Public dashboards & sharing
Share a dashboard with a public link — no login required. Recipients can view filters, change date ranges, and even chat with the AI about the data.
A public dashboard is a view-only version of one of your dashboards, available at a long, unguessable URL. Anyone with the link can open it. There's no login, no account required.
What recipients see
The full dashboard, with all pages and widgets.
The project logo (top of page).
Interactive filters — they can change the date range and apply any filters you exposed.
A chat panel — they can ask SMAQ AI questions about the dashboard's data.
A refresh button to pull the latest data.
What they can't do:
Edit the dashboard or any widgets.
See other dashboards in your project.
Access project settings, automations, or connections.
See data outside what the dashboard displays.
[Screenshot needed] Public dashboard view as seen by an anonymous visitor — project logo at top, dashboard pages and charts, chat panel open on the right.
Creating a public link
Open the dashboard.
Click Share in the dashboard header.
Toggle Public link on.
Copy the URL.
The URL pattern is https://app.smaq.io/public/dashboard/[dashboardId].
[Screen video needed] Toggling Public link on, copying the URL, opening it in an incognito window. ~30 seconds.
Revoking a public link
Open the dashboard → Share.
Toggle Public link off.
The URL is invalidated immediately. Anyone trying to open it after revocation gets a "Link not found" page.
If you suspect a link has been shared further than you intended, revoke and re-enable to mint a new URL.
Chat on public dashboards
Public visitors can use the AI chat, but with safety guardrails:
The AI can only answer questions about the visible dashboard data — not unrelated project data.
It can fetch fresh data via the dashboard's connections, but cannot create datablocks or modify anything.
Chat conversations are visible to project Owners in the historical user messages view.
Date ranges and filters
Public visitors can change the date range and any dashboard-level filters you've configured. The page-level and chart-level filters you set are locked.
If you want to lock the date range too, hide the date filter from the dashboard header before sharing. (Edit mode → filter settings → Hide from public.)
Comparison with snapshots
Live data?
Yes — pulls fresh data on visit
No — frozen at save time
Recipient can change filters?
Yes (within your config)
No
Stays accessible if you delete the dashboard?
No
Yes
Good for
Live client portals, ongoing reporting
Month-end archives, post-mortems
Best practice: public link for live monitoring, snapshot for archived reports.
Security considerations
The URL is a long random string (snapshot IDs are 256-bit). Treat it as a shared secret.
There's no password gate — if the link gets forwarded, anyone who has it can view.
Don't put highly sensitive data on a public dashboard you can't 100% control the audience for.
For controlled-audience sharing, invite recipients as Viewers instead.
Embed in another tool
The public dashboard URL can be embedded in an <iframe> inside other tools (Notion, Confluence, custom portals). Use:
The chat panel and refresh button work inside the iframe.
What's next
Snapshots & version history — for read-only archived versions instead of live shares.
Member roles and access — for controlled-audience access via SMAQ accounts.
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