# Dashboards and sharing

> Pin an answer to a dashboard or to your Home, share it with colleagues, and let an administrator make a public link for people outside the company.

Source: https://adea.app/docs/dashboards-and-sharing

An answer you want to see again belongs on a dashboard. A dashboard you want others to see can be shared with colleagues, or, with a link, with people outside the company.

## Put an answer on a dashboard

Save a question, and it joins the main dashboard of the group it is filed in. To put it on another dashboard, choose **Add to dashboard** on the answer and pick one. You can also make a new dashboard from saved questions.

A dashboard always shows the latest numbers. You can arrange the blocks, take one off and bring it back, and look at the dashboard as it was on an earlier day.

## Pin it to your Home

Choose **Pin to Home** on a question, a list, a dashboard or a number, and it shows under **Pinned** on your own Home. Nothing changes for anyone else, and **Take off Home** removes it again.

## Share with colleagues

A saved question belongs to the team. A question you haven't saved stays private to you until you choose **Share**. To show a colleague a dashboard or an answer, send them its address. They open it with their own sign-in and see what their own access allows. If a table or column is hidden from their role, they get a note instead of those numbers. See [Access and roles](/docs/access-and-roles).

## Download

In the **…** menu on an answer, a list or a dashboard you can download it as Excel, as CSV or as a PDF. You get the rows and numbers your own access allows. [Guardian](/docs/guardian) checks a download before it leaves Adea.

## Public links

On Pro and Business an administrator can make a link that anyone can open, without an Adea account. It can show a dashboard, an answer, an insight or a list.

- **What visitors see.** The numbers as they were when the link was made, or when it was last refreshed. A link can refresh itself every hour or every day, if its maker chooses. A visitor never sets off a new look at your data, and the query behind a number is never shown. Tables on a shared page leave out personal columns.
- **Lists.** A link to a list can be read only, or let guests give their name and email, change statuses and add notes. A frozen copy of a list never follows later changes and stops working after 30 days.
- **Visitors can ask questions.** If you allow it, a visitor can ask about what is on the page. The answer comes only from the numbers shown there, never from the rest of your data.
- **Protect it.** Add a password, a last day, and the sites that may show the page inside their own.
- **Your look.** Shared pages carry your logo and colours, which you set under **Settings**, then **Brand**.
- **Check first.** Making a link sends data out of Adea, so [Guardian](/docs/guardian) checks it and you confirm it.

## Switch a link off

The person who made a link, or any administrator, can switch it off, and it stops working at once. **Settings**, then **Sharing**, lists every public link: what it opens, who made it, how often it was opened and when it stops. Administrators see all of them, and everyone else sees their own.