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Dashboard: make the copy of the dashboard to all users available
By default in Matomo it is not possible to share a dashboard with all users but just individually. It could be great to have an option for all users.
Hi @Chardonneaur, thanks for the suggestion.
At the moment a separate copy of the dashboard is created for the target user, this will then not reflect any new changes made to the original dashboard.
To make a dashboard available for all users I'd imagine that it would be better for the dashboard to be shared rather than copied, so instead of creating a copy for every single user, all users would get read-only access to the original shared dashboard and any changes to that dashboard would apply for all users.
@bx80 Then super-users should be able to change the ownership of a dashboard (think about the case where some user leave the company), and also maybe be able to update dashboards of other users...
@heurteph-ei That's a good point, as part of any implementation of dashboard shared we'd need to provide the ability for super-users to change dashboard ownership and have write access to shared dashboards. :+1:
Possibly there should also be a warning if attempting to delete a user who has shared dashboards, or other users could suddenly lose something they rely on.
@Chardonneaur Currently there isn't a way to share dashboards with other users, only to make a one-time copy for a single user. Our product team will review this change and prioritize it for a future release. :slightly_smiling_face:
We had this as a feature request last week in a call with a university. They have 700 sites. Many of their users are casual and want a common lightweight, low effort configuration. Copying one at a time is a significant impediment to rolling out Matomo across their schools.
A similar request received today with an added feature of sharing with categories of users, i.e. anonymous, view, admin, superuser
At the risk of adding feature creep, here is a closely related feature: "synchronize a custom dashboard to other users of that custom dashboard - a widget added to the master should cause a widget to add to the clients"
Here is the original customer email:
User: Exactly what I needed. What action should I take when I make adjustments in order for the other users to see the adjusted dashboard? Matomo: It won't sync. You'll have to re-share any moved format. User: Thank you for your response. Hopefully developers will address this feature, because that seems quite illogical.
+1 for the feature request. It would have been very useful of one could share the dashboard with others in a way that dashboard would reflect latest changes that creator made in it instead of the current way where dashboards state at the moment of sharing is just copied.
+1 for the feature request. As a workaround, I have been re-copying every dashboard to 10+ people after every update. But this is time-consuming and prone to mistakes. It is an obstacle to widely adopting the tool and advertising it inside the company.
