# Make a report in Amazon Connect read-only
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To prevent others from saving changes to your report, you can make the report read-only before sharing it.

Making your report read-only means the report can be read but changes cannot be saved. If a user tries to make changes to a read-only report, they can only save their changes by using the **Save as** option, which makes a new copy of the report.

When a user who is not the report owner views the **Share report** dialog box, the **Read-Only** toggle is disabled.

**To make a report read-only**

1. After you create and save a Dashboard, Real-time metrics, Historical metrics, or Login/logout report, choose **Actions**, **Share report**.

1. In the **Share report** dialog box, set the **Read-only** toggle to **On**, and then choose **Save**. This toggle is shown in the following image of the **Share report** dialog box.  
![\[The toggle to make a report Read-only.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/connect/latest/adminguide/images/reports-readyonly.png)

    When this toggle is **On**, no user—*including the report owner*—can save changes to the report settings: Interval & Time range, Groupings, Filters, and Metrics.

**To allow changes to a report**

1. Set the **Read-only** toggle to **Off**.

1. Anyone who already has a shared link to the report will now be able to make changes to it. You don't need to send them a new link to the report. 

## What users see when they view a read-only report
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Users can still make changes to the report settings but they won't be able to save them to the report. The **Save** button on the report page is disabled. A message is displayed, **This Report is read-only and cannot be modified**, as shown in the following image. 

![\[A reports page with the Save button disabled, and a message that the report is Read-only.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/connect/latest/adminguide/images/reports-readonly-message.png)


When a user who is not the report owner views the **Share report** dialog box, the **Read-Only** toggle is disabled, as shown in the following image.

![\[The Read-only toggle in the disabled state, in the Share report dialog box.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/connect/latest/adminguide/images/reports-readonly-disabled.png)