Snapshots not working as expected with future data

Grafana
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Hi. My first post here!

I have been enjoying Grafana using influxdb to collect data on some of my IOT sensors.
Recently I am now using an online weather API to graph weather forecasts and it is working great.

So I thought I would try to share using a snapshot.
The snapshot is created(either local or raintank), but when accessing via the link no data is displayed.
I have found that once the time range button is pressed, and any time range selected then the graph is displayed correctly. Is this a bug or by design?

Secondly if I were to send the snapshot URL to somebody else, they are able to create further snapshots from my snapshot and therefore share it with different parameters. Is there a way to prevent this?

I am using version 7.2.0 on a pi zero
Thanks

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hello and congratulations to your first project. can you share your snapshot link ?

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Thanks. I would rather know about the sharing issue before posting publicly.

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no i mean as input to analyze your problem

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Sorry I don’t understand what you mean by as input?
Here is a screen capture of what I get

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yes then okay thank you

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Basically it is because when the snapshot is displayed, it displays up to the current time which is not correct. When I click on the time range button and select a value it shown times in the future i.e.correctly as per the original dashboard.

Any ideas why a person viewing is able to re-share?

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you can share by clicking on the share button

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So suppose I create a public snapshot that expires in 1 hour.
Someone could then reshare publicly with no expiry.

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basically what i meant, you can accept my answer as solution then

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@grumpazoid Did you ever figure out your issue about only getting snapshots to work after pressing the time range button? Sorry this is an old thread but I’m having the same issue.