# Copy Dashboards to Users

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* When you copy a dashboard to a user, you create a disconnected copy.
* You can no longer make changes to this dashboard afterward.
* If you want to make a change to this dashboard, you must create a new one and copy it to all users again. You might have to delete the existing dashboard.
* The user to whom you copied a dashboard could make changes to the dashboard, which could have undesirable consequences.

Therefore, please note the new function [↗ Global Dashboards](/collection/platform/live-cockpit/global-dashboards.md).

With "Global Dashboards," you can create a single dashboard and then share this dashboard with any number of users. Changes to this dashboard can only be made by you.
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You can copy one or more dashboards from one user to one or more other users.

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1. Make sure you are in the "Dashboards" menu
2. Click on "Copy to user"
3. Select a user.
4. All dashboards of this user are displayed
5. Select one or more dashboards that you want to copy
6. Select one or more users to whom you want to copy the selected dashboards.

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If the "Copy to user" menu item is not visible or not clickable:

You do not have sufficient permissions to copy dashboards. To be able to copy dashboards to users, your role must have the [↗ "Manage" permission](/collection/mandatory-base/platform-core/workspace-and-identity/users/manage-user-access-rights.md) for the [↗ "Dashboards"](/collection/platform/live-cockpit.md) section.
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