Open Access enables easy sharing of dashboards throughout your organisation. Open Access dashboards do not require authentication and do not consume user licences.
When users view an Open Access dashboard on SquaredUp v5 they see a version of the dashboard with simplified interactivity. (On SquaredUp v4 Open Access dashboards are server-rendered bitmap versions of the dashboard).
Users can view hover text, such as graph figures, and line highlighting on graphs. If a user clicks to drill down to further data or to update the state of an alert they will be prompted to login, and can contact admin requesting a licence.
When Open Access is enabled, normal dashboards can still be accessed on the normal URL and will work as you'd expect, but individual dashboards can be enabled for Open Access and then accessed from a distinct Open Access URL.
You can choose to use the Open Access navigation bar to give easy access to a range of Open Access dashboards, or simply give users an individual Open Access dashboard URL without the navigation bar.
You might like to watch this 2 minute introduction to Open Access:
Enabling Open Access
Open Access enables easy sharing of dashboards, that do not require authentication to view. As no user is logged in, the SquaredUp enterprise application (service principal) is used. Open Access dashboards will only show resources, resource groups or subscriptions for which the enterprise application has at least the role of Reader.
See How to configure Open Access
Publishing Open Access dashboards
For more information see How to publish dashboards with Open Access
Troubleshooting Open Access
Many issues can be resolved by rerunning the Open Access configuration to ensure that the SquaredUp enterprise application has at least the minimum of the Reader role.
On SquaredUp v5 we also recommend rerunning the generate option for the Open Access dashboard experiencing problems, and on SquaredUp v4 it is important to check the loopback URL.
For more information see Open Access troubleshooting steps.