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There are three ways to get a chart in front of your team: share the URL of an exploration in progress, share a saved chart, or download the results or an image.

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Share a draft URL

As you explore data, the URL holds a unique link to your work in progress. Copy it and anyone with access to your Lightdash project lands in the Explore view at exactly the point you’re at. The link gets long when a chart carries a lot of configuration, so use the built-in link shortener to grab a short one.
The link shortener button in the Explore view

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Share a saved chart

Create a new saved chart, or update an existing one, with the Save chart button on the chart panel. You’ll have the option to save to a space or a dashboard.
The Save chart button on the chart panel
Everyone in your project can reach a saved chart, as long as they have access to the space you saved it to. They can find it under Browse → All saved charts, or you can send them the URL directly.
Browsing all saved charts

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Download results or a chart image

Click the export icon on a chart to download it as JPEG, PNG, SVG, PDF, or JSON, with an opaque or transparent background. You can download the file or copy it to your clipboard.
The chart export menu
You can also download the results table as a CSV or an Excel spreadsheet, or export it to a Google Sheet if your organization has that set up.
The results table export menu

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Choosing how many rows an export contains

The download dialog also asks how the values should be written — Formatted keeps the table’s presentation, Raw uses the underlying values — and, for interactive viewers and above, the result scope:
  • Table rows exports exactly the rows currently loaded in the table.
  • All results runs the query for the full result set.
  • Custom exports the number of rows you enter.
Viewers don’t get the result scope choice; their downloads contain the visible table rows. Every export is bounded by your organization’s export limits: a CSV or Excel file can hold at most the configured number of cells (rows × columns), so All results means as many rows as fit under that cap, and a custom row count above it is reduced to it. Excel files are additionally capped at 1,000,000 rows. Exporting to Google Sheets has no row choice.