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title: Dashboard sharing reference qualifiers
description: Use reference qualifiers to limit the users, groups, and roles in the recipients field of shared dashboards.
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last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Share a dashboard, Working with in-line dashboards, Dashboards, Platform Analytics experience, Platform Analytics]
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# Dashboard sharing reference qualifiers

Use reference qualifiers to limit the users, groups, and roles in the recipients field of shared dashboards.

## Before you begin

Role required: admin

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **System Definition** > **Tables**.

2.  Open the **par\_dashboard\_permission** table.

3.  Press Ctrl+Click on the Preview Users button \[Omitted image "InfoIcon.png"\] Alt text: info buttonnext to Users on the **Columns** tab to open the Users dictionary entry.

    Point to the Users Column label to see this button.\[Omitted image "preview-buttons-sched-export.png"\] Alt text: Preview Users and Preview Groups buttons on the Columns list of Par Notification Email Recipients

4.  If you're in the wrong application, select the link to edit the record.

    \[Omitted image "app-mismatch-msg-sched-export.png"\] Alt text: Mismatched application message with link to edit the record

5.  On the Reference Specification tab of the dictionary entry, use the condition builder to add filter conditions to the User list.

    For example, configure the reference qualifier condition \[Name\] \[starts with\] \[b\]. Only users whose names start with the letter B will show up in the list of users in the recipients list when sharing a dashboard.

6.  Select **Update**.


## What to do next

Perform the same actions on the Group and Role columns to limit sharing with those categories of recipient.

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