Run reports permission

We have discussed the Run Reports permission in the Report permissions section, and we are not going to repeat that here, but we would like to emphasize that dashboards in Salesforce are based on reports. Each dashboard component in Salesforce is supported by a report as the backend data source.

To allow a user to open or view a dashboard in Salesforce, the user needs to have the permission to run reports, and the dashboard viewing user must have access to the reports used as the data source for the dashboard components. Without the Run Reports permission, the user will get an error message saying You don't have permission to run reports. Check that you have the Run Reports user permission. when opening a dashboard.

Run Reports is a basic permission needed by every user working with reports and dashboards in Salesforce, even to just run or open a report or dashboard.