# Reporting usability tweaks with filters **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Features\ **Created:** [October 30, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/reporting-usability-tweaks-with-filters/9914 "2025-10-30T00:38:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AdVhPkgKad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7993a0/32.png) [@AdVhPkgKad](https://community.fibery.io/u/AdVhPkgKad)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/reporting-usability-tweaks-with-filters/9914/1 "2025-10-30T00:38:44Z")
I would like to set up a dashboard for each person in our organisation, so adding this context filter option inside the reports (like everywhere else) would be appreciated. Also, making “global” report filters unable to be turned-off by users, to prevent them from a) accessing data that they shouldn’t, and b) prevent them from messing with the reports. ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/reporting-usability-tweaks-with-filters/9914/2 "2025-10-30T14:00:59Z")
> [@AdVhPkgKad](#): > > I would like to set up a dashboard for each person in our organisation, so adding this context filter option inside the reports (like everywhere else) would be appreciated. Dashboards support [context filters](https://the.fibery.io/@public/User_Guide/Guide/Dashboard-View-421/anchor=Context-Dashboard-View--7725b817-b02e-494c-9c96-05e428e77f00), which should apply to all widgets. > [@AdVhPkgKad](#): > > Also, making “global” report filters unable to be turned-off by users, to prevent them from a) accessing data that they shouldn’t, and b) prevent them from messing with the reports. There are three different types of filters on reports: - source data filters (set during configuration, can’t be changed) - general visualisation filters (set during configuration, can be disabled by viewers) - user-chosen visualisation filters (set/changed per user) It sounds like you need to use the first type. ---
**Author:** ![AdVhPkgKad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7993a0/32.png) [@AdVhPkgKad](https://community.fibery.io/u/AdVhPkgKad)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/reporting-usability-tweaks-with-filters/9914/3 "2025-10-30T23:03:33Z")
> [@Chr1sG](#): > > Dashboards support [context filters](https://the.fibery.io/@public/User_Guide/Guide/Dashboard-View-421/anchor=Context-Dashboard-View--7725b817-b02e-494c-9c96-05e428e77f00), which should apply to all widgets. How? Doesn’t seem possible without using the smart folders, and here’s the thing—I don’t want to make User the root entity in a smart folder; it just gets too messy, and looks terrible. > [@Chr1sG](#): > > It sounds like you need to use the first type. Not unless I want to be making a separate widget for each of my charts or metrics. Each of the tabs is using a different filter over the same dataset. I don’t want users to go in and turn them off because it’ll throw out all the reports since, knowing my users, they won’t turn them back on. ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/reporting-usability-tweaks-with-filters/9914/4 "2025-10-30T23:30:04Z")
> [@AdVhPkgKad](#): > > I don’t want to make User the root entity in a smart folder Where were you thinking the dashboards would live? > [@AdVhPkgKad](#): > > I want to be making a separate widget for each of my charts or metrics. Each of the tabs is using a different filter over the same dataset. Just checking I understand - you want a dashboard context filtered per user, and the dashboard will contain multiple report view widgets. Or did I miss something? You mention tabs though, so I’m confused. But yes, it’s true that you can’t have multiple source filters (one per tab) within the same report. ---
**Author:** ![AdVhPkgKad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7993a0/32.png) [@AdVhPkgKad](https://community.fibery.io/u/AdVhPkgKad)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/reporting-usability-tweaks-with-filters/9914/5 "2025-10-31T00:27:36Z")
> [@Chr1sG](#): > > Where were you thinking the dashboards would live? I was hoping it could be an extension of the Home tab, or if there could be a single “flat” page per user account at the root of the default workspace (i.e., you specify a context for the dashboard based on the logged-in user, not based on the filter applied to a smart folder) > [@Chr1sG](#): > > Or did I miss something? Two different issues. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/f/f49ec47ad176ae55838fc2f711c7f68a2b6e2598.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/8/82afe5adb9eb7a004286578c1625a9b7b9db1fd2.png) They can turn this filter off. Each state is already filtered for them, so they shouldn’t touch it (but they will). ---
**Author:** ![AdVhPkgKad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7993a0/32.png) [@AdVhPkgKad](https://community.fibery.io/u/AdVhPkgKad)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/reporting-usability-tweaks-with-filters/9914/6 "2025-10-31T01:22:17Z")
Never mind. Just close this. I don’t care, I’ll just filter everything manually ---
**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 7:13am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/reporting-usability-tweaks-with-filters/9914/7 "2025-10-31T07:13:09Z")
> [@AdVhPkgKad](#): > > I was hoping it could be an extension of the Home tab, or if there could be a single “flat” page per user account at the root of the default workspace (i.e., you specify a context for the dashboard based on the logged-in user, not based on the filter applied to a smart folder) It was a deliberate decision that the Home page was something that could be personalised by each user, so unfortunately, it’s not possible for Admins to force a view on other users. I think the closest you can come to that is a smart folder of Users with the filter ‘is Me’ (so that everyone sees only one item - themself). > [@AdVhPkgKad](#): > > They can turn this filter off. Each state is already filtered for them, so they shouldn’t touch it (but they will). Did you consider just using a formula in the calculation of each metric, instead of using a filter?