Im integrating looker studio pro in my website but I have noticed that when I embed a report, the tables and charts have an option “Link to this component” in header that allows user to create a direct link to the component.
The problem is that when user click this option it shows an option called “View Shared Settings” and when clicked it opens a modal to change share settings AND also redirects the iframe to a diferent page that lists all reports.
Is it possible to disable this option? The only way I could find to this is disable the entire component header, but this also hides other options that I would like to mantain enabled, such as ordering, filters and export.
Hi @echojn At the moment there is no granular setting in Looker Studio (including Pro) to disable only the “Link to this component” option while keeping the rest of the component header actions (sort, filter, export).
That option is part of the standard chart header menu. The only native way to remove it is to disable the entire chart header, but as you noticed, that also hides sorting, filter interaction, and export options.
There is also no supported way to intercept or override that behavior inside an iframe embed, since the menu is rendered by Looker Studio and runs in its own domain. Modifying it via CSS or script injection is not supported and typically blocked by browser security policies.
If preventing access to sharing settings is critical, the practical options are:
• Disable the chart header entirely.
• Restrict report sharing permissions at the report level so users cannot modify sharing even if they open that dialog.
• Submit a feature request through the official feedback channel requesting finer control over header menu items in embedded mode.
Currently, selective disabling of “Link to this component” alone is not supported.
