I’m not sure why this feature was removed or if there’s going to be an alternative for it.
I too thought appending .json to the URL was a great feature to have since it checked all of the following boxes:
Restricted users could use it without need for an admin password. This in itself solves many security problems.
Retreival of data is much faster and more efficient than using the backend API. It’s just as costly as visiting the webpage. I was mostly using this to get transactions data.
It reduced the work of reporting to a single click of a button: click, report gets created, get the uuid back, build the url and share just that.
Anyway, @isotherm request seems very reasonable since it should solve part of the issue here.
Also, there’s this other idea for querying of full reports:
As for restricted users, this could be the solution:
I think these three additions would be as good as the previous setup.