topic Creating new role to edit dashboards in Dashboards & Visualizations

Creating new role to edit dashboards

Gil — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:21:45 GMT

Hi there,

I'm trying to create a new role that can give permission to some users (who has the basic inheritance role) to edit other dashboards and make their own dashboards public.

I tried various ways to solve it without reach any success, like adding specific capabilities.

any help?!

Re: Creating new role to edit dashboards

livehybrid — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:46:22 GMT

Hi @Gil

Does your user have a role which has write permissions to the app that you want them to be able to add/edit dashboards in?

In order to share dashboards within an app they need write permissions. Go to https://yourSplunkDeployment/en-US/manager/search/apps/local and then click on "Permissions" in the "Sharing" column for the app you wish to give them permissions on. Ensure that a role the user has is ticked under the "Write" column.

If you want more segregation you could create a new role just for this purpose and then assign the role Write permissions, then add your user(s) to the role.

Please let me know how you get on and consider accepting this answer or adding karma this answer if it has helped.
Regards

Will

Re: Creating new role to edit dashboards

gcusello — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:00:36 GMT

Hi @Gil ,

after you created the new role, did you give to this role the write grant to your dashboards?

To each dashboard you can give read and/or write grants.

It's not possible to do this in bulk mode.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

Re: Creating new role to edit dashboards

Gil — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:21:12 GMT

i see what you say, but it does not help me with the fact that those users cannot change their dashboards to public.

Re: Creating new role to edit dashboards

livehybrid — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:23:40 GMT

Hi @Gil

When you say public - Do you mean shared within the app for other app users? If so, the user will need to be in a role which has write permissions to that app (and dashboard) so they can share it within the app.

Please let me know how you get on and consider accepting this answer or adding karma this answer if it has helped.
Regards

Will

Re: Creating new role to edit dashboards

Gil — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 14:24:53 GMT

i tried to avoid give them the write permission to that app.

so it will probably work but wont answer all my desires.

Re: Creating new role to edit dashboards

gcusello — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:40:11 GMT

Hi @Gil ,

as also @livehybrid said, it isn't relevant the sharing level of your dashboards, but only if a role has or not has the grant to write the dashboard.

If you want that some users can modify some dashboards, you have to create a role, assign those users to this role and enable writing in dashboards to this new role.

Ciao.

Giuseppe