Good afternoon, dear forum members. I would like to ask you if there is an alternative to share the dashboard privately with clients who do not have Google accounts.
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One workaround for this would be to set up the dashboard to use a password. It would be shared as Public, but no data would appear unless the password was correct. Here’s a simple way to set this up:
- Create a parameter called Enter your password
- Create a calculated field called Include that looks like this: IF(Enter your password = “MyPassword”, 1, 0)
- Set a report level filter to only include records where Include = 1
- Add an Input Box control that allows the user to enter a value for the Enter your password parameter.
- If the user doesn’t enter the correct password, all Include records are set to 0 and therefore no data appears in the report.
You can even take this up a notch by having different passwords that allow for different levels of access. You can see an example here.
This approach is not as secure as “filter by email” and Restricted sharing, but it’s a workaround when your users don’t have Google accounts (required by both of those approaches)
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Unfortunately you can only share the dashboards with google users using the privacy attributes. If the users doesn’t have a google account you need to change the dashboard to public.
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Thanks for the reply, I think it’s a major drawback. I hope it’s included in the new announcements.
We have several clients who don’t have Google accounts or can’t open Google sessions from their desktops due to company privacy policies.
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Would this work? https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/176347?hl=es-419 I’m having the same issue