Share filters in public view

Feature Ideas
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Hi!

One feature that we imagined would be to allow to share filter together with a view. By default, filters hide rows that are not accessible in the shared view but it would relevant to share filters that can be (des)activated in the shared view.

For instance, it’s relevant in at least two cases:

  • to share a view to people who are not familiar with Baserow/filters
  • to share a view in which by default some data are hidden by filters but those filters can be deactivated

This could be done by adding a menu in the « share view » widget where we can select the filters we want to « share » and choose whether they are activated or not in the default public view.

Hope this can be useful to other projects :slight_smile:

Cheers,
asan

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Hello @asan, noted! I’ll discuss the feature idea with the team. Thank you for explaining your use case. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hey @asan, here’s an update on the feature request!

We like the idea and believe it will be very useful for many people. As the first step, we are going to introduce a feature that allows showing all filters in the shared view. Then, we will add a setting to choose which filters you want to display in the shared view as you suggested. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hi!
Does this mean that when activated this new feature will allow any users the public view to see any data on the table by just deactivating any filters? For now, when a filter is activated, filtered data are not readable on the public view.
Thanks a lot for your work!
asan :fox_face:

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Hey @asan, no-no, viewers will be able to use filters to sort through the already shared data.

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Hi!
Thanks for your answer!
However I’m not sure to understand your point. Users can already use filters in public view. Is the feature going to allow to pre-define filters and share them within a view?
asan :fox_face:

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Hey @asan, my bad, I was thinking about a different feature. Apologies for the confusion. So:

This means the table owner will have the option to show or hide all filters in the shared view.

Here, we will add settings to choose which filters to show or hide on the shared view.

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Thanks. It’s clear to me now :slight_smile:
Thanks for the job!
asan :fox_face: