User context dashboard in sidebar without creating a smart folder

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I had the same pain point!

I did have an idea for a different implementation: having the dashboard inside the user entity as an entity view, rather than as a “Dashboard” view in a smart folder.

Some ideas that would solve this in a more generic sense:

  1. [REJECTED] Option to Hide Folder Name in Smart Folders
    Plus maybe the ability to “Only show views when there is one entity” option in smart folder. This would great for Guests such as clients.

That would solve navigation.

  1. Did you try self relation with auto-linking on Public ID? I didn’t test it, but it should solve the issue, no?
  2. See point 1. “Only show views when there is one entity”

With current tech, the solution I went with for now was having users embed views in their user entity’s rich text field. And those views can be configured and set up by the admin. This is the their “Home”.

But many users didn’t really like this and jusy ended up using favorites or the default Home page. Dashboards are nicer than Rich Text. Soooooooo yeah, Idk.