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Does the content of shared table view links auto-update?

  • October 11, 2018
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I want to show a shared table view with shared table view link at the office on a TV in Kiosk mode. I have a Raspberry Pi running a browser in Kiosk mode to power the TV.

Here’s the question: does the shared view auto-update itself?

If I just leave running on TV, and then edit some info in my computer, are those edits reflected on the TV? I guess I could hack the browser to automatically refresh itself, but it would be more convenient if the shared links already worked like that :slightly_smiling_face:

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    • Elias_Gomez_Sai
    • Inspiring
    • 1124 replies
    • October 11, 2018

    Yes, as said in the help article:

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    • ivan_paudice
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    • 10 replies
    • June 28, 2019

    Yes, as said in the help article:


    Hello Elias, I’ve read the article many times, I’ve looked anywhere, but I found no help in having a shared view to auto-update. Please notice we are talking about shared VIEW, not BASE, thus, no log-in from the viewer. If I share a base with a user he can see my entire base, which is a NO go for me.

    I hope you can help, thank in advance.

    Kamille_Parks11
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    Hello Elias, I’ve read the article many times, I’ve looked anywhere, but I found no help in having a shared view to auto-update. Please notice we are talking about shared VIEW, not BASE, thus, no log-in from the viewer. If I share a base with a user he can see my entire base, which is a NO go for me.

    I hope you can help, thank in advance.


    Shared views update as well.

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    • ivan_paudice
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    • 10 replies
    • June 28, 2019

    Man , i’ve tried so many times… I’d be so happy you were right. Unfortunately they don’t. Monday morning I’ll make a video from the office demonstrating it.

    Kamille_Parks11
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    I think I misunderstood. Both shared views and tables update on page refresh. If you want to share ‘live’ edits, you would have to share the whole base in ‘Read Only’. I know you don’t want to share the whole base, so you/the person you’re sharing the table with will have to stick to refreshing the page.

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    • W_Vann_Hall
    • Inspiring
    • 1386 replies
    • June 29, 2019

    Man , i’ve tried so many times… I’d be so happy you were right. Unfortunately they don’t. Monday morning I’ll make a video from the office demonstrating it.


    It’s something of a kludge — ok, it is a kludge — but a painless work-around is to use an automatic refresh extension in the browser. You can find a [rather verbose, admittedly] discussion of the problem and potential solutions in this earlier post.

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    • ivan_paudice
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    • 10 replies
    • July 4, 2019

    @W_Vann_Hall we have developed a dashboard for a client, something with this structure (but of course different content). The client will share this dashboard internally in the company. There is simply no WAY to ask the client to instruct every employee to install a plug-in e set it up. It is a large corporation.

    @Kamille_Parks We implemented a workaround on refreshing and updating the data.
    When there is inactivity on the page for a certain amount of time, as soon as the user starts interacting with the page again (mouse movement or keyboard press) the page refreshes right away. In that way, they have the data refreshed before starting to interact again with it.
    The following code refreshes the page if the user is inactive for more than 1 minute. It is easily customisable by changing the seconds (60000sec = 1min)

    //REFRESH on inactivity
 var time = new Date().getTime();
  var yetVisited = localStorage['visited'];
 //var count = 0;
 
 $(document.body).bind("mousemove keypress", function(e) {
            if(new Date().getTime() - time >= 60000) {
         window.location.reload(true);
      } else {
     time = new Date().getTime();
     }
     
 });
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    • W_Vann_Hall
    • Inspiring
    • 1386 replies
    • July 4, 2019

    @W_Vann_Hall we have developed a dashboard for a client, something with this structure (but of course different content). The client will share this dashboard internally in the company. There is simply no WAY to ask the client to instruct every employee to install a plug-in e set it up. It is a large corporation.

    @Kamille_Parks We implemented a workaround on refreshing and updating the data.
    When there is inactivity on the page for a certain amount of time, as soon as the user starts interacting with the page again (mouse movement or keyboard press) the page refreshes right away. In that way, they have the data refreshed before starting to interact again with it.
    The following code refreshes the page if the user is inactive for more than 1 minute. It is easily customisable by changing the seconds (60000sec = 1min)

    //REFRESH on inactivity
 var time = new Date().getTime();
  var yetVisited = localStorage['visited'];
 //var count = 0;
 
 $(document.body).bind("mousemove keypress", function(e) {
            if(new Date().getTime() - time >= 60000) {
         window.location.reload(true);
      } else {
     time = new Date().getTime();
     }
     
 });

    All the plugin does is implement a timed window reload. If you’re using an embedded view, you should be able to accomplish something similar using meta refresh — which might be less annoying than refreshing on inactivity, since the user wouldn’t typically have to wait for the page to reload. The OP had a situation where they needed to refresh a shared base, not a shared view.

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    • Anup_Jogani
    • New Participant
    • 3 replies
    • November 10, 2019

    Shared views update as well.


    Hey. I’ve noticed that the share link also doesn’t refresh right away even when the page is refreshed. Is the data push to the link on a timer? Or is it a caching issue ?

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    • mojtaba_farsian
    • New Participant
    • 3 replies
    • July 3, 2022

    @W_Vann_Hall we have developed a dashboard for a client, something with this structure (but of course different content). The client will share this dashboard internally in the company. There is simply no WAY to ask the client to instruct every employee to install a plug-in e set it up. It is a large corporation.

    @Kamille_Parks We implemented a workaround on refreshing and updating the data.
    When there is inactivity on the page for a certain amount of time, as soon as the user starts interacting with the page again (mouse movement or keyboard press) the page refreshes right away. In that way, they have the data refreshed before starting to interact again with it.
    The following code refreshes the page if the user is inactive for more than 1 minute. It is easily customisable by changing the seconds (60000sec = 1min)

    //REFRESH on inactivity
 var time = new Date().getTime();
  var yetVisited = localStorage['visited'];
 //var count = 0;
 
 $(document.body).bind("mousemove keypress", function(e) {
            if(new Date().getTime() - time >= 60000) {
         window.location.reload(true);
      } else {
     time = new Date().getTime();
     }
     
 });

    Sorry, I didn’t understand your script.
    When I copied this code into the airtable script, I encountered several errors. It is possible to explain more about it please?!

    kuovonne
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    • kuovonne
    • Brainy
    • 6009 replies
    • July 3, 2022

    The script is not an Airtable script. It is designed to be a part of the webpage in which you embed the shared view.

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    • mojtaba_farsian
    • New Participant
    • 3 replies
    • July 3, 2022

    The script is not an Airtable script. It is designed to be a part of the webpage in which you embed the shared view.


    Thanks a lot.
    Is it possible to tell me how to use this code to solve my problem?

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    • peach1
    • New Participant
    • 1 reply
    • November 6, 2024

    @W_Vann_Hall we have developed a dashboard for a client, something with this structure (but of course different content). The client will share this dashboard internally in the company. There is simply no WAY to ask the client to instruct every employee to install a plug-in e set it up. It is a large corporation.

    @Kamille_Parks We implemented a workaround on refreshing and updating the data.
    When there is inactivity on the page for a certain amount of time, as soon as the user starts interacting with the page again (mouse movement or keyboard press) the page refreshes right away. In that way, they have the data refreshed before starting to interact again with it.
    The following code refreshes the page if the user is inactive for more than 1 minute. It is easily customisable by changing the seconds (60000sec = 1min)

    //REFRESH on inactivity
 var time = new Date().getTime();
  var yetVisited = localStorage['visited'];
 //var count = 0;
 
 $(document.body).bind("mousemove keypress", function(e) {
            if(new Date().getTime() - time >= 60000) {
         window.location.reload(true);
      } else {
     time = new Date().getTime();
     }
     
 });

    Hi @ivan_paudice - where do you input this code? I added the scripting extension and pasted and I'm getting this error. 


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