Show dashboard on kiosk with minimal permission account

Previously, we used JIRA wallboards on our kiosk to display our scrum board, burn down, etc.

In ValueEdge, I have created a dashboard and would like it to display on the kiosk browser but I have yet to find a way to make it accessible with no authentication or a minimal guest account.

Is there such a thing? A token that can be given minimal access and used as a query param when showing the dashboard?

Thanks

  • Verified Answer

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    Hi Jonathan, 

    In dashboard we have such thing called "Public Link" where you can generate a link of a specific dashboard with minimal to no access to the rest of the application.
    I'll leave here a link from the documentation to see exactly what I'm talking about: Sharing options of a dashboard (check Share a dashboard externally section).
    For enabling the parameters of this functionality, please talk with the system administrator. 

    Please let me know if you have any more questions.

    Thanks,
    Dan

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    Hi, Dan.

    Thanks for the reply. I will give it a shot when I get back to the office.

    -Jonathan

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    Hi, Dan.

    I'm pleading my case to support but it sounds like a pretty firm "no" on enabling the "public link" option. Any other ideas?

    Thanks!
    -Jonathan

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    This specific use case was intended to be solved by Public Links, there are no other built in solutions, as we view this specific problem as "solved" by Public Links.

    What ever the reason IT don't want to enable it, may be there are mitigations that can be provided to address IT concerns and still be able to use Public Links.

    Only other solution I can think of which will be accepted from security stand point, would be to automate generation of document reports which can dump dashboard widgets into PDF/WORD files, run this periodically and display PDF files in the kiosk machine.
    Can also convert generated PDF report to HTML and push that the Kiosk.

    A less security friendly solution would be to use Selenium / 
    Playwright / Puppeteer to automate ValueEdge UI and capture the dashboard you generated, this solution is problematic as you will need to use a "real" user to authenticate to ValueEdge, as UI is not accessible to API Keys, which will also consume user license, which I'm sure that IT also won't be happy with.

    bottom line, the most cost effective solution is to use Public Links and address what ever concerns IT have.