I tried using interface designer and it is a very cool feature. One thing I would suggest to have is a sharing the interface like a view. For example, I would like to share particular interface in read only mode and do not want the user to be able to go and see all contents of the base. Currently, if I give read-only permissions the user can go and see all tables in the base.
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Interface sharing option suggestion
+20Best answer by Josh_Brown
This option is now available per the new Connected Apps announcement. That being said, still no info on if you have to pay for collaborators on Interface-Only view
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+4100% Agree. I understand they want to charge for each added collaborator. Just having another option to Hide/Show the base makes sense if we are looking to bring abstraction of a base complexity with an Interface, to higher-up stakeholders.
They don’t want to see the base.
+11This post is so popular that I think Airtable team should make some type of statement about these user considerations regarding Interfaces sharing.
I am yet another user in a sea of thousands who wishes to share interfaces as link-based view. I want to be able to summarize the data I have aggregated in airtable to certain interested parties without giving them access to my entire base. Airtable, please considering prioritizing this!
+3Interfaces is an amazing improvement but without the option to share via link as we can do with views is a total waste of time.
Panels with data summaries are very handy but I don’t want everybody to have full access to the database in order to access an specific summarie panel. It is easy to understand.
Let us love Airtable more than yesterday but less than tomorrow.
Jose, completely agree with you!!!
Let Airtable’s Devs know about it as it supposes to be a basic feature
Bumping again - being able to share / publish / embed these interfaces and dashboards in (or with) the public domain would be absolutely huge. Thanks.
Adding my vote. Interfaces are amazing, and because they’re amazing, that’s the view I want to embed on my website for the public to see, not the table behind it.
Agree with everyone here. We want to create dashboards to share particular information with our clients (about their data!). Having to create a whole new, paying user account for each one seems ridiculous! It should just be easy.
+12Plus 10 here! Seems like this is a highly requested feature, and honestly one that should have been a no brainer. Any news on this?
Interfaces are an amazing way to organize info for people that aren’t in or you don’t want to have access to the main base, unfortunately we can’t share with anyone that way! Should also be mobile friendly!
Please!!
+2+1 for this feature. But unlike the shared views, please make the pages auto-update, so changes don’t require manually browser refreshes. Thank you.
+2+1 we need to be able to share interfaces with non-airtable users and also embed on our internal website for view only
If limiting sharing to email is a way for Airtable to get more people to register, it’s going to flop - especially at the Enterprise level. The sharing paradigm through a link as a view only or permissions-based is something that’s well established with Airtable, why switch it up now? I have a lot of information in my interface that would benefit my entire org to see - but no one currently can since I don’t want to require they all log-in first…
Adding in another request. I build an interface for bakers to view and manipulate recipes on their ipads in the kitchen. Upon completion, I have spent hours down the rabbit hole only to find that this is not possible. I feel my whole investment in airtable is a loss unless I can share my interface with my client on an ipad. As a database nerd, I am loving the program. But I bought into the idea of building a DB with a user interface so my clients who are not data people have a safe way of interacting with the data without harming it. I don’t understand withholding this function, as I thought this was the whole point of Airtable. Thank you for listening.
+1 We have built Airtable out as our pricing, project management, and options tool which we need to be able to interface with clients without allowing them to see all of our base table data. The interface we created has our delivery slots along with payment due dates, milestones for each slot, and the model options available for each slot including model pricing. In the backend there are many variables included in the rollup cost. Now clients are asking to see what they can they buy, for how much, and when will it be delivered. When will payments be required? Oh sorry, we can’t show you our interface that gives you all that info… so frustrating! Please fix this so we can send a link to anyone.
+11I will say it again: the silence of Airtable Team about this absolutely popular request is something difficult to understand. Are they deaf? Or do the have an strategy the don’t want to reveal? Second option is probably the right answer but we all are impatient. we need this feature now!! :pray:
I beseech you Airtable! Please, please, please can we share interfaces like views. I can’t imagine why it’s so hard, given you already allow sharing views. Its the end of May 2022 and we are still begging???
My GOD. I just spent weeks designing a data dashboard that kills. Only to learn that what I assumed would be baseline functionality (the ability to create a view share read only link for the interface) is not something you can do. This is a major blocker, what was AirTable thinking?
My thoughts exactly.
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