Hi all. I run a SaaS product, and have had the in...
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Hi all. I run a SaaS product, and have had the inevitable "we want insights into our data" requirement come up. Yay!!! I've tried the demo, and Lightdash looks very promising from a self-service pov. I have a few questions hopefully someone can shed some light on: • Limiting workspace to a particular organizationId hooked up to my backend DB. I.e. don't want customer A looking at data from customer B. I assume doable via dbt? • Embedding the actual self-service component of Lightdash. I see you can embed dashboards as a read only view, but can you embed the actual self-service Lightdash app within my existing app? I.e. sort of whitelabel it. Can i just iframe it?
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👋 Thanks for your message - someone from the Lightdash support team will get back to you asap. Feel free to add any additional context to the thread here in the meantime (screenshots, app version if you're self-hosting etc.).
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Hi Dominic thanks for the questions: • You can limit what users can see by using user_attributes, these essentially apply the row-level and column-level limitations that limit what a user can access - quick guide to doing this in embedding here. • At the moment, embedding is limited to the dashboards and charts that folks can interact with (e.g. create filters etc), however they can’t view the entire “builder” side of the application. You could iframe Lightdash, however then users would need to login to Lightdash first, which may not be the desired experience you’re looking for? Are most folks looking for static insights that you would create for them, or is it also a requirement that they’re able to explore the data themselves?
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@Hamzah thanks for the quick reply. 1. Awesome that sounds like it would work perfectly. 2. I would say it's a hard requirement they can self-service and explore data themselves. Logging into Lightdash hosted on sep server/subdomain would could work, however only if: • The creds used are the same as my main app. Perhaps I can hook into the auth mechanism of Lightdash? Any thoughts on something I could do here? • They are limited to see only their org (sounds solved via 1. user_attributes
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Hi @Dominic Bou-Samra 👋 Is it a requirement for users to save charts and dashboards?