# Problem with the Dashboard Tutorial

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/problem-with-the-dashboard-tutorial/8442>\
**Category:** 📊 Plotly Python\
**Created:** [February 19, 2018, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/problem-with-the-dashboard-tutorial/8442 "2018-02-19T12:19:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![empet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/977dab/32.png) [@empet](https://community.plotly.com/u/empet)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/problem-with-the-dashboard-tutorial/8442/2 "2018-02-19T13:14:33Z")

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@Karachay You should have a Plotly account to post the plot on the Plotly cloud. To sign up go to this page:  
[https://help.plot.ly/how-to-sign-up-to-plotly/](https://help.plot.ly/how-to-sign-up-to-plotly/) and click on `SIGN UP`, in the upper right corner.

Once you have an account choose `Settings` from the upper right dropdown menu, and then click on the `API keys` and `Regenerate Key`. Copy the generated key and save it somewhere to use it when you post a new plot. Namely, sign in via the line of code, inserted before `py.iplot()`:  
`py.sign_in('your_username', 'your_API_key)`

That’s all 🙂

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