New: Share public interface pages publicly

[Ayesha_Bose]

Hello! I’m Ayesha, a Product Manager here at Airtable. We’re so excited to share an improvement to interfaces that will let you share some page types publicly in a read-only format. You can share a link to these pages or embed them in other websites.

What are publicly shared interface pages? 

Most interface pages can now be publicly shared and can be accessed by a non-Airtable user without being logged in. These pages are read-only and your audience will be able to filter, sort, search, and expand details on your page.

How do you create a publicly shared page?

After you have published one of the supported page types, the share dialog will feature a new “Share Publicly” tab. Turning on the switch will enable public sharing using a unique link that is generated when the toggle is turned on.

What does a public page look like?

You can check out a real example at https://www.airtable.com/whatsnew!
We’ve embedded a public interface page that shows our recent launches.

Other common questions:

What page types are not supported for public sharing?

• Any pages made from the Blank layout option
• Record summary
• Record Review
• Dashboards created before February 2024
• Form layouts within Interfaces
• Legacy record detail layouts

What controls can I set for who can access an interface?

• Similar to Shared Views, you can set a password or restrict access to your link to a specific domain.
• Enterprise Scale admins have the ability to turn off public sharing for their org, in addition to enforcing additional domain or password restrictions.

How can my audience comment or edit data on my interface page?

• Public pages do not support editing. They will need to be given access and open the full version of the app in Airtable to edit.

Other questions? Check out our support article.

We’re looking forward to hearing what you think, please let us know if you have any questions.

We’ve been testing this out in a beta state over the last month and really appreciate all the feedback! If you’re an enterprise customer, please reach out to your account manager with any questions.

[Chase]

Will the pages currently not supported get support in the near future? Also is the decision to allow for read only concrete, or might we have the ability to allow for comments in the future?

[Ayesha_Bose]

@Chase: We're exploring adding support for the record review layout soon. For other page types, like Blank or any of our legacy layouts, we aren't planning to support those. Is there a specific layout that you're trying to share?

We are planning to keep these public links to read-only, but are actively thinking about ways we can help a broader set of external collaborators get access to an app to comment / edit. If you have a particular use case that you want to flag, that would be really helpful for us to take into account as we explore this.

[Chase]

@Ayesha_Bose: Support for record review & record summary layouts would be wonderful. We do use Blank layouts some, but we could do without them if needed. We have shifted away from Legacy layouts so we would not need them.

I would understand that in order to edit users would need to be on our enterprise license, but I would love to see a way for non-enterprise users to access our interfaces to comment specifically. I would hope this would be acceptable as the comments do not interact with the record data, but I do understand if there are other plans in the works.

Thank you for the quick response!

[Damian_Wlod]

The most important thing is to make the dashboards available to others. it won't work 😞

[jonahp001]

is this feature not available for free users? I'd love to implement this, but i'm seeing that its only available for Team users-- is this true?

[Tristan-ARG]

It would be nice if the shared view can be filtered based on an email. 
What I want to do for instance, is to share summary of all the operations that each client has, now I can share it but I need to create a view for each one, which is quite slow. Would be nice if I can share and the information is filtered automatically by an email (or any lookup field). 

The next logical step would be to let them edit some info, but I understand this runs against airtable's bussines model. But at least the possibility to share it with some dynamic filters will be interesting.

Is this in any roadmap of AIrtable?

Thank you!!

[Valdemar_T]

@Ayesha_Bose thanks for great news. Is it really working? Testing by creating new interface just with a bar chart, but somehow it doesn't show option to share publicly? Is it really working?

[bitstreams_red]

It appears to work ok but it won't let you click in to a record view unless you open the full app. This is a bit of a pain as I wanted to keep a clean and simple display rather than have the app margin on the left.

[Robert_William1]

@Ayesha_Bose We are on a premium plan but I do not have public sharing capabilities anywhere in my Interface share popup. Is there a setting I need to turn on? 

[Robert_William1]

@Ayesha_Bose disregard. I now see that you can't share from "edit" section. It has to be shared after you've exited edit.