What viewers see on a shared Mammoth dashboard

Open a password-protected dashboard

A board shared as Anyone with the link and password opens on an unlock screen:

• Heading: "This dashboard is password protected"
• "Enter the password the owner shared with you to view this dashboard."
• A password field with Show / Hide
• View dashboard

Open a dashboard that needs sign-in

A board shared as Sign-in required asks a signed-out visitor to sign in: "Sign in to view this dashboard", "This dashboard is shared with specific people. Sign in to view it." and a Sign in button.

After signing in, someone without access sees "You don't have access to this dashboard" and "Ask the person who shared it with you to share it again." They may be signed in with a different account from the one you invited. The account menu has Use a different account (see The viewer board bar).

When a dashboard isn't available

If the board was unpublished or the link is wrong, viewers see "This dashboard isn't available" and "This dashboard may have been unpublished, or the link may be incorrect." A board that goes offline while open reads "This dashboard is no longer available." Republishing brings the same link back.

Find dashboards shared with you

Signed-in viewers find every dashboard and collection shared with them under Shared with you in the left sidebar. For people who can only view (and on the dashboards-only address), the same page is called Your dashboards.

The page shows:

• Groups of dashboards: cards for collections shared with you
• Dashboards: each with "Shared by" and the sharer's name, then "updated 2 hours ago", and a New badge on ones you haven't opened
• A Search dashboards box, once there are more than a few items
• Sort: Recently updated or Name (A–Z)

With nothing shared yet, it reads "Nothing shared with you yet" and "Dashboards others share with you show up here."

Charts you saved from the AI Agent

A Made by me tab lists charts you saved from the AI Agent (available on Enterprise plans). Each one shows "Only you" or "Shared with 3 people", with Share and Ask about this. If you lose access to the data behind one, it reads "No longer available" with Request access.

The viewer board bar

A signed-in viewer sees a slim bar at the top of a shared board:

• A back link to Shared with you (or Your dashboards)
• The board's title. When more than one board is shared with you, click it to Switch dashboard. The menu marks unopened boards New, and adds a search box when the list is long. No match reads "No dashboards match "pipeline"".
• An account chip, "Signed in as you@example.com", with Your dashboards, Use a different account and Sign out

When the board uses row-level security, the account menu adds: "You see only the rows shared with you. Other people may see different numbers." Two viewers can see different totals on the same board. That's expected. See Row-level security.

Use filters on a published dashboard

Filters sit in a Filters sidebar beside the board. Viewers can:

• Change any filter. Each one affects the charts it's set to cover, on this page or every page
• See active filter values as pills above the board, and clear them all with Clear all
• Hide the sidebar with Collapse filters. In the top-tabs layout, a round Show filters button brings it back and shows how many filters are active

On a phone, the sidebar becomes a drawer. Open it from the Filters button in the header and close it with Close filters (×) or by tapping outside it.

Filters a viewer sets don't change the board for anyone else. For the filter types and how authors set them up, see Dashboard filters.

Click a chart to filter, drill down or see the rows

On charts where the author turned them on, clicking a bar, slice or point opens a menu with up to three actions:

• Filter the board to 2025: every chart the filter covers changes to that value
• Drill into quarter in 2025: only this chart redraws one level down, for example from year to quarter. A breadcrumb leads back up
• See the rows behind 2025: opens a list of the records next to the board

Row-level security applies to both. The author chooses which actions each chart offers in its Readers can settings. See Let readers filter, drill down or see rows.

Pages, Q&A and Explore for viewers

Viewers move between pages with the board's page navigation. See Pages and navigation.

If the author turned on viewer Q&A, viewers can ask questions on the board's Q&A page. Signed-in viewers can also use the Explore page, unless the board uses row-level security. See Explore and Q&A pages.

Read a dashboard on a phone

A published board opened on a phone uses the phone layout, with the Filters drawer described above.

When an editor opens their own board link on a phone, Mammoth shows a read view instead of the editor. It shows the board as readers see it, built from the draft, and you can't edit there. The bar has:

• Back to dashboards
• The title, with Live or Draft
• A Sample data tag if the board is on sample data
• Share, which opens the same Share panel as on a computer

For a deck held upright, the view suggests "Slides read best sideways." with Present, which plays the deck full screen.

What readers see in an embedded dashboard

An embedded board renders inside the host page and, with the auto-height script, grows to fit. Readers don't sign in. What they see depends on the embed's settings: the whole board, one page or one chart, in the theme the author chose.

If the embed can't show, readers see one of these:

If the page can't run scripts, the snippet shows a plain block with the board's title and link. For public boards without row-level security, it includes the headline numbers.

"This dashboard can't be shown inside another site"

The share link is for opening in a browser, not for framing. If someone puts the plain share link (not an embed snippet) in a frame on another site, readers see "This dashboard can't be shown inside another site." with Open in Mammoth, which opens the board in its own tab. To show a board inside a page, use the Embed tab. See Embedding.

Related

• Publish and share a dashboard: access, invites and unpublishing.
• Row-level security: why two viewers see different numbers.
• Audience and engagement: what viewers read and ask.
• Collections: groups of dashboards in Shared with you.
• Dashboard filters: how authors set up the filters viewers use.