Share a Dashboard or Self-Service Report with Users

Your users can share dashboards easily amongst themselves in a user-friendly manner. Allow them to grant and revoke VIEWER, COMMENTER, or EDITOR access level to a dashboard for sharing. When a user shares a dashboard, the users who receive it can access the underlying visuals and sources used in the dashboard. See Shared Access - Viewers.

Control the visibility of this feature in embedded mode by enabling or disabling Share Dashboard in the dashboard interactivity settings.

Share dashboards with:

• Existing users in a non-tenant environment.
• Existing users and groups within a tenant, and optionally with everyone in a tenant using the Share with everyone tab. You must enable dashboard sharing in your tenant environment. See Server-Level Variables.
• As an administrator, you can filter users who can receive a dashboard using the recipient rules API. See Configure Recipient Rules.

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Share a Dashboard or Self-Service Report

1. Log in as a user who can share dashboards (Manage Dashboard Permissions privilege). Your user account must meet one of the following conditions:

   • Access as the OWNER of a dashboard or self-service report - the user who created it and has READ, WRITE, and DELETE permissions for it.
   • Access as the EDITOR of a dashboard or self-service report - the user who can edit and has READ and WRITE permissions for it.
   • In a group with the Administer Dashboards privilege.

2. Open the dashboard or report you wish to share from the list of available dashboards or reports.

3. Select Share Dashboard or Share Report icon. The Share [Name] work area opens with a Select Users work area visible. In a multi-tenant environment, several tabbed work areas are shown: Select Users, Select Groups, and Share with everyone.

   

   Some columns in this work area can be resized or sorted as needed; select the column header break to resize, or select the column name to change the sort.

4. Select and add users using the work area.

5. Enter a full or partial user or group name in the search field to find and select existing users and groups.

   If you use the Share with everyone work area, you can skip this step.

6. Select an access level for the selected users, groups, or everyone in your tenant: Viewer, Commenter, or Editor.

   All users can see comments associated with widgets in your dashboard when comments are enabled. See Widget Comments for more information on working with comments.

7. Select Add to grant selected users and groups access to this dashboard or report.

   Dashboard and report owners and users with Viewer, Commenter, or Editor access to the dashboard or report are listed in the Existing Access list.

   If you use the Share with everyone work area, all users are given the access level you selected.

8. Select Save to save your changes. Any user or group on the Existing Access list retain their access until you revoke their access.

Local visuals inherit a dashboard’s access level. To share visuals from the Visual Gallery included in your dashboard, you need appropriate permissions or privileges, and DATA ACCESS permission for the sources of those visuals. See Shared Access - Viewers, Shared Access - Commenters,and Shared Access - Editors.

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Shared Access - Viewers

Sharing User or Group Access - Dashboards	Sharing User or Group Access - Visuals	Sharing User or Group Access - Sources	Recipient Access
Sharing user has dashboard access: OWNER or EDITOR of the dashboard Has Administer Dashboards privilege	No visuals access	No source access	Recipients are given access to: VIEWER access level to the dashboard No visual access No source access
Sharing user has dashboard access: OWNER or EDITOR of the dashboard Has Administer Dashboards privilege	Sharing user has visual access: Owner of the visual Has Manage Visuals privilege, and READ permission for the visuals Has Administer Visuals privilege	No source access	Recipients are given access to: VIEWER access level to the dashboard VIEWER access level to the visuals No source access
Sharing user has dashboard access: OWNER or EDITOR of the dashboard Has Administer Dashboards privilege	Sharing user has visual access: Owner of the visual Has Manage Visuals privilege, and READ permission for the visuals Has Administer Visuals privilege	Sharing user has source access: Owner of the source Has Manage Sources privilege, and DATA ACCESS permission for the source Has Administer Sources privilege	Recipients are given access to: VIEWER access level to the dashboard VIEWER access level to the visuals DATA ACCESS permission to the source

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Shared Access - Commenters

Sharing User or Group Access - Dashboards	Sharing User or Group Access - Visuals	Sharing User or Group Access - Sources	Recipient Access
Sharing user has dashboard access: OWNER or EDITOR of the dashboard Has Administer Dashboards privilege	No visuals access	No source access	Recipients are given access to: COMMENTER access level to the dashboard No visual access No source access
Sharing user has dashboard access: OWNER or EDITOR of the dashboard Has Administer Dashboards privilege	Sharing user has visual access: Owner of the visual Has Manage Visuals privilege, and READ permission for the visuals Has Administer Visuals privilege	No source access	Recipients are given access to: COMMENTER access level to the dashboard COMMENTER access level to the visuals No source access
Sharing user has dashboard access: OWNER or EDITOR of the dashboard Has Administer Dashboards privilege	Sharing user has visual access: Owner of the visual Has Manage Visuals privilege, and READ permission for the visuals Has Administer Visuals privilege	Sharing user has source access: Owner of the source Has Manage Sources privilege, and DATA ACCESS permission for the source Has Administer Sources privilege	Recipients are given access to: COMMENTER access level to the dashboard COMMENTER access level to the visuals DATA ACCESS permission to the source

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Shared Access - Editors

Sharing User or Group Access - Dashboards	Sharing User or Group Access - Visuals	Sharing User or Group Access - Sources	Recipient Access
Sharing user has dashboard access: OWNERor EDITOR of the dashboard Has Administer Dashboards privilege	No visuals access	No source access	Recipients are given access to: EDITOR access level to the dashboard No visual access No source access
Sharing user has dashboard access: OWNERor EDITOR of the dashboard Has Administer Dashboards privilege	Sharing user has visual access: OWNER or EDITOR of the visuals Has Administer Visuals privilege	No source access	Recipients are given access to: EDITOR access level to the dashboard EDITOR access level to the visuals No source access
Sharing user has dashboard access: OWNER or EDITOR of the dashboard Has Administer Dashboards privilege	Sharing user has visual access: OWNER or EDITOR of the visuals Has Administer Visuals privilege	Sharing user has source access: OWNER or EDITOR of the sources Has Manage Sources privilege, and DATA ACCESS permission for the source Has Administer Sources privilege	Recipients are given access to: EDITOR access level to the dashboard EDITOR access level to the visuals DATA ACCESS permission to the sources

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Revoke or Change Shared Dashboard Access

Users with appropriate access can revoke Viewer, Commenter, and Editor access from shared dashboards if needed.

If you or your users revoke a recipient’s access to a dashboard, the recipient still has READ access to the visuals and DATA ACCESS to the source. See Shared Access - Viewers.

Revoke dashboard viewer, commenter, or editor access

1. Log in as a user who can share dashboards. Your user account must meet one of the following conditions:

   To revoke an access level:

   • Access as the OWNER of a dashboard - the user who created it and has READ, WRITE, and DELETE permissions for it.
   • Access as the EDITOR of a dashboard - the user who can edit and has READ and WRITE permissions for it.
   • In a group with the Administer Dashboards privilege.

2. Open the dashboard you need from the list of available dashboards.

3. Select Share Dashboard . The Share [Dashboard Name] work area opens with several tabbed work areas: Select Users, Select Groups, and Share with everyone for tenants in your environment.

4. Use the Search box to find one or more users or groups in the Existing Access list in the Select Users work area, Select Groups work area, or Share with everyone work area (when you are working within a tenant).

5. Select the remove icon () next to the user name or group name to remove their access to the dashboard. Select the remove icon as appropriate in the Share with everyone work area.

6. Select Save to save your changes.

Change dashboard access

1. Log in as a user who can share dashboards. Your user account must meet one of the following conditions:

   To change a user’s access level:

   • Access as the OWNER of a dashboard - the user who created it and has READ, WRITE, and DELETE permissions for it.
   • Access as the EDITOR of a dashboard - the user who can edit and has READ and WRITE permissions for it.
   • In a group with the Administer Dashboards privilege.

2. Open the dashboard you need from the list of available dashboards.

3. Select Share Dashboard . The Share [Dashboard Name] work area opens with several tabbed work areas: Select Users, Select Groups, and Share with everyone for tenants in your environment.

4. Use the Search box to find one or more users or groups in the Existing Access list in the Select Users work area, Select Groups work area, or Share with everyone work area (when you are working within a tenant).

   All users can see comments associated with widgets in your dashboard when comments are enabled. See Widget Comments for more information on working with comments.

5. Select Save to save your changes.

When you revoke access to a dashboard, they can no longer access the dashboard, but may still have access to shared visuals and sources.