Free Edition is probably not the best place to demonstrate true external sharing.
Free Edition is positioned as a serverless-only, quota-limited, non-commercial environment, with one workspace, one metastore, and no access to the account console or account-level APIs. Also, there is already at least one community thread where someone hit recipient-permission issues with Delta Sharing on Free Edition, and the working assumption there was that full recipient management is not available in the free tier.
If your goal is just to demonstrate the concept, I'd probably simulate it instead..
- Use de-identified or synthetic patient data
- Show the provider/recipient/share flow conceptually
- Explain that in a full workspace this would normally be done through OpenSharing/Delta Sharing objects such as shares and recipients in Unity Catalog
Hope this helps.
If this answer resolves your question, could you mark it as โAccept as Solutionโ? That helps other users quickly find the correct fix.
Regards,
Ashwin | Delivery Solution Architect @ Databricks
Helping you build and scale the Data Intelligence Platform.
***Opinions are my own***