Folder and Dashboard Ownership for Multiple Users

Hello Rathinakumar , Drew, we do have plans for improving user experience around folders in the upcoming months. In particular, we are going to focus on enabling users that are not folder owners to add dashboards into folders, which should allow for easier collaboration and dashboards organization.

Thanks Benji and Laflet - this is great that you have / there is something like this, however we feel this should be something that is part of the core application rather than being an Add-On.  Other BI applications have this as core functionality.

DRay - Your thoughts on my previous comments?

Hi qamardinpal - Dashboard co-ownership is part of our Winter 2024 release which will be available shortly.  Please reach out to your CSM to plan your upgrade to our latest release of Sisense (already available if on Cloud) and please be on the lookout for our Dashboard Co-Ownership course in the Sisense Academy.

I will add the requirement for folder co-ownership since that is currently outside the scope of the current release.

 Thanks for raising this - your feedback is important to us.

Current folder implementation is indeed based on a single user ownership that prevents other users from adding or removing dashboards from it.  We will evaluate this feature request in order to prioritize it in the roadmap.

Good news! Dashboard Co-Ownership is expected to be included in a Sisense release coming within the next several months!

Hey - That is great to hear, will this also encompass Folder Co ownership?

Hi DRay , Will users be able to move co-owned dashboards into each others folders and republish?  Because if not and if folders cannot be co-owned then it means that dashboards can only be co-owned outside of folders which in some ways defeats the whole purpose !!

Hi Laflet  and qamardinpal ,

I welcome you to check out the below plugin as well:
https://www.sisense.com/marketplace/dashboard-sharing-utility/

What's good about this plugin is it's fully integrated with Sisense UI and has the ability to merge new viewers with the current ones.

Hello DRay Oleksandr_K, we are also very interested in this functionality. Keeping dashboards organised in folders within a setup with multiple owners of dashboards is not practical at all. As others have said, it makes collaboration very hard while trying to keep a "clean" list of dashboards. 

YuliyaMotiyetsthis is encouraging - right now this is causing real problems for us in production. There are several important use cases for this folder system - UI presentation to end users, asset organisation and dashboard publication & basic version management.

Items 1 and 2 are high priority, 3 should really be there but less important than the other two.

1. Folders are invisible to other admins if the dashboards that contain them are not shared. This creates a situation where multiple versions of folders or dashboards (even with the same name) can be unknowingly created.
2. Only the owner of a folder can add/remove dashboards. Proper organisation/versioning of assets can be almost impossible without reassignment of dashboard ownership.
3. Not possible to move folders. It's really time-consuming to create a new empty one, drag each dashboard individually and delete the old one.