# kibana.defaultAppId for user "kibana\_dashboard\_only\_user"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-defaultappid-for-user-kibana-dashboard-only-user/120595>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-defaultappid-for-user-kibana-dashboard-only-user/120595 "2018-02-20T09:55:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![ashwinichhipa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ashwinichhipa/32/27913_2.png) [@ashwinichhipa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ashwinichhipa)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 9:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-defaultappid-for-user-kibana-dashboard-only-user/120595/1 "2018-02-20T09:55:16Z")

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Hi All,

I have setup default dashboard page (post login) for my admin user, using below mentioned config set in kibana.yml file:  
kibana.defaultAppId: "dashboard/id\_of\_one\_of\_my\_dashboards".

It works completely fine with admin user (elastic user). But when I login to my another user which is "kibana \_dashboard\_only\_user", I still end up getting list of dashboards instead of the default dashboard I have set in kibana.yml file.

Can someone please suggest what other changes I need to do in order to get the set default dashboard for "kibana\_dashboard\_only\_user" as well.

Thanks,  
Ashwini

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**Author:** ![Stacey\_Gammon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stacey_gammon/32/14025_2.png) [@Stacey\_Gammon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stacey_Gammon)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-defaultappid-for-user-kibana-dashboard-only-user/120595/2 "2018-02-20T14:39:20Z")

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Thanks for pointing this out - this is a legit bug. Dashboard only mode doesn't do anything with defaultAppId because there is only one app that will be displayed - dashboard. We failed to realize that some users can also use that variable to open up a specific dashboard by default.

I filed this internally as a bug so we can track it and hopefully get a fix out for the next release.

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**Author:** ![ashwinichhipa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ashwinichhipa/32/27913_2.png) [@ashwinichhipa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ashwinichhipa)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-defaultappid-for-user-kibana-dashboard-only-user/120595/3 "2018-02-20T16:36:14Z")

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Thanks for your reply Stacey.  
Hopefully fix will come out soon.

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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:** [March 20, 2018, 4:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-defaultappid-for-user-kibana-dashboard-only-user/120595/4 "2018-03-20T16:36:43Z")

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