Creating dashboard links

A dashboard link is the URL of a specific dashboard.

Note: Because of limitations of the maximum URL size that are supported by various browsers, the created link does not always contain all parameters of the dashboard. Therefore, if the dashboard is changed after sending the link, the recipient of the dashboard link may see a different view than the view at the time of sending the link.

If required you can then amend the link by adding, for example, username and password parameters to sign in the recipient automatically. See Manual dashboard links for more information about editing the links manually.

In an open dashboard, select Share > Create Dashboard Link.
Select one of the options:
- Simple link: opens the default view of the dashboard.
  The recipient of a simple link always sees the recently saved dashboard view.
- Full context link: opens the saved view of the dashboard.
  Even if the dashboard view has been changed, the recipient of the full context link, sees the view that was saved at the time when the full context link was created.
- Relative context link: represents the difference between the saved view and the simple link.
  The relative context link contains any values that were changed since the dashboard view was saved.
Click Send E-Mail

Note: If you use Web-based e-mail, press Ctrl + Send E-Mail to open your e-mail client in a new window.
Click Close.

The links created by the Create Dashboard Link feature require the recipient to sign in to the dashboard. But you can manually create dashboard links that include sign-in credentials.