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In short: Every live app has a fixed link and an optional password. You will find both in the Access tab on the dashboard’s page. Your readers need nothing else, no account and no login.
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Open the dashboard's page

In the Console, go to Builds and click the dashboard.
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Copy the link

In the Access tab, under Viewer link, click Copy viewer link. You will also find it in the … menu. It copies the fixed link to your clipboard. Share this link with your readers, for example by email or chat, so they can open the dashboard.
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Send the password separately

If the dashboard has a password, copy it in the Access tab or with Copy password in the … menu. Send it in a separate message.
Always take the link from the Console. Don’t copy the address from the browser bar or from an old email. The link from the Console is meant for readers. It keeps working when the data and design change.
The link stays the same after every data refresh and every approved change. If a dashboard goes offline and you bring it back, links you already shared work again.
Screenshot needed: the Access tab with Copy viewer link and the password.

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The password

In the Access tab, you can view the password (Show), copy it (Copy) or reset it (Set new password).
If a dashboard has no password, the page says so: “anyone with the link can open it”. Then anyone with the link can open the dashboard. Share such links with care.

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Setting a new password

Click Set new password and confirm. The Console generates a secure password. You cannot choose your own password.
Anyone who only knows the old password loses access immediately. Give your readers the new password.
If there is an older password that the Console doesn’t know, store it with Store known password. Nothing changes for your readers. The Console can show it to you afterwards.

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For a preview

A new dashboard already has its password in the preview. A change to a live dashboard always keeps that dashboard’s password. So you change it on the live dashboard’s page.

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What you can do next

Owner, project and handover

Who is responsible for a dashboard and how to hand it over.

When something goes wrong

What to do if someone tells you the page is blank.