Folders and Dashboards are only permitted to have 1 owner, this has been the case with Sisense since we first started using it 6 years ago. The time has really come to allow multiple owners of Dashboards and Folders. We have around 70 Designers who use our Sisense instance and being able to swap work, work jointly, used shared structures etc. adds a huge amount of time, inconvenience and frustration. The request here is to allow multiple owners of Folders and Dashboards so that Designers can collaborate more effectively, the flexibility of such work would greatly reduce the time to deployment.
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Any news on shared folders? specifically for cloud.
Sisense should focus on enabling a more collaborative approach when it comes to working with dashboards and, particularly, folders.
We really struggle with folder management and have decided to completely get rid of them until Sisense finds an optimal solution.
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.
- 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.
- Only the owner of a folder can add/remove dashboards. Proper organisation/versioning of assets can be almost impossible without reassignment of dashboard ownership.
- 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.
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.
Hi all - any update on when this will be released? Thanks
Hi mitratechonprem , thanks for your interest in this functionality. While it’s something we’re considering investing in toward the end of this year or early next, we don’t have a confirmed timeline or commitment at this stage. Plans are still evolving, and we’ll share updates as soon as there’s more clarity.
Hi @DRay @Oleksandr_K,
Has there been any progress with changing how ownership of folders work? Like other users have mentioned above the current functionality is impractical and is causing extra work by having to change ownership of dashboards and using the API to change ownership of folder to workaround the current functionality.
It would be great to have private folders and team folders where many members can organize and publish dashboards in a single folder.
- Status changed:DeliveredtoPlanned
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.
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.
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 ?
