Published Pages are the finished, shareable version of the dashboards you build in the Dashboard Designer. Designing a dashboard and publishing it are two different things: while a dashboard is a Draft, only designers can see it and it can change freely. When you publish it, it becomes a polished, read-only page that the people you choose can open from the Dashboards tab — no design tools, just the numbers.
Where to find Published Pages
From the left sidebar, choose Analytics. The three tabs across the top split the work by audience:
Dashboards — where viewers open the published pages they've been given access to.
Query Library and Designer — where designers build dashboards and manage publishing. These two tabs only appear if you have the dashboard design permission.
Publishing a dashboard
Open Analytics → Designer. Every dashboard row shows its Status badge — Draft or Published — and a set of action buttons on the right.
Find the dashboard you want to share.
Click the paper-plane button on its row. The status flips to Published and the page becomes available to viewers who have access.
To take it back down, click the same button (now a down-arrow) to Unpublish. The page disappears from viewers' Dashboards tab; your design is untouched.
Clicking the open-in-viewer button (or the dashboard's name) takes you into the designer itself, where you build widgets and manage everything else about the dashboard:
Choosing who can see it
Publishing makes a page available — access decides to whom. In the designer, click Manage Access.
Roles — tick each role that should see this page. Everyone with that role gets it.
Individual people — you can also grant access to specific people, which is handy for one-off viewers who don't share a role.
Click Save access. Remember: a person sees the page only when both things are true — the dashboard is published and they're covered by the access list. Designers always see everything.
Where viewers find published pages
Viewers open Analytics → Dashboards. The list on the left shows every published page they can access; clicking one renders it in the pane on the right. There's nothing to configure — it's a clean, view-only surface.
Each published page also has its own web address built from the dashboard's slug (shown under its name in the Designer list) — for example …/dashboard/published-pages/daily-operations. Share that link with anyone who has access and it opens the page directly, full-screen:
Published pages are self-contained documents with their own polish: a live-data badge, a built-in Light/Dark toggle, and print-friendly formatting, so they read like a report rather than a working screen.
Versions and restore
The designer keeps a safety net. Click Versions in the designer header to open the versions panel:
Auto-snapshots are written after every save (the last 20 are kept).
Manual snapshots — click Save current state as a version before a big change; manual versions are pinned and never pruned.
Restore any version to roll the dashboard's widgets and filters back to that point.
Where used elsewhere
Analytics → Dashboards — the viewer surface lists only published pages, so publishing is what makes a dashboard "real" for the rest of the company.
Direct links — the slug address can be bookmarked or dropped into a chat or email for anyone with access.
Permissions
Designing, publishing, unpublishing, managing access, and versions all require the dashboard design permission.
Viewing a published page requires no design permission — just publication plus a matching role or personal grant from Manage Access.
Tips
Publish is a switch, not a copy. Viewers always see the current version of the dashboard — edits you make in the designer show up on the published page.
Save a manual version before big edits to a published dashboard, so you can restore instantly if the change doesn't land.
Unpublish beats delete. If a page needs rework, unpublish it — the design and its history stay intact.
Grant by role where you can. Role access maintains itself as people join and leave; save individual grants for exceptions.
Common questions
I published a dashboard but a teammate can't see it. Why? Publishing alone isn't enough — check Manage Access and make sure one of their roles (or they personally) is on the list.
Can viewers change anything on a published page? No. Published pages are read-only. All editing happens in the designer, behind the design permission.
What's the difference between a dashboard and a published page? Same content, two doors: the dashboard is the editable design in the Designer tab; the published page is its read-only face on the Dashboards tab and at its direct link.
Does unpublishing delete my work? No. Unpublishing only removes the page from viewers. The design, widgets, filters, and versions all remain.
Related topics
Dashboard — the home-screen dashboard, separate from designer dashboards.
Analytics & Reporting Overview — how dashboards, queries, and reports fit together.
Building a Report: A Step-by-Step Walkthrough — for paginated, printable reports rather than live pages.