Removing Unwanted "Shared" Dashboards

I had reached out for a similar problem and unfortunately there wasn't a great way to do things in bulk or streamline the process.

If you are an Admin in Analytics, you can "take over" someone's dashboards, which is what I did to do some cleanup without having to log in as a former user. If you click on the shared dashboard and then on the three dots on the right you can "Switch to Owner's View." Once you are viewing it as the owner, you can republish the dashboard and either un-share it from yourself or change to become the owner if it's a board you want to keep maintaining.

Unfortunately you can't take their folder structure, but once you take ownership you can then move the dashboards into your own folder structure. This method is particularly helpful if you want to take over some dashboards that have been shared with other users that you'll want to build upon. I also moved some of those previous dashboards into an "archive" folder in case I need to reference them later.

Early on with Analytics, I saw a presentation where they talked about this exact thing. We took it to heart to start off with a plan. If anyone in our Org creates a dashboard that they feel should be zoo-wide, it comes to the Sys Admin (me) and along with our Finance SME, we verify it is accurate and pulls correctly. When it is validated, I become the Owner (of all "official", shared dashboards) and we put them into a structured Folder System. 

We started off this way to avoid the headaches of trying to determine who owns what and who should get asked to share which one, etc. Everyone knows that I am the one who can share anything.

There is nothing to say that individuals can't have their own dashboards to slice & dice as they need, but in that case, we encourage everyone to have a Folder named "Mark's Dashboards" for personal use. This approach has worked well for us!

Early on with Analytics, I saw a presentation where they talked about this exact thing. We took it to heart to start off with a plan. If anyone in our Org creates a dashboard that they feel should be zoo-wide, it comes to the Sys Admin (me) and along with our Finance SME, we verify it is accurate and pulls correctly. When it is validated, I become the Owner (of all "official", shared dashboards) and we put them into a structured Folder System. 

We started off this way to avoid the headaches of trying to determine who owns what and who should get asked to share which one, etc. Everyone knows that I am the one who can share anything.

There is nothing to say that individuals can't have their own dashboards to slice & dice as they need, but in that case, we encourage everyone to have a Folder named "Mark's Dashboards" for personal use. This approach has worked well for us!