<h2>Share a report</h2><br/><div style="overflow-x:auto"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="generator" content="DITA-OT" /><meta name="DC.type" content="task" /><meta name="DC.title" content="Share a report" /><meta name="abstract" content="Control which users and groups can see a report in their Reports list." /><meta name="description" content="Control which users and groups can see a report in their Reports list." /><meta name="DC.subject" content="sharing reports, Share a Core UI report, Share a report in the classic environment" /><meta name="keywords" content="sharing reports, Share a Core UI report, Share a report in the classic environment" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../use/reporting/concept/c_DistributeReports.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../use/performance-analytics/concept/c_performanceAnalyticsAndReporting.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../use/reporting/concept/classic-vis-overview.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../use/reporting/reference/reporting-landing-page.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../use/reporting/concept/c_GenerateReports.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../dashboards/task/t_ControlAccessToADashboard.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../concept/c_AdminsteringReports.html" /><meta name="DC.contributor" content="joe.silber" /><meta name="DC.contributor" content="courtney.bradwell" /><meta name="DC.creator" content="ServiceNow" /><meta name="DC.date.created" content="2023-08-03" /><meta name="DC.date.modified" content="2024-10-21" /><meta name="DC.format" content="XHTML" /><meta name="DC.identifier" content="t_ShareASetting" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../CSS/commonltr.css" /><title>Share a report</title></head><body id="t_ShareASetting"> <div class="breadcrumb"><a class="link" href="../../../use/performance-analytics/concept/c_performanceAnalyticsAndReporting.html" title="Optimize processes and increase productivity with the Platform Analytics applications. These applications include Reporting, Performance Analytics, User Experience Analytics, and Process Mining. Present data through either the Core UI or the Platform Analytics experience.">Analyze and optimize business processes</a> > <a class="link" href="../../../use/reporting/concept/classic-vis-overview.html" title="Present analytics on Core UI dashboards through reports and Performance Analytics widgets. Explore Performance Analytics indicators on the Analytics Hub.">Reporting, dashboards, and Performance Analytics in the Core UI</a> > <a class="link" href="../../../use/reporting/reference/reporting-landing-page.html" title="ServiceNow Reporting enables you to create and distribute reports that show the current state of instance data, such as the number of open incidents of each priority. 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Learn how to create, run, edit, view, and share reports.">Using reporting</a> > </div> <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Share a report</h1> <div class="body taskbody"><p class="shortdesc">Control which users and groups can see a report in their Reports list.</p> <div class="section prereq p" id="t_ShareASetting__prereq_n2z_2xd_3db"> <p class="p">Role required: report_admin, report_global, or report_group.</p> <p class="p"><span class="ph">This topic refers to Reporting in the Core UI.</span> If your instance is migrated to Platform Analytics experience, see <a class="xref" href="share-dv-ac.html" title="Share a visualization to provide view or edit permissions to users, groups, or roles. A user can access a shared visualization in any workspace on the original instance.">Share a data visualization in the Visualization Designer</a>.</p> <div class="p">The following roles can share reports: <div class="tablenoborder"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" id="t_ShareASetting__table_pfs_kl1_nmb" class="table" frame="border" border="1" rules="all"><colgroup><col style="width:50%" /><col style="width:50%" /></colgroup><thead class="thead" style="text-align:left;"><tr class="row"><th class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d340497e81">Role</th><th class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d340497e84">Report sharing permissions</th></tr></thead><tbody class="tbody"><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e81 ">report_admin</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e84 ">Can share a report that is shared with the user, any group, or everyone. This role can share with:<ul class="ul" id="t_ShareASetting__ul_c1d_vd1_vdb"><li class="li">any user</li><li class="li">any group</li><li class="li">everyone</li></ul> The report_admin can also edit reports.</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e81 ">report_global</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e84 "><ul class="ul" id="t_ShareASetting__ul_zc2_nd1_vdb"><li class="li">Can share a report that is shared with everyone. This role can share with everyone.</li><li class="li">Cannot share a report that is shared with the user or a group</li></ul> The report_global user can also edit reports that are shared with everyone.</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e81 ">report_group</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e84 "><ul class="ul" id="t_ShareASetting__ul_b1r_d21_vdb"><li class="li">Can share a report that is shared with the user, or a report shared with a group the user belongs to. This role can share the report with:<ul class="ul" id="t_ShareASetting__ul_wtm_bh1_vdb"><li class="li">any user</li><li class="li">any group</li></ul> </li><li class="li">Cannot share a report that is shared with everyone, or with a group the user doesn’t belong to.</li></ul> The report_group user can edit reports that are shared with the groups they are members of.</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e81 ">report_publisher</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e84 ">No sharing permissions.</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e81 ">report_scheduler</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e84 ">No sharing permissions.</td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e81 ">report_user</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e84 ">No sharing permissions.</td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </div> </div> <div class="section context"> <div class="p">You can control who sees reports by making them:<ul class="ul" id="t_ShareASetting__ul_oqy_qmc_gr"><li class="li">Globally visible to all users</li><li class="li">Visible only to you if you are the report creator.</li><li class="li">Visible to one or more specific users</li><li class="li">Visible to one or more specific groups</li></ul> </div> <div class="note" id="t_ShareASetting__note_amg_mjj_sz"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> The permissions of a report can constrain the number of users or groups you can share a report with. For more information, see <a class="xref" href="t_RestrictRepCreationWAnACLRule.html" title="Create an access control list rule to restrict who can create a report on a table, data source, or database view.">Restrict report creation with an ACL rule</a>.<p class="p">It is not possible to grant edit rights on a report when you share it.</p> </div> </div> <ol class="ol steps"><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">Navigate to <span class="ph menucascade"><span class="ph uicontrol">All</span> > <span class="ph uicontrol">Reports</span> > <span class="ph uicontrol">View / Run</span></span> and select the report you want to control.</span> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">In the upper right side of the report form, click the <span class="ph uicontrol">Sharing</span> icon (<img class="image icon" id="t_ShareASetting__image_stj_ctr_xw" height="20" src="../../../common/image/Form_ShareIcon.png" alt="Sharing icon" />) and select <span class="ph uicontrol">Share</span>.</span> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">In the Sharing settings dialog box, fill in the fields and click <span class="ph uicontrol">OK</span>.</span> <div class="itemgroup info"> <div class="p"> <div class="tablenoborder"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" id="t_ShareASetting__table_czf_tlh_yq" class="table" frame="border" border="1" rules="all"><caption><span class="tablecap"><span class="table--title-label">Table 1. </span>Sharing settings</span></caption><colgroup><col /><col /></colgroup><thead class="thead" style="text-align:left;"><tr class="row"><th class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d340497e282">Field</th><th class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" id="d340497e285">Description</th></tr></thead><tbody class="tbody"><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e282 ">Visible to</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e285 "><div class="p">Users to whom the report is available. You can select the following options:<ul class="ul" id="t_ShareASetting__ul_cfk_wlh_yq"><li class="li"><span class="ph uicontrol">Me</span> Only you can view the report. This option is only available to you on the reports that you create.</li><li class="li"><span class="ph uicontrol">Everyone</span> All users can view the report. However, you can select required roles, and only users with at least one of those roles can view the report.</li><li class="li"><span class="ph uicontrol">Groups and Users</span> Only specific groups and users can see the report.</li></ul> </div> <p class="p">The <span class="ph uicontrol">Groups and Users</span> option is visible to users with the report_group role.</p> </td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e282 ">Requires role</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e285 "><p class="p">(Optional) Roles from the Roles [sys_user_role] table. If you select any roles, a user must have at least one of them to view the report. If you do not select a role, all users can view the report.</p> <p class="p">You can specify required roles only for reports that are otherwise visible to Everyone. If you modify such a report to be shared with specific Groups and Users, the required roles no longer apply.</p> </td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e282 ">Groups</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e285 "><p class="p">Groups whose members have permission to see the report.</p> <p class="p">This field is available when the <span class="ph uicontrol">Groups and Users</span> option is selected.</p> </td></tr><tr class="row"><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e282 ">Users</td><td class="entry cellrowborder" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d340497e285 "><p class="p">Users who have permission to see the report.</p> <p class="p">This field is available when the <span class="ph uicontrol">Groups and Users</span> option is selected.</p> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </div> </div> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">Click the <span class="ph uicontrol">Sharing</span> icon (<img class="image icon" id="t_ShareASetting__image_mlg_pfg_cy" height="20" src="../../../common/image/Form_ShareIcon.png" alt="Sharing icon" />) and select <span class="ph uicontrol">Add to Dashboard</span> or <span class="ph uicontrol">Publish</span>.</span> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">Share the dashboard or share the URL of the published report.</span> <div class="itemgroup info">You can share the URL of the published report with any user, role, or group with whom you have shared the report.<p class="p">To publish a report, enable the property <span class="keyword parmname">glide.report.published_reports.enabled</span>. For more information, see <a class="xref" href="t_PublishAReport.html" title="Publish a report to create a URL that anyone can use to access the report, including people who are not users. When anyone navigates to the URL, the report is generated with current data from the instance. Reports are available until they are unpublished.">(Legacy) Publish a report</a>.</p> The people with whom you share the report must have rights to view the report data.</div> </li></ol> </div> <div class="related-links"> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent Topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../../../use/reporting/concept/c_DistributeReports.html" title="Distribute reports to provide business information to other users.">Distribute reports</a></div> </div> <div class="linklist relinfo relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br /> <ul class="linklist"><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../concept/c_AdminsteringReports.html" title="Learn about the tasks report administrators typically perform, the objects that they work with, and the roles and rules that apply.">Administering reports</a></li></ul></div> <div class="linklist relinfo reltasks"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br /> <ul class="linklist"><li class="linklist"><a class="link" href="../../dashboards/task/t_ControlAccessToADashboard.html" title="Share a dashboard with other users to create a shared view of data that you can use to collaborate. You can give other users viewing rights or both viewing and editing rights.">Share a responsive dashboard</a></li></ul></div> </div> </body></html></div>