Sharing.

Click Publish, pick who can see it, and Orchid serves your dashboard at <slug>.orchidide.com. Schedule refreshes if you want it to stay current on its own.

Three publish modes

  • Public — anyone with the URL can view. Listed in your public profile if you have one.
  • Link-only — the URL contains a random secret. Anyone with the link can view, but it's not discoverable.
  • Team — viewers must be signed in and on your team. Useful for internal dashboards.

Switch modes at any time from the dashboard's share menu. Changing from public to link-only rotates the URL by default; existing public links 404 unless you opt to keep the slug.

The publish modal with public, link-only, and team radio options, slug input, and an auto-refresh schedule./docs-images/dashboards/share-modal.png
Pick a visibility, pick a slug, optionally pick a schedule.

The URL

Public and team dashboards live at <slug>.orchidide.com. The slug defaults to a normalized version of the dashboard title, hyphenated. You can pick your own slug in the share modal as long as it's not taken.

Link-only dashboards live at orchidide.com/p/<secret> — a random token, no slug, not enumerable.

# A few examples
https://q1-review.orchidide.com           # public, custom slug
https://acme-metrics.orchidide.com        # team
https://orchidide.com/p/8f3a9e2c          # link-only

Auto-refresh

Published dashboards are static snapshots by default — they show the data from the moment you published. Toggle Auto-refresh to have Orchid re-run the source notebook on a schedule and update the published view.

Schedules available: manual, daily, hourly, every 15 minutes.

Tip

For dashboards backed by a warehouse, supply a service-account connection profile so refresh queries run as a known principal — easier to audit and to budget.

Filter state in published views

Viewers can change filters in a published dashboard — the URL updates with the filter state, and you can share the parameterized URL directly. Auto-refresh ignores viewer-side filter changes; it runs against the author-defined defaults.

Unpublishing

Hit Unpublish in the share menu. The URL stops resolving immediately; link-only secrets are revoked permanently (publishing again gets a fresh secret). Your local dashboard file is untouched.

Heads up

Publishing copies the latest output snapshot to Orchid's cloud. Connection credentials stay on your machine — viewers never see them, and refresh schedules use stored credentials supplied separately. More on this in Collaboration → Publishing.

Back to Dashboards overview, related reading at Collaboration → Publishing.