Quick Check: What does a clean "Viewer-only" dashboard UI look like?

Former user

Hi everyone, 

We are currently building out an internal dashboard layout in Atlassian Analytics and are trying to optimise the UI experience for our standard "Viewer" group. 

Could an Enterprise workspace admin kindly share a quick screenshot of what the top right/sidebar menu looks like for a user who has strictly "Can View" access? 

We just want to see how much of the settings panel/sidebar options are hidden or streamlined for basic viewers so we can design our dashboard titles and documentation to match. 

(Please feel free to blur or block out any actual data or chart contents, we just need to see the general navigation/header layout if possible!) 

Thanks a bunch! 

Mohsin Shaikh_tyjrji

Hello @Bananake,

I hope you are doing well.

I understand your concern about how view only dashboard would look like.

Quickest way to validate this yourself:

Create a test user (or use a colleague's account) that belongs to the analytics-users-<site-name> group, grant them only "Can View" on a specific dashboard, and log in as that user. This will give you the exact visual layout for your environment in about 2 minutes, and you can screenshot it safely with your own data blurred.

What a "Can View" user sees on a dashboard:

Visible	Hidden/Removed
All charts and visualizations	Chart creation or editing controls
Interactive controls (date pickers, dropdowns, filters)	Dashboard Settings panel
Refresh button (chart and dashboard level)	Access/permissions tab
Download options (chart and dashboard data)	Cache duration settings
Copy dashboard option	Delete dashboard option
"More actions" menu on each chart (limited options)	Subscription setup
Help menu and notifications	Dashboard activity log
Dashboard title and description	"Publish as template" option

Regarding the sidebar and top-right navigation:

• A viewer does not see the "Settings" option in the dashboard sidebar.

• A viewer does not see any chart creation/editing toolbar.

• If the viewer also has "Can query" access on all underlying data sources for a chart, they will see an "Explore chart data" option in the chart's "More actions" menu. This lets them view the Visual SQL steps behind the chart, but they cannot save changes to the original chart (only save a copy to a dashboard they can edit).

• If the viewer does not have data source query access, the "Explore chart data" option will not appear.

I hope this information helps.

Best regards,
Mohsin Shaikh
ATLASSIAN | Cloud Senior Support Engineer

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