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Thank you so much Jornh, I appreciate your input.

In addition to your suggestion there may be a way to combine this per the response to the following post by passing the user id and or group id to a locked parameter within the embed. Does that sound viable?

How do I filter question based on logged user

I’d like to filter a query based on username of logged user. How can I do that to customize data for my sales team? Thanks in advance, Sergio Gabriel

PS, Oh, yes, you indicated as much in this post to AndrewMBaines! Now how to tie that to a group, a Metabase group or some group defined elsewhere?... It has possibilities, I'll have to study this.

Application embedding versus public embed

I’ve spent the morning unravelling the mysteries of JWT with C# (details in another post) to embed dashboards using application embedding rather than public embedding. I’d hoped that it would give my users extra functionality to filter lists, but they can still only sort columns. The final dashboard embedded in an IFRAME appears to have no advantages over using the much simpler public link. Other than the potential security advantage of having a really long string for security, is there any o…