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.

[naawbd]

Might future enhancements include the ability for enterprise admins/designated users to share specific interfaces publicly instead of allowing 'all or none'? Would love to see this permission be assignable, similar to how scripting access is controlled. 

[Tuxie]

We have a (manual) production environment where we need to show open tasks on some bigger screens. These are basically TVs so being able to show open tasks on a public page is awesome. However what's not so great is that we need to pull from multiple tables to show open tasks.. It's super easy to do this with the blank pages but obviously they're not supported by this feature thus making it kind of impossible to use Airtable for managing the team... Any chances on being able to show any page via public link? 

[Chase]

Will the new Overview Layout get support for Public Sharing?

[MettaSong]

I am very excited about this new option!

[ScottWorld]

Hi @Ayesha_Bose ,

We have discovered a problem with the public sharing of interfaces.

We created a list interface and then shared it publicly.

We also enabled the advanced option to "Allow users to export data as CSV".

However, when the user tries to export data as CSV from the publicly-shared interface, Airtable gives them an error message that they can't export data as CSV.

Thank you!
- ScottWorld, Expert Airtable Consultant

[MrR4P70R]

I paid a Team plan just to share publicly this new Interfaces thing, So I shared the 2 pages of my App, opened the full app and shared the link, people have to create an Airtable account to access the full app, even if it's read-only... what's the point to do that ?

More importantly, how can I share "publicly" a full app ?

[Martin_Malinda]

@MrR4P70R 

If all your interfaces are shared publicly you can link between them. But you need to make sure that each interface button uses the public interface link. So technically you need to use "Go to External Url" and put there the public url of another shared interface.

This way you can connect multiple public interfaces together.

[TheTimeSavingCo]

@MrR4P70RHmm, so you clicked on 'Share publicly' and created a link from there, and users who accessed that link needed to create an account?  If so, I'd recommend opening a support ticket as that's not supposed to happen