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Submitted on
Oct 09, 2020
11:11 AM
Submitted by
Jonathan_Lefebv
on
Oct 09, 2020
11:11 AM

Airtable have a loooot of potential for public informations sharing but is currently missing its opportunity. I would not pay for 1000 users as commenters but I would like to let 1000 users to give me their feedback on some records from a base in my Pro Plan. An easy way to do it would be to set “Commenter users” the same way as “Real-Only users”, not considered within the billing. Benefit for a company : Be able to gather a lot of feedbacks on multiples assets & data from the public Benefit for Airtable : More customers & visibility. Since I want to gather some information from a lot of Customer & Suppliers, I will want to invite them all as “Commenter” so they will learn about Airtable and because they will need to create an account they might try and buy. Per example : Share a Kanban Product roadmap and gather suggestions Share a Products Gallery view to gather feedbacks Share a video asset base with mass users to let them clic on a video record, watch it through dashboard (loom or video) and give me their feedback trough the record comment feature.
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Submitted on
Oct 07, 2020
10:55 AM
Submitted by
Sergey_Filimono
on
Oct 07, 2020
10:55 AM

The biggest issue with Airtable for me and many of my clients is that I cannot restrict viewing some sensitive data for new users. Let’s say I have a base which is serving as a CRM and CMS at once. I can’t divide it into two even with Airtable Sync. So I’m adding a new content editor for the CMS tables only and he can see all the money data of my client. This is NOT good at all. I strongly believe that this feature is needed for most professional users of Airtable. The Airtable team has added recently an ability to set editing and deleting permissions — it’s great but it’s not enough at all. Because of this Airtable is a limited tool for me.
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Submitted on
May 27, 2020
05:56 AM
Submitted by
Chameli_Kuduva
on
May 27, 2020
05:56 AM

We are trying to use Airtable to depict information with restriction on copying data and it doesn’t make sense for us to have the print view option. How do I disable it?
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Submitted on
May 17, 2020
07:59 PM
Submitted by
ScottWorld
on
May 17, 2020
07:59 PM

This thread made me realize that we should probably have an option to PREVENT collaborators (particularly read-only collaborators) from being able to easily duplicate an entire base. When we share read-only links to bases or views, we have that option that we can uncheck that says: “Allow viewers to copy the data in this base” or “Allow viewers to copy data out of this view”. But it would be nice if we had that same feature for collaborators.
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Submitted on
May 05, 2020
01:37 PM
Submitted by
ScottWorld
on
May 05, 2020
01:37 PM

It would be really great if locked views ALSO prevented creators from adding brand new fields to that particular view. We had a problem occur today where a creator added several new fields onto one of our locked views, which then threw off another one of our processes — which entailed copying & pasting rows between tables. Once the creator added those new fields into the middle of our view, the copying & pasting of records between tables didn’t work properly anymore — because the fields didn’t match anymore. If a view is “locked”, it would be really awesome if it was TRULY “locked down” — meaning no new fields can be added to that view.
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Submitted on
May 04, 2020
05:31 PM
Submitted by
Holli_Younger
on
May 04, 2020
05:31 PM

As the base collaborator, (sole owner, responsible party, department head, etc.) it would be helpful to make changes to the locked view. Yes, it’s quick to switch the view over, but it’s annoying to do this every single time, even when minor changes are needed. For instance, changing the size of a table. To attempt the change, then realize it’s locked, then We have asked no personal views are made on a specific table due to the fields not relevant to their role in the company. If I have to change the locked view to personal or collaborator every time even a minor change is needed this opens the risk of others following suit and making changes on the whim. I also would love to prevent users from creating a personal view. One of my team members assumes the “lock” means the page is locked (yes, I’ve told him a million times but well…I’ll let your imagination run with that one) so he creates a personal view unlocks hidden fields and fills in the info necessary. problem is - he skips multiple steps and upload in the wrong area because he is using a personal view. Not to mention the ability to unhide information that was hidden and on a locked human resources table.
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Submitted on
Apr 29, 2020
05:20 PM
Submitted by
Jonathan_Lefebv
on
Apr 29, 2020
05:20 PM

The same way you have done the “Field & table editing permissions”, It would be really usefull to add the viewing permission. Example : In my Budgetting Base ; I want all users to see and add their record in the “Expenses table” but I don’t want all of them to see the “Income table” In my HR Base in Hirering Candidate Table ; I want all my managers to see all informations such as the CV, refeence letter, introduction message and modify good points , bad points, comments… but I don’t want them to see the “proposed salary” and “personal phone number”
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Submitted on
Apr 27, 2020
09:01 AM
Submitted by
ScottWorld
on
Apr 27, 2020
09:01 AM

As discussed in this thread, any users of a database are able to share that database with other users, even if the creator didn’t authorize those other users. Furthermore, any users of a database are able to duplicate the database without permission from the creator. The creator is never alerted to any of these actions, either. This is a huge security concern for any business. Creators should be the only ones who are allowed to share the table with other users OR duplicate the table. Period. If the creator wants other people to be able to share or duplicate the table, then they should EXPLICITLY be able to turn on those privileges for specific users. Additionally, if another user shares or duplicates the database, the creator should then be informed of it via email. Otherwise, as it stands now, we have a potential security nightmare.
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Submitted on
Apr 09, 2020
12:04 PM
Submitted by
WilliamPorter
on
Apr 09, 2020
12:04 PM

I know that Airtable is designed to be like the friendly and convenient corner store, not like an Amazon distribution center that uses metal detectors and employs armed security guards. I love that about Airtable.
But the inability to shut the doors to this convenience store is, for me and my clients, a deal-breaking problem. I wish that any (or all) of the following were possible:
Creator should have option to hide the share button for all non-creator users.
If creators aren’t given ability to decide who can share/not share the base, then at least read-only users should NOT have the ability to share. When I think “read only”, I don’t think “read and make a copy for all your friends and let them make copies for all their friends…”.
Finally, it needs to be possible to restrict users to using what they’ve been given. To this end, should be a privileges level just below Editors called perhaps “End Users”. End Users should be allowed to edit data in records but NOT edit locked views. That is, for End Users, the “create private view” button would disappear.
William
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Submitted on
Feb 28, 2020
12:38 AM
Submitted by
Watunyu_Suthach
on
Feb 28, 2020
12:38 AM

We have many users to use one common table. So, if Airtable launches a new feature about permission on each view, please launch it for us. I think it’s very useful.
Thank you
Boat
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