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Tim
Data Integration
06-17-2022
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How can Designer role (re)publish?

I've granted the Designer role to a colleague. After they make changes, how can they update the main version of the dashboard and republish it so all viewers get the new version? (When I make chang...
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  • HamzaJ's avatar
    HamzaJ
    06-17-2022

    Hi Tim 

    That is not possible. Only the Owner of a dashboard can publish changes to all shared users. When sharing a dashboard there are 3 types of sharing

    - Make owner (only for designer or up)

    - Can edit (only for designer or up)

    - Can view 

    When you select Can Edit; a designer can edit/change the dashboard and its widgets however these changes are only for that specific user. When you as an owner republish the dashboard all those changes will be replaced with your version. That is because the version of the Owner is leading. 

    So either you grant Can Edit-rights. Your colleague makes changes, exports the dashboard to a dash file which you import. 

    or you make your colleague Owner of the dashboard. They make the changes , publishes those changes and make you owner again

     

     

Tim's avatar
Tim
Data Integration
06-19-2022

Thanks Hamza. I'll do export/import. It'd be nice if we could get a "publisher" role in future though.

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kthrapp
Data Storage
09-15-2022

Definitely agree with wanting a "publisher" role in the future, so the owner isn't a single point of failure. If they go on holiday or get sick without transferring ownership, we're not able to publish new dashboard changes to our users.

Also, it'd be helpful if there was some sort of indicator in the UI for designers to be able to easily/quickly tell if what they're seeing is different from everyone else. i.e. has my view diverged from the owner's view?