Hi @anon6366911 ,
I think there is a bit of confusion here about what exactly Baserow Templates are.
A Baserow template is a database design with fake data to help people get started quickly. It isn’t intended to be used as a data set/data model, nor as a source of valid data for people to use. A Baserow template in other words is simply a fake example database showing how you could setup tables to achieve some generic task.
Where-as instead I believe what you want to publish a public dataset of banks.
We do want to support using Baserow as a tool to distribute and collaborate on datasets, in a similar way that Gitlab allows people to distribute and work on code. We haven’t fully figured out exactly how this would look yet.
Do you have any ideas for changes we could make to Baserow to let you easily share your bank dataset and let others use and suggest changes to it? My initial thoughts on missing features that would be needed are:
- Allow easily sharing an entire database publicly
- Allow simple importing of someone else’s database from a different Baserow instance (or baserow.io) into your own self hosted version
- Some way of syncing back changes to the original dataset you “cloned” from
- Some way of discussing a dataset in Baserow itself, both at a higher level but also on a per row/field/table level.
- Some change log per dataset to see what has happened.
- Perhaps even some way of “linking” to a public table in some other Baserow without having to import it at all.