# Publish and User access **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective\ **Created:** [July 17, 2025, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/publish-and-user-access/108597 "2025-07-17T08:24:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mahalakshmi.b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@mahalakshmi.b](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mahalakshmi.b)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/publish-and-user-access/108597/1 "2025-07-17T08:24:13Z")
I’m building a dashboard in the Ignition Perspective module. How do I properly publish my Perspective project and share it with users so they can view the dashboard? Also, how can I configure or limit access so that only people in my organization can open and use it? ---
**Author:** ![danielps1818](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@danielps1818](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/danielps1818)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 9:43am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/publish-and-user-access/108597/2 "2025-07-17T09:43:31Z")
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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 9:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/publish-and-user-access/108597/3 "2025-07-17T09:51:04Z")
> How do I properly publish my Perspective project and share it with users so they can view the dashboard? When you launch the project from Designer it will open a browser window. Copy the URL and share it with your users. > Also, how can I configure or limit access so that only people in my organization can open and use it? Most Ignition instances are inside a company firewall so they are only accessible to people inside the organisation anyway. If the gateway is exposed to the Internet or you need to limit access for other reasons then Ignition's inbuilt security will do what you need. As Daniel has suggested, start with the online training. ---
**Author:** ![mahalakshmi.b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@mahalakshmi.b](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mahalakshmi.b)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:48am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/publish-and-user-access/108597/4 "2025-07-21T06:48:12Z")
Thank You. I will look at them ---
**Author:** ![mahalakshmi.b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@mahalakshmi.b](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mahalakshmi.b)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/publish-and-user-access/108597/5 "2025-07-21T06:51:20Z")
When the project is launched and the URL is shared with others, they are not able to open it. It appears like this ![image (5)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/e/2/e2a945b7b2678a4ede8ed09547948cad7ea589ca.png) ---
**Author:** ![nideyijuyidong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7cd45c/32.png) [@nideyijuyidong](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nideyijuyidong)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/publish-and-user-access/108597/6 "2025-07-21T06:56:46Z")
If you are on a local area network with other people, replace localhost with your IP address. ---
**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/publish-and-user-access/108597/7 "2025-07-21T07:35:12Z")
> [@mahalakshmi.b](#): > > When the project is launched and the URL is shared with others, they are not able to open it. That's because you are using Designer on the gateway machine. When you launch the project it uses `localhost` which is a kind of IP loopback to itself. If you share that then the other user's browser will look for the gateway on _their_ PC / laptop. In production setups Designer is used on a separate PC, not on the gateway. Tip: before taking screengrabs, resize the window to just contain the relevant data. Yours is about 90% whitespace and has to be magnified to read the URL. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/publish-and-user-access/108597/8 "2025-07-21T12:03:38Z")
> [@Transistor](#): > > In production setups Designer is used on a separate PC, not on the gateway. While especially true for production, I would say it applies to development, too. Don't run designer's on the same machine as the gateway. If you are connecting to `localhost`, you are either screwing up, or setting yourself to screw up. (Containers may technically be connecting via localhost, but you should be using the container names, not `localhost`.) ---
**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/publish-and-user-access/108597/9 "2025-07-21T12:50:24Z")
> [@pturmel](#): > > If you are connecting to `localhost`, you are either screwing up, or setting yourself to screw up. Or, like me much for much of my forum work, I'm at home with my laptop running a gateway and designer on the same laptop to test out my answers. I'm not connected to anything else. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/publish-and-user-access/108597/10 "2025-07-21T13:01:07Z")
For training and quick hitters for the forum, I can understand. But not for any real development. Use VMs or containers in your laptop. My primary workstation is my souped-up laptop, that goes wherever I go. It has multiple VMs and containers defined and ready, for isolated dev work. It does not have any gateway installed on the bare metal OS.