Oops! Editable shared view update

[Jordan_Scott1]

Hi all -

I hope your week is going well. As you may have noticed this morning, editable shared views was accidentally enabled for all Airtable users and has since been rolled back.

First, I would like to apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused and acknowledge that we know this is a feature that the community is excited about. It has been great to watch people become experts in 30 minutes to share with the community and see all the excitement on Twitter. We know how upsetting it may be that this was accidentally enabled and we want to share some insights into what happened with all of you.

We know that collaboration in Airtable is top of mind for many of you (us too!), and the editable shared view feature is one of the many ways we’ve explored making that experience more impactful. However, we’re not currently prioritizing the development of this feature and are instead focusing on solving this problem in a more comprehensive way.

As Peter mentioned during Table Talk last month, we are planning to do a holistic revamp of permissions and updates to sharing in Airtable and do believe that there’s work to do to make collaboration in Airtable easier, more secure, and more scalable. We want to ensure we are delivering the best possible solution to you to solve this problem and have a team actively working on solutions that we hope to be able to share later this year.

We also recognize that many of you have ideas about changes you’d like to make to Airtable’s collaboration experience. We’d love to hear those ideas in the thread and why they’d be impactful for you. We’ll be taking that feedback, along with everything you’ve shared related to this problem in the Community in the past to help guide our future thinking.

Thank you for your understanding, we really appreciate it and apologize again for any confusion.

[Databaser]

Does Airtable has any idea how ridiculous we consultants will look to our clients now? I for one informed most of them immediately because everyone is waiting for this kind of functionality! This is really not ok, seriously, Airtable has lost so many credit the past months and now this, which is directly affecting our client relations.

Jordan_Scott1:

It has been fun to watch people become experts in 30 minutes to share with the community and see all the excitement on Twitter.

I know this is not your fault, but as a rep for Airtable in this community, I want to make clear how p**** off I am. And this :point_up: is imo not appropriate…

[kuovonne]

Jordan, thank you for posting this. Trying to get the wording right in a situation like this is so hard.

It is also good to hear the reminder that Airtable is working in the background on revamping the permissions model, and that we can expect major changes related to this in the future. There is a lot of invisible work that goes into overhauling permissions.

I hope that the community will be educated about the changes before this major revamp of permissions is rolled out that the community.

In fact, can we get an overhaul of how Airtable communicates feature changes in general? If Airtable had been in the habit of announcing a feature change somewhere at least minutes before rolling out new features, we could check to see if changes we see are a bug, a mistake, A/B testing, or an actual feature change.

Can you also please clarify who currently is able to get access to the editing of shared views? Prior today, selected enterprise users were able to get access to this feature. Is it still possible for enterprise users to request access?

What should people who have already created editable shared views do with them? Will these editable shared views continue to function?

[kuovonne]

Jordan_Scott1:

I hope your week is going well.

This is the second time that I’ve seen you open a post like this and I’ve thought: poor Jordan, her week is not going well because she is forced to set aside whatever else she was working on to write this post.

[Jacob]

Databaser:

ARE YOU *** KIDDING ME

This one should have been left in drafts @Databaser

[Jacob]

Too many questions homie, give Jordan a break lol

[Julien_Mottet1]

my editable shared views are still “on”.

[Databaser]

You’re right of course. Made an edit.

[Allen_Moldovan]

Not your fault Jordan!! While definitely bummed out about the news, I’m optimistic about what’s to come in the near future!

[Jacob]

Respect, hardest thing to do on the internet is admit you made a mistake!

[Rebecca_Elam]

I don’t have the energy to get into how bullshit this is. Getting really tired of airtable. Not the product. The company. Probably one of the least organized I’ve ever seen. This is extremely embarrassing.