# How to take Dashboard user to the default dashboard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-dashboard-user-to-the-default-dashboard/132038>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 16, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-dashboard-user-to-the-default-dashboard/132038 "2018-05-16T06:27:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![sunilmchaudhari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sunilmchaudhari/32/9475_2.png) [@sunilmchaudhari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunilmchaudhari)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-dashboard-user-to-the-default-dashboard/132038/1 "2018-05-16T06:27:24Z")

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Hello,  
I have dashboard only user. How can I take him to the default dashboard defined in kibana.yml?  
I don't want to show him the dashboard search screen.

br,  
Sunil.

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-dashboard-user-to-the-default-dashboard/132038/2 "2018-05-16T18:13:45Z")

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The only way to set a dashboard as any kind of default is to set the ID of the dashboard as Kibana's default app.

Ex:

```auto
kibana.defaultAppId: dashboard/e689fa70-5535-11e8-84f5-81ea0bee2f71

```

I'm looking this up in 6.2.4, the current latest version, and it looks like when you log in with a dashboard-only user, it doesn't respect the `kibana.defaultAppId` setting, which it should if the defaultAppId is `dashboard/some_id`

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-dashboard-user-to-the-default-dashboard/132038/3 "2018-05-16T18:18:58Z")

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Filed a bug: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/19143](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/19143)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-take-dashboard-user-to-the-default-dashboard/132038/4 "2018-06-13T18:19:08Z")

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