Dashboard sharing reference qualifiers

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title: Dashboard sharing reference qualifiers
description: Use reference qualifiers to limit the users, groups, and roles and to provide more information in the recipients field of shared dashboards.
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topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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breadcrumb: [Share a dashboard, Working with in-line dashboards, Dashboards, Platform Analytics experience, Platform Analytics]
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# Dashboard sharing reference qualifiers

Use reference qualifiers to limit the users, groups, and roles and to provide more information in the recipients field of shared dashboards.

## Before you begin

Role required: admin

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **System Definition** > **Tables**.

2.  Open the **par\_dashboard\_permission** table.

3.  Press Ctrl+Click on the Preview Users button \[Omitted image "InfoIcon.png"\] Alt text: info buttonnext to User on the **Columns** tab to open the its dictionary entry.

    Move to the Users Column label to see this button.

    \[Omitted image "preview-buttons-sched-export.png"\] Alt text: Preview Users and Preview Groups buttons on the Columns list of Par Notification Email Recipients

4.  If you're in the wrong application, select the link to edit the record.

    \[Omitted image "app-mismatch-msg-sched-export.png"\] Alt text: Mismatched application message with link to edit the record

5.  On the Reference Specification tab of the dictionary entry, use the condition builder to add filter conditions to the Users, Groups, or Roles list.

    For example, configure the reference qualifier condition \[Name\] \[starts with\] \[b\]. Only users whose names start with the letter B will show up in the list of users in the recipients list when sharing a dashboard.

6.  Select **Update**.


## What to do next

[Show more information in the Share Dashboard window](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/now-intelligence/share-db-ref-qualifiers-more-info.md)

**Parent Topic:**[Share a Platform Analytics dashboard](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/now-intelligence/share-db-in-ac.md)