topic Re: Can't Implement Private Dashboards in ThingWorx Developers

Can't Implement Private Dashboards

jmay1 — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 00:49:15 GMT

I am testing dashboards out for the first time. I have followed all documentation I could find on how to do so. I created two organizations with units and user groups.

There are no dashboard-instance permissions/visibility set, they are all being inherited from the dashboard functions resource and the general dashboard permissions.

I have my dashboard embedded in a mashup.

Right now, when any of my users create a dashboard, it is automatically viewed by all users upon login.

Is this the intended functionality? I was under the impression that by default, no one saw your dashboard until you clicked on "manage sharing" and selected units to share with.

If this is not the intended functionality, anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong? I follow the documentation on dashboard configuration to a T.

Not sure what else to do.

Another thing I do not like that is happening is that all users can see all organizations when they click "manage sharing" I would like them to only be able to see their own organization and units. I have the visibility permissions on each organization set to only be themselves so I'm not sure what else to do here either.

Thank you.

Re: Can't Implement Private Dashboards

PaiChung — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:32:25 GMT

Wow it’s been ages since I’ve touched this.

a User should only see their own and shared dashboards.

I know some things were changed when 8.0 was released because my 7.x dashboards broke, but I never had the time to really find out what.

I would double check user permissions and to see if they aren’t by change assigned incorrectly so that everyone shares the same organizational unit above their individual.

For example did you perhaps not remove Users from the Everyone organization? Because a User shouldn't by default be able to see all other organizations.

Re: Can't Implement Private Dashboards

akharma — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 18:40:29 GMT

By general dashboard permissions, do you mean the Dashboard Collection Permissions?

If you have the Everyone org in the Visibility or (potentially) the Users group in Design Time, that may be the reason.

Re: Can't Implement Private Dashboards

PaiChung — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:06:24 GMT

So there is the Everyone organization

There are the Dashboard collection permissions

and there is the Dashboard function subsystem permissions

Re: Can't Implement Private Dashboards

jmay1 — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 22:41:50 GMT

Is that recommended? To remove "users" from Everyone organization? That would remove A TON of super granular default permissions.

Re: Can't Implement Private Dashboards

PaiChung — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:48:07 GMT

This I believe is the new default in 7.4, 8.x on?

This security is not necessary in all use cases, but provides the most secure setup.

But for proper dashboard control/sharing this is absolutely necessary.

Re: Can't Implement Private Dashboards

zhudson — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:50:25 GMT

Was this ever solved? Having similar issues and I'm wondering what the best route might be.

Re: Can't Implement Private Dashboards

jmay1 — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 20:55:28 GMT

I could not solve this issue. I even worked with some of the developers at liveworx this year to troubleshoot and the permissions just weren't working as expected in the version I was using.

However, since upgrading to 8.3 we have found that the collections widget solves this use case more elegantly and have decided to use it instead of the dashboard.

Here is a helpful link about the collection widget in case you are not familiar:

https://community.ptc.com/t5/ThingWorx-Developers/New-in-8-2-Collection-and-CSS-Editor/m-p/535064#M32387