# Sharing Dashboards Perma URL / Locked Parameters

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sharing-dashboards-perma-url-locked-parameters/239317>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [June 30, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sharing-dashboards-perma-url-locked-parameters/239317 "2020-06-30T13:39:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kalyse](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kalyse/32/71381_2.png) [@Kalyse](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kalyse)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sharing-dashboards-perma-url-locked-parameters/239317/1 "2020-06-30T13:39:05Z")

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My goal is to allow the creation of a dashboard, which can be embedded on to my users account, so that they can view only their data.

What I was thinking was:

- Create a user which has access to a specific global\* index pattern
- All indices then become accessible via visualizations I can create
- Create a proxy which adds the Authorization Basic base64 to load the `/app/kibana#` embed for the dashboard.

So far, the above all works. I've successfully created dashboards and can share them via the proxy.

The problem is that I don't know how I can filter by specific user. If each document has:

user: 1  
user: 2  
user: 3 etc...

How can I have a dashboard which has visualizations, such that when I try and embed the dashboard, ONLY the data which matches a specific `user === 1` will be returned, if I'm loading for user 1.

I can obviously create a filter, but then anyone can just select another user and load their data too. (It's not actually super sensitive data, so we have no problems in there "technically" being a risk of exposing other user data. Everything is published on a website anyway, so there is no expectancy of private data.

So, is this possible?  
Have a dashboard, whcih can be shared by all users, and then from my own personal SaaS app, when it's embedded, I pass some custom prop to force a search on only particular field values?

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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:** [July 28, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sharing-dashboards-perma-url-locked-parameters/239317/2 "2020-07-28T13:39:13Z")

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