Shared views

A data view — grid, kanban, calendar, timeline, gallery, list — can be shared read-only: a link /v/<jeton> shows it to people who cannot open basedb, without letting them write anything. It is the counterpart of shared forms, which let people respond without letting them read anything. A dashboard is shared the same way.

Sharing

The view’s menu → Share…, then:

Access	Who reads
Public	anyone with the link, no account needed
Signed-in members	a member of the workspace, after signing in — optionally, from certain groups only

The Link active switch suspends the link without losing it. The page opens outside the application: no sidebar, no base name, no table name — the view, its filters, its columns, and nothing else. A calendar or a timeline reads there like a calendar app.

On whose behalf it is read

The view is read with the permissions of the person who published it, decided again on every read: a field hidden from them is not shown, and if they lose access to the table, the link stops showing anything at all.

Embedding in another site

Check Allow embedding on other sites: the dialog gives an <iframe> embed code, to paste into an intranet, a wiki, a company website. Without that box, the page refuses to be displayed inside another site’s frame.

A calendar in your calendar app

For a calendar or a timeline shared as public, the dialog gives the calendar feed address: an iCalendar feed (…/calendar.ics, 1,000 events at most) that Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar can subscribe to. The team’s deadlines appear in everyone’s calendar, and follow the table.

A source for other bases

A public link also gives the view’s API address: the rows it shows, in JSON. A synced table — on this instance or another — can use it as its source.

Limits

• Reading is limited to 120 requests per minute, per address and per link.
• A form is not shared for reading: it is shared to receive responses.