Publish link for authorized user and give the API session

Pablo Cieri

Hi everyone, I just started to review this and I found almost impossible.

I want to publish a Dashboard, but only for authorized users (Security is very important), so then I want to load that Dashboard in an iframe. But how I can give the security to bypass the login?

I'm looking in the API (python, nodejs, c#) and reading in the documentation, but I didn't find a way to give a token or something to the url to Auto login and display the dashboard.

Someone know if this is possible?

Pablo Cieri

I fount this link:

https://www.smartsheet.com/content-center/best-practices/tips-tricks/api-getting-started

Maybe I should register as 'Developer Sandbox Account Registration' (https://developers.smartsheet.com/register)

and then create an app, and after that force the authentication of the user in the frontend? Can anyone confirm this?

Genevieve P.

Hi Pablo,

Honestly, I'm not sure how to do this via API or if this is possible... but if your concern is security and making sure only authorized users can see the dashboard, can I ask why you're looking to publish the link instead of sharing it?

You can share Smartsheet items to users who aren't licensed or a part of an organization; these users can just have Free Collaborator accounts. This does mean that they would need to set up a Smartsheet account and login, but if you provide them the direct URL to the dashboard, it would only allow specific shared users to see the data.

• Info on Free Users (click here)
• Info on Sharing (click here)
• Link to our API Documentation (click here)