Can you share a public grid view of the Airtable in a way that allows people to filter and/or sort however they want but then doesn’t make that the filtering/sorting that everyone else sees? I wasn’t aware of how to do that, which is the sole reason I added the Softr option. I think the set of Airtable views I also link people to is probably indeed better if people are happy with the views (i.e., combos of filters and orders) that I’ve already set up.
Agreed that an all-of-EA version of this would also be useful, and that Airtable would be better for that than Notion, a Forum post, or a Google Sheet. I also expect it’s something that literally anyone reading this could set up in less than a day, by:
duplicating my database
manually adding things from Gittins’ and Taymon’s database
maybe removing anything that was in mine that might be out of scope for them (e.g., if they want to limit the scope to just orgs that are in or “aware of & friendly to” EA, since a database of all orgs that are merely quite relevant to any EA cause area may be too large a scope)
looking up how to do Airtable stuff whenever stuck (I found the basics fairly easy, more so than expected)
You can share this link instead, which is better than the Softr view, and this means people don’t need to get comment access to be able to view the Airtable grid. It also prevents people from being able to see each other’s emails if they check the base collaborators. To find that link, I just pressed “Share” at the top right of the base, and scrolled down to the bottom of that modal/pop-up to find the link.
Ah, nice, thanks for that! It seems that that indeed allows for changing both “Filtered by” and “Sorted by”, including from each of my pre-set views, without that changing things for other people, so that’s perfect!
I still want to provide the comment access version as well, so people can more easily make suggestions on specific entries. But I’ll edit my post to swap the softr link for the link you suggested and to make the comment access link less prominent.
Can you share a public grid view of the Airtable in a way that allows people to filter and/or sort however they want but then doesn’t make that the filtering/sorting that everyone else sees? I wasn’t aware of how to do that, which is the sole reason I added the Softr option. I think the set of Airtable views I also link people to is probably indeed better if people are happy with the views (i.e., combos of filters and orders) that I’ve already set up.
Agreed that an all-of-EA version of this would also be useful, and that Airtable would be better for that than Notion, a Forum post, or a Google Sheet. I also expect it’s something that literally anyone reading this could set up in less than a day, by:
duplicating my database
manually adding things from Gittins’ and Taymon’s database
maybe removing anything that was in mine that might be out of scope for them (e.g., if they want to limit the scope to just orgs that are in or “aware of & friendly to” EA, since a database of all orgs that are merely quite relevant to any EA cause area may be too large a scope)
looking up how to do Airtable stuff whenever stuck (I found the basics fairly easy, more so than expected)
You can share this link instead, which is better than the Softr view, and this means people don’t need to get comment access to be able to view the Airtable grid. It also prevents people from being able to see each other’s emails if they check the base collaborators. To find that link, I just pressed “Share” at the top right of the base, and scrolled down to the bottom of that modal/pop-up to find the link.
Ah, nice, thanks for that! It seems that that indeed allows for changing both “Filtered by” and “Sorted by”, including from each of my pre-set views, without that changing things for other people, so that’s perfect!
I still want to provide the comment access version as well, so people can more easily make suggestions on specific entries. But I’ll edit my post to swap the softr link for the link you suggested and to make the comment access link less prominent.
No problem!