I want to be able to specify which dashboards are listed on the “Example” tab of the landing page

[EBoisseauSierra]

Problem

I would like to curate my own Superset example dashboards (that would use “real” data and be user-specific), and that these dashboards appear in the “Example” tab in Superset landing page.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to be able to define in a given dashboard settings, whether this dashboard is an Example dashboard or not — e.g. via a toggle switch.

One might want to protect this feature with a specific privilege (so that only a few people can define the Examples of all users of the Superset instance).

Alternatives considered

As discussed on Slack, an “Example” dashboard is a dashboard which created_by_fk is NULL. My current workaround is to UPDATE dashboards SET created_by_fk = NULL WHERE id = <my_dashboard_id>; on the back-end database… but it's not exactly a good practice and I don't always have admin access to back-end dbs.

Additional context

This question is related to (yet distinct from) #17408 : we're here talking about the end result, not the back-end implementation.

[geido]

I think the idea of expanding this concept and providing a way to categorize dashboards is the way to go. #17408 (comment)

I can understand that being able to set a Dashboard as an example might be useful to some, but the level of abstraction that categorization would bring is a big big plus. The only downside is that it might come with some complexity and design considerations.

I believe the best approach to get attention and consensus is to write a SIP #5602. I can help with that @EBoisseauSierra

[geido]

For reference, I think categorization might help satisfying the requirement shared in this other issue #18005

[eschutho]

@betodealmeida implemented something with customizing examples that may help here.

[Bottlecapps]

I am not sure if this the right place to bring this up but a business user one of the biggest issue we have is the option to customize the landing page. Like 90% of the users may only use one dashboard so why not let them configure it to be their landing page?

[geido]

Hey @Bottlecapps why not creating a new issue with more information about the feature and how you envision that?