# Readonly dashboard view
**URL:** https://community.silverbullet.md/t/readonly-dashboard-view/4082
**Category:** Tricks & Techniques
**Created:** [April 25, 2026, 4:08am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/readonly-dashboard-view/4082 "2026-04-25T04:08:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@schmavery](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/schmavery)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2026, 4:08am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/readonly-dashboard-view/4082/1 "2026-04-25T04:08:10Z")
Hi all,
Been reading a few posts about various ways of disabling edit access in certain situations (mobile etc). Thought I'd share that approach I set up the other day.
Sorry if it's too basic for this channel 😆
I set `dash:index` to be my start page because it's mostly just links to journals, tasks etc, and I rarely want to edit it.
````auto
---
description: Read-only mirror dash:
tags: meta
---
```space-lua
-- priority: 6
-- Mirrors page "dash:" from real page "" (read-only + footer link).
-- Do not create dash:.md or it shadows this behavior.
virtualPage.define {
pattern = "^dash:(.+)$",
run = function(source)
local ok, body = pcall(function()
return space.readPage(source)
end)
if not ok then
return "# Page not found\n\nCould not read **"
.. source
.. "** (`"
.. source
.. ".md`). It may be missing, offline, or not reachable yet.\n"
end
return body
.. "\n\n---\n\nRead-only [[DashViewRouter|dashboard]] — edit source: [["
.. source
.. "]]\n"
end,
}
````
---
### Author:  [@thepaperpilot](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/thepaperpilot)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/readonly-dashboard-view/4082/2 "2026-07-21T16:38:55Z")
I've noticed that a caveat to using this library is that when viewing the readonly version of a page, the command palette will also hide things like the library manager.