Sharing a dashboard
A beautiful, insightful dashboard complete with monitored health states is a powerful thing. What makes is even more powerful is when you can share it. SquaredUp's sharing feature allows you to send read-only dashboards to anyone, both inside and outside of your organization, in just a few clicks.
Free users get access to one shared dashboard at a time (that can be sent to an unlimited number of people!), while pay-as-you-go dashboard sharing is available on the starter plan and above.
This article walks you through the process of how to share a dashboard in SquaredUp and introduces the concept of access control. It also highlights the next steps on your journey to operational intelligence.
See Sharing for a deeper look and for help with configuration options.
Link sharing access control
Access control is a broader concept that affects many elements of your SquaredUp environment from workspaces, to dashboards, to data sources.
In the context of dashboard sharing, access control allows you to determine who can access a dashboard via its generated sharing link. The following describes the available options:
Sharing your first dashboard
This tutorials continues directly on from adding your first monitor, but you can still follow it with any other dashboard.
Lets put that free dashboard share to use and generate a link we can send out to stakeholders (or anyone you want to show your fancy new dashboard to!).
- Navigate to your Release Status dashboard.
- Click Share at the top of the dashboard. The Share window opens.
- Select Anyone with the link from the Link sharing section.
- Optionally, click Settings next to the share link and then choose whether to share the dashboard in Dark or Light mode.
- Click the Copy link button to copy the sharing link to your clipboard.
- Share that link with anyone you want!
And just like that you've expanded your information network and opened the door for broader visibility, faster collaboration, and easier alignment across your teams. Through one simple link, you’ve made your work accessible to everyone who needs it. No logins. No friction. Just clear insights, delivered instantly.
Go ahead and paste the link into your browser to experience the same dashboard view as the link recipients.
Disabling sharing
Turning off the dashboard share is an equally simple process:
- Navigate to the dashboard you want to disable sharing for (e.g. your Release Status dashboard).
- Click Share at the top of the dashboard. The Share window opens.
- Select Off from the Link sharing section.
The moment you stop sharing, the link you generated ceases to function and anybody with that link loses access, and will be displayed a Sorry, this dashboard is not available message when they attempt to access it.
If you disabled sharing by mistake don't panic! Simply re-enable sharing and the same link will come back to life, so that you don't have to redistribute your dashboards.
Next steps
By now you should be starting to feel pretty comfortable in your workspace. You've hooked up a data source, built your own monitored dashboard and shared it with the world. If one person was able to deliver that much value, imagine what a team can do!
The next step on your journey is learning how to invite users to your workspace to leverage the power of collaboration, faster iteration and a collective understanding of your data.
See Inviting a user to continue.