Sharing cubes & dashboards

Once you've built something, you can let others see it without giving them edit access. XCubes has three ways to share, all read-only for the recipient.

Share a cube

From a cube, Share it with another XCubes user by email. They get a read-only view they can slice and rearrange for themselves. Optionally restrict access to specific items — for example, share a company-wide cube but let a recipient see only their own region's rows.

Share a dashboard

Share a whole dashboard with another XCubes user the same way. The recipient can interact with the cubes on it (filter, drill) but not edit. You can optionally limit them to specific pages of the dashboard.

Public links

A dashboard can also be published as a public link (/public/...) that anyone with the URL can open — no XCubes account needed. Public links support:

• an optional password,
• an optional expiry date,
• enabling/disabling without deleting the link, and
• limiting which pages are visible.

Public links are for dashboards only. To expose a cube publicly, place it on a dashboard and share that dashboard's public link.

Who can share

Managing shares requires the admin role on the project (see Collaboration). Recipients of a private share must be registered XCubes users; public links have no such requirement. Everything shared is read-only — to let people contribute data, use roles, access rules, and the approval workflow instead.