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sarahurstwrites
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

I'm an author, and I use Scrivener to write my manuscripts. As you can imagine, keeping up with characters and all their details is a necessity but until I started using Airtable and up until late last night when I had an "ah ha" moment, it's been a nightmare. 

Last night, I configured a base to keep tract of characters and locations. I then created a character development form to fill out when plotting and designing the story. Another "ah ha" moment later and I remembered that I can add webpages to Scrivener as documents and they will open up in the editor pane as if the webpage is a part of Scrivener. So, I grabbed the share view link for the form as well as the Gallery view for the characters of the book series I'm working on and attached them to the Scrivener file. 

Everything is working beautifully, but it will not allow me to edit the character records in this view within Scrivener. It says I need to login or create an account even though I've got the base open in another tab. When I click the login button, it opens yet another Airtable tab. I've attached screenshots.  

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Share views are a "Read Only" permission level. When it asks you to log in, it's promoting you to look at your data through the Airtable UI rather than the shareable view.

I'm not familiar with Scrivener. Would it work if you used the URL straight from Airtable without using the "share link"?

Unfortunately, you won't be able to edit any data through the share link.


Justin Ng
Programme Coordinator at Sistema Aotearoa
https://www.sistemaaotearoa.org.nz/

Hmm I don't think you can embed an Airtable page that's editable; embeddable pages such as the Shared Views and Public Interfaces are read-only I believe

Perhaps one of the third party portals allow you to display/edit the data directly?