Issue 3057: shorter links for custom dashboards
Status:  New
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Reported by m...@not.mn, Dec 11, 2014
Gerrit custom dashboards are great, but they require URLs which are quite long (often over 1000 characters long). This makes them unwieldy to share, often resulting in using external link-shortening services.

I would like to see shorter links that are easier to share without needing to use bitly, goo.gl, etc.


Dec 12, 2014
Project Member #1 edwin.ke...@gmail.com
You can define project dashboards with short URLs:
  https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/user-dashboards.html#project-dashboards
Dec 12, 2014
#2 m...@not.mn
That's looks pretty convenient. However, I'm not actually the administrator of the gerrit instance I use and don't have the ability to push code there.

Instead I have to generate custom dashboard URLs and share them with others on my team. My current solution, because the links are so unwieldy, is to use a link shortener service or to use a wiki. Both introduce additional systems and make generating and sharing links harder.
Dec 13, 2014
Project Member #3 edwin.ke...@gmail.com
> I'm not actually the administrator of the gerrit instance
You don't need to be Gerrit administrator, but only project owner to make use of project dashboards, or you may ask the administrator to globally allow read/write access to refs/meta/dashboards/ to enable project dashboards.