Best way to share dashboards with particular users by default

Hi,

User groups article describes how to click it through in the UI, I couldn’t, however, find how to do it programatically. API docs describe endpoints to create/update/delete user groups. Are there also available endpoints for adding users to a group? Could you point me to them?

Best,

Hanna

Hi Hanna, 

You would use the “update user group” call to add users to a group via API. First, you would GET the user group you are trying to update, and from their you can amend the body with your new usernames. 

You can also manage users through the user’s brick where you can add them directly to groups/workspaces upon creation. 

I’m afraid there isn’t a grey pages hack to share multiple dashboards with a single user. The only endpoint to add users to a dashboard is the one you previously mentioned: https://help.gooddata.com/doc/enterprise/en/expand-your-gooddata-platform/api-reference/#operation/addGrantees

Hi Hanna, 

Sorry for this. There are additional commands to use when updating the groups and I will post them below. You can change the function by the “operation” parameter. In the case of adding a user, you can use “ADD”: 

POST to <domain>.com/gdc/userGroups/<group+id/modifyMembers

```
SET deletes and adds users so that the group's membership is exactly as listed in the "items" array:
{
"modifyMembers": {
"operation": "SET",
"items": [
"/gdc/account/profile/a312d87ff81a2975306688000cfb915a"
]
}
}
```

```
ADD adds users to the group using the user IDs from the "items" array:
{
"modifyMembers": {
"operation": "ADD",
"items": [
"/gdc/account/profile/a312d87ff81a2975306688000cfb915a"
]
}
}
```

```
REMOVE removes users from the group using the user IDs from the "items" array:
{
"modifyMembers": {
"operation": "REMOVE",
"items": [
"/gdc/account/profile/a312d87ff81a2975306688000cfb915a"
]
}
}
```

Gray pages accept input as a comma-separated list of user URIs in double quotes:

```
"/gdc/account/profile/UID",
"/gdc/account/profile/UID",
"/gdc/account/profile/UID"
```

No problem!

You are correct. Users are assigned under domains/workspaces in the hierarchy rather than the workspaces/domains being assigned to users. 

Ok, so you can create a user group with all the dashboard permissions you want to assign to that particular group, but then you would need to add users to that group as you provision them. This can be done programmatically via API. 

You can then add share dashboards to the group but this cannot be done programmatically.