Clear Session Storage from Anonymous User Access

[Martim-Sensefinity]

When using the feature of the anonymous user I would expect that the cookie dashboardStateManagerPanels to not be stored on the session storage.

When using an embedded dashboard with an anonymous user, I want the dashboard filters (the control ones!) to be cleared every time I access the dashboard.

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[ThomThomson]

We currently aren't prioritizing issues relating to the Dashboard embed mode, so I'm going to add this to the icebox.

That said, you can ensure that the filters are always reset on load by adding filters into the _a param of the Dashboard URL. You can see the format by:

1. Add a filter to a saved dashboard
2. Don't save the dashboard
3. Click share -> get links -> snapshot -> get URL

Then you'll have a URL with the filters inside it. This will always override the state from dashboardStateManagerPanels

[Martim-Sensefinity]

Hi!

The _a solution works for these filters:

But not for these types of filters (that are added by the user when using the dashboard):

Use Case: I use the anonymous user to embed dashboards on another website, The user adds filters and leaves that page, and when we comes back the filters are still applied, I was not expecting that to be the case with the anonymous feature.

[ThomThomson]

Hi @Martim-Sensefinity, you should be able to do the same process to get the Control selection in the URL.

1. Make the Control selections you'd like to show up by default
2. Add any filter pills you'd like to show up by default
3. Don't save the Dashboard
4. Click share -> get links -> snapshot -> get URL

Then you'll have a URL with both the filters and the controls selections. You can serialize this into your iframe.

You can follow this process for anything you'd like to override the session storage.