Accessing a Dashboard Anonymously

The anonymous view for a dashboard enables users to provide external users or users from outer domains to view a dashboard. Therefore, if anonymous access is enabled for a dashboard, any user can view that respective dashboard without having to sign into the WSO2 Dashboard Server. The following are some instances in which this feature comes in use:

When a customer or an observer of particular company might want to see a few statistical information about the company via a dashboard.
When a user who is logged into the Dashboard Server, but belongs to another domain (e.g., another department) needs to view limited content of a dashboard.

All WSO2 DS users who have editor permission to a specific dashboard can create an anonymous view for his/her dashboard. If anonymous view is being enabled in a dashboard, initially, the landing page should be made anonymous, before other pages within a dashboard are made anonymous. Users who are registered under a different tenant (i.e., under a different domain) can access the dashboard using the dashboard’s URL as follows:

Example:
If sample1 is the name of the dashboard in which anonymous access is enabled, then the URL to access the dashboard should be as follows:

https://<HOST_NAME>/portal/dashboards/sample1
or
https://<HOST_NAME>/portal/t/domain/dashboards/sample1

t - This is the prefix for the domain name when there are multiple tenants available
domain - Domain name of that tenant

What's Next?

If you wish to learn how to create a dashboard with anonymous access and view it, try out the Working with Anonymous User Access to a Dashboard tutorial.