# Ability to have granular scope for data explorer?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-have-granular-scope-for-data-explorer/362351>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** data-explorer, user-api\
**Created:** [April 17, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-have-granular-scope-for-data-explorer/362351 "2025-04-17T15:31:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 30, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-have-granular-scope-for-data-explorer/362351/9 "2025-05-30T16:47:36Z")

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> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> Sounds to me like what you are asking for, and which seems a good idea a lot of communities would benefit from, is a setting like `data_explorer_allowed_groups` which lets you provide full access to [data explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) to more groups in addition to admins.

The reason not to do that is that it gives those people full (though read-only) access to everything in the database–passwords, IP addresses (which moderators have), all of the secrets in SiteSettings, and probably some other stuff. OTOH, it is read-only, so it’s not the SAME as being an admin. Oh, also, the secrets needed to log in as someone else if you have a login link sent.

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