Share custom dashboards with others

alJE · May 16, 2022, 9:18am

Dear community,

I am the admin of Matomo in my organization. Some users with view access have created custom dashboards and would like to share them with their team. However, sharing dashboards requires superuser access. I am unable to see those dashboards as a superuser. Is there any workaround to share them with the other team members without having to recreate the dashboard myself every time?

Also, what happens if this dashboard is updated by one user? Is it also updated to all users?

Thanks!

heurteph-ei · May 16, 2022, 2:43pm

AFAIK, yes…

Share a Custom dashboard with other users and keep it synchronised across users

opened 12:16PM - 09 Jan 15 UTC

mattab

Major Enhancement

The goal of this issue is to let any Piwik user share the currently viewed Custo…m Dashboard with a colleague or friend who also has access to this Piwik server. ### Edit: see below comment for updated notes #### Proposed solution We can add a new option in the `Widgets & Dashboard` selector that will let users get a URL that they can copy paste. When another user clicks on this URL it will load the Piwik and ask user to login if not logged in yet. Once logged in, the user will directly be invited to create a new Custom Dashboard (pre-selected with same widgets and layout as his colleague). The colleague now has access to a copy of your Custom Dashboard! #### Notes - the Shared URL should include the same idSite, date, period, and segment parameters. - this way the shared URL let user re-create exactly the same view as his colleague could see when sharing the dashboard. - When displaying the URL we could write something like "Note: the user loading this URL will be asked to Login to this Piwik instance."

alJE · May 16, 2022, 2:52pm

Thank you. And do you have any idea how one can share the custom dashboard?

As mentioned here https://matomo.org/faq/how-to/faq_25986/ one needs to have a superuser access to share a custom dashboard. However, I am not going to give superuser access to anyone who wants to share his custom dashboard with others. It’s pity that superuser can’t manage all custom dashboards created by others.

heurteph-ei · May 16, 2022, 3:11pm

It seems it is not possible yet, but this feature is planned to be developed in the future (cf. GitHub feature request)

alJE · May 16, 2022, 3:29pm

Ok, Thank you for your answer. This is very helpful!