---
name: "account_dashboard_link"
area: "account"
title: "Get a link to an area at a glance"
price: "free"
method: "POST"
url: "https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/account_dashboard_link"
mcp_server: "https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/account"
auth: "Authorization: Bearer <conecto_sk_ key>"
docs_url: "https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_dashboard_link"
---

# Get a link to an area at a glance (`account_dashboard_link`)

A one-time link to a page showing one area at a glance, made when it opens from what this key may read.

A one-time link to a page showing one area as it is when the page opens, for when the person you work for asks to see it themselves: a recruiter looks at the applicants, a bookkeeper at what is due. Do the work and answer with the area's own tools first; a link never replaces that. When an answer would be a long list they would rather look through, offer a link and make it once they say yes. The page is made from the area's own reads as this key, so it shows only what this key may see. It opens once and keeps for an hour; an unopened link ends after 7 days.

Price: Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month for the whole account, then $0.50 per 10,000 reads. A call that fails costs nothing.

## Use it when

The person you work for asks to see an area themselves: a recruiter wants to look at who was screened, a bookkeeper at what is due. Do the work and answer with the area's own tools first; a link never replaces that. When an answer would be a long list, offer a link and make it once they say yes.

- For finding what the person asked about and answering yourself, use [account_search](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_search.md).
- For a page with exactly the numbers you choose, use [view_show](https://conecto.chat/tools/views/view_show.md).

## Say this to your agent

> Send me a link where I can see which applicants were screened and who is still waiting.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description | Allowed values | Default |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `area` | string | yes |  | `"analytics"`, `"code"`, `"crm"`, `"calendar"`, `"chat"`, `"account"`, `"admin"`, `"email"`, `"helpdesk"`, `"documents"`, `"esign"`, `"hiring"`, `"outreach"`, `"prospects"`, `"lookups"`, `"companies"`, `"longlists"`, `"mergers"`, `"valuation"`, `"newsletters"`, `"notify"`, `"projects"`, `"schedules"`, `"speech"`, `"uptime"`, `"vault"`, `"web"`, `"tables"`, `"links"`, `"images"`, `"files"`, `"forms"`, `"helpcenter"`, `"imports"`, `"invoices"`, `"books"`, `"inventory"`, `"whistleblowing"`, `"connect"`, `"microsoft365"`, `"googleworkspace"`, `"hubspot"`, `"salesforce"`, `"directory"`, `"hr"`, `"social"`, `"purchasing"`, `"phone"`, `"websites"`, `"views"`, `"visibility"`, `"markets"` |  |

## Example

Written for Halverson Cycle & Repair, a bike shop with a repair workshop in Portland, Oregon.

MCP: call `account_dashboard_link` on the MCP server `https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/account` with these arguments:

```json
{
  "area": "hiring"
}
```

REST:

```bash
curl https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/account_dashboard_link \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CONECTO_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"area": "hiring"}'
```

## Response

```json
{
  "call_id": "5f0c8a2e-3b7d-4c1e-9a64-2d8e1f7b0c93",
  "tool": "account_dashboard_link",
  "status": "succeeded",
  "replayed": false,
  "cost_usd": "$0.00",
  "balance_usd": "$19.75",
  "result": {
    "area": "hiring",
    "link": "https://cncto.co/v/syAn7gfvUAYGi8a8DZSg_eYG",
    "opens": "once",
    "expires_at": "2026-10-21T08:00:00+00:00",
    "note": "The first browser that opens it keeps it for an hour; anyone else is told it was used. Make another link for someone else."
  }
}
```

`result`: area, and link: the one-time link, opens (once), expires_at and how it opens. The page holds every record of the area this key may read, as tables, boards and an overview, never secrets or sign-in links, and a link whose key was revoked or narrowed since shows nothing.

## Errors

| Code | Status | When | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| `key_scope` | 403 | This key, its team or its person may read none of the area, or the area is whistleblowing and the key is not a handler's own AI app. | Ask for a link to an area the key works in; whistleblowing pages are for the channel's handlers. |

The refusals every tool can give (401 key, 402 balance, 429 limits) are on the errors page: https://conecto.chat/docs/errors.md

## Related

- [account_balance](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_balance.md): The balance, this key's daily budget, auto-reload, and how much of the month's free reads and downloads is used. Free.
- [account_refund_topup](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_refund_topup.md): Refunds a top-up from the last 24 hours that none of has been used: the credit, with its tax, goes back to the card, and the service fee is kept. Free.
- [account_owner_link](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_owner_link.md): A one-time link that signs the business owner into their Conecto page, without a password. Free.
- [account_get_limits](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_get_limits.md): The limits Conecto raises on request, each with its standard and current value, and the business's requests with their answers. Free.
- [account_request_limit](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_request_limit.md): Ask Conecto to raise a limit: which one, the number the business needs, and why. Free.
- [account_events](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_events.md): What happened lately, oldest first: applications, bookings, form responses, signatures, replies, emails, website goals and the agents' own events. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.
- [account_emit_event](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_emit_event.md): Sends an event the agent names, custom.<name>, to the channels subscribed to it and to account_events. $0.005 per channel it goes to.
- [account_search](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_search.md): One search across the business's files, table rows, help articles, CRM, emails, tickets, invoices, books, stock and tasks. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.
- [account_list_calls](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_list_calls.md): The business's recent calls, newest first, optionally only the failed or the succeeded ones, or one area's. Free.
- [account_get_call](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_get_call.md): One call by its call_id, with its status, cost and result. Free.
- [account_get_brand](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_get_brand.md): The name, logo, colour and footer line the business's emails and published pages carry. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.
- [account_set_brand](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_set_brand.md): Sets the sender name, logo, colour and footer on every email to customers and on the business's published pages. $0.001 a call.
- [account_list_email_templates](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_list_email_templates.md): Every automatic email to the business's customers, with its subject, headline, opening words and {variables}. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.
- [account_set_email_template](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_set_email_template.md): Rewrites an email's subject, headline or opening words in the business's voice; the times, amounts and links below them stay. $0.001 a call.
- [account_export_all](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_export_all.md): Everything the account holds, as ZIP files in its file store: every record as JSON Lines and the stored files, credentials left out. Free.
- [account_audit_log](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_audit_log.md): The account's admin and security actions, newest first, with a check that none was changed or removed. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.
- [account_save_team](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_save_team.md): Makes or changes a team: the areas its keys may use, a monthly budget that refuses or warns, and its ERP cost center code. $0.001 a call.
- [account_list_teams](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_list_teams.md): The account's teams with their areas, budgets, this month's spend, ERP codes, keys and people. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.
- [account_pause_team](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_pause_team.md): Stops every key of a team at once, until the owner starts it again. Free.
- [account_assign_team](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_assign_team.md): Gives a form, a number, an inbox or another thing to a team, so its charges land there. $0.001 a call.
- [account_set_owner_email](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_set_owner_email.md): Sends the business's owner a link to confirm they own the account, when it has no owner email yet. Free.
- [account_add_approval_rule](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_add_approval_rule.md): Makes a tool wait for a person's approval: every call, or calls over a limit, approved by an email, a channel or a team's managers. $0.001 a call.
- [account_list_approval_rules](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_list_approval_rules.md): The tools that wait for a person's approval, with their thresholds and approvers. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.
- [account_find_person](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_find_person.md): Every record the account holds about one person, by email or phone, with each kind's count and ids. Free.
- [account_export_person](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_export_person.md): One person's records and files in one ZIP in the file store, with a download link to give them. Free.
- [account_erase_person](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_erase_person.md): Erases one person across every area and says what it kept and why, like invoices the law keeps. Free.
- [account_data_locations](https://conecto.chat/tools/account/account_data_locations.md): Where each area's data is stored and processed: the company, the country or region, and what it holds. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.