Folder and Dashboard Ownership for Multiple Users

DRay Could you provide further guidance on whether this will include folders?

In the current structure, the owner of the folder has to add dashboards into said folder. I’d like to allow multiple users to add dashboards into folders. This would be super beneficial for workflow.

Laflet qamardinpal Folder co-ownership is not currently on the roadmap.

For development purposes, co-owning dashboards will be beneficial for non admin users. But for folder management, co-owned folders would be great. Is it possible for admins to change the owner or view as owner in a folder, a bit like in dashboards?

qamardinpal Might be worth looking at this plugin. Given it’s currently not on the road map, this is likely what i will do.

https://www.sisense.com/marketplace/share-folder/?categories=all&type=addons&publisher=all&cost=all&sort=A-Z&searchString=folder 

Hi qamardinpal 

I haven't had a chance to check with the product team yet. I'll let you know as soon as I have more information.

Hi qamardinpal The Dashboard that is co-owned can be in any folder. The folder structure in Sisense is mostly for visual organization. Users will also still be able to duplicate Dashboards and save them wherever they need to.

What is the use case that you are looking to solve? 

qamardinpal You may want to look into the GIT integration for your use case. https://docs.sisense.com/main/SisenseLinux/introduction-to-sisense-git-integration.htm

Just to add to the request list here. Folder management is something that we expected to be there as a basic feature, but it is very problematic right now and impractical in practice for a large organisation.

There are 2 core use-cases for folders:

1. To allow us to manage various types and targets for dashboards.
2. To segregate areas/groups/usage
3. To allow us to manage what we present to users in the UI.

Whilst ultimately everything resolves to an ID, it makes SiSense very hard to work with for day to day use and I can see this limiting how we expand usage.

Current issues:

• Admin permissions are not correctly respected; they cannot move, edit or add to folders owned by other users. This creates a situation where we have to shift ownership temporarily to move things around.
• Cannot change ownership of a folder. This wouldn't be such an issue if Admins were able to manage and move dashboards and folders, whoever is the notional 'owner'.
• Lack of Admin means we cannot, in practice move/rearrange folders without a lot of pain. If a folder is owned by person A, but the dashboards have other authors (very common), it creates a situation where the only way to change the structure is for the current Admin to create a new folder, take ownership and move everything one by one - then hand them all back.

Hello pb_si,

Can you look at this post and let us know if addresses your needs?

I will also like to request this feature in Sisense. We have internal teams working for different clients, so we like to create 'shared folders' for each client where multiple developers where multiple developers can change/add assets in that folder. its a critical use case of our business use-case

Benji_PaldiTeam does your plugin help achieve this functionality ?