Manage Dashboards
Security Requirements and Controls
Data read accesspermissionUpdate dashboardspermission
When using an existing dashboard within your LogScale instance, you can choose to navigate around the dashboard view, change, share and alter the dashboard, and configure the dashboard access.
Access existing dashboards
Security Requirements and Controls
Data read accesspermission
If you need to access previously created dashboards to consult them or edit them, first check your permissions: you might not have the permissions to some of the repositories or views containing those dashboards.
The full list of dashboards across all repositories and views is available from the All Dashboards system tab.
In the system tabs' main toolbar, click to show all existing dashboards:
Figure 151. Access existing dashboards
Select the desired dashboard by clicking the title after the slash: the dashboard and all its widgets will load (clicking the first item instead redirects you to the tab in that repository).
Optionally, click the star icon next to a dashboard to save it as favorite and bring it on top of the list for quicker access.
Optionally, click the gear icon to perform several operations on the dashboard such as sharing, exporting or deleting the dashboard — see Dashboard main operations for details.
Dashboard main operations
Security Requirements and Controls
Delete Dashboardspermission
Click the menu icon ⋮ of a dashboard to perform the following operations:
— allows to share read-only dashboards. See Share Dashboards section below for more details.
— allows you to export the dashboard in PDF with several print options such as add the dashboard title in the header or the time window it was executed, set it as portrait or landscape, etc.
For more information, see Export Dashboards as PDF.
— allows you to export the dashboard in PDF with several print options such as add the dashboard title in the header or the time window it was executed, set it as portrait or landscape, etc.
For more information, see Schedule PDF Reports.
— allows you to create a template from the current dashboard, which you may reuse for new empty dashboards, as explained in Create Dashboards.
— allows you to give another user or group access to read, edit, or delete dashboards.
For more information, see Permissions for dashboards.
— creates an identical dashboard. You are prompted to provide:
Dashboard name is the name you assign to the copied dashboard.
Target repository or view is the repository or view where you want to store your copied dashboard.
— deletes the dashboard and all associated widgets. Removal of a dashboard cannot be undone. To create a backup of the dashboard, consider using the option to keep a copy of the dashboard and its configuration.
Figure 152. Dashboard operations
Permissions for dashboards
Security Requirements and Controls
Change user accesspermission
Sometimes you might want to collaborate with another user on a dashboard, but that user does not have permission to dashboards in the view. If you have permissions to do so, you can grant permissions to that user to edit and delete a particular dashboard in a view. For more information about asset permissions, see Asset permissions.
If you do not have
Change user access
permission on the repository, you will see a list of users only (no
groups) that already have at least Read permissions on the repository.
You can select from these users and give them more permissions (up to
the same permissions you have).
To grant access to edit or delete a dashboard to another user or group:
The creator of an asset and regular users can share the same permissions that they have to the asset with users who already have read access to the view. You cannot share access with users who do not have read access to the view. You cannot share access with groups at all.
Click ⋮ next to the dashboard you want to share and select .
In the Users and groups with access window you see users who currently have access to the dashboard and what access they have.
Click .
Click to select the user to get additional permissions. Note that you can only see users who already have read permission to the view. Click .
Select the appropriate permissions to assign. Click .
With
Change user accesspermission, you can grant permission to users, including read permission if the user does not have that, and permissions that you do not have yourself. You can also see groups and group members and what permissions they have in the Groups tab, but you cannot change the permissions for the group in the Groups tab. To be able to change the permissions directly from the group tab, you must haveChange organization permissionspermission.To grant additional permissions to a user that already has read access to the view:
Click ⋮ next to the dashboard you want to share and select .
In the Users and groups with access window you see users who currently have access to the dashboard and what access they have.
Click the button next to the user or group in the list.
Click to assign the permissions. Click .
Click .
If you have the
Change user accesspermission and you want to share permissions to the dashboard with a user or group not in the list, or you want to give a group that is in the list additional permissions:
Click .
Click to select the group or user who should get additional permissions. Click .
Select the appropriate permissions to assign. Be aware of the message that the user or group gets Read access to all assets in the repository automatically when assigning asset permissions for one asset in the repository. Click .
Confirm that you understand that you are granting Read access to all assets in the repository by adding the asset permission for the user or group. Click .
Click .