How to share your RowShare tables?

Once your table fits your needs, that it has the right columns, settings, it's time to share it. After all, RowShare is all about sharing and gathering information from others.

To access your table, someone needs both to be enrolled in your subscription AND to have permissions on that table. Check this article to see how to invite users to your subscription.

As long as you haven't shared a table, you can see the message below. Click on the orange button to share your table.

You then need to decide who you want to share the table with, and what you want to share with them.

1. Who do you want to share the table with?

You can share a table with:

  • All your subscription users. This includes your current and future users. Anyone added to your subscription will get these permissions.
  • A group of users. Groups are defined by subscription admins in the subscription settings.
  • A specific user who is already member of your subscription

For these 3 options, just select the appropriate entry in the drop down menu.

You can also invite a new user by typing its email address.

2. What do you want them to access in the table?

This is unique to RowShare, and maybe one of the reasons why you're using or testing RowShare: you can easily allow users to only access "their own rows". Their rows are:
- rows they have created
- rows someone has assigned to them
This allows to create a unique global table where all the data is consolidated although each user will only see the data relevant to them.

This is where you decide what each user can access in the table, and the specific permissions you want to grant them. This can be simple or... advanced 😉.

2.1. Simple permissions

This is the default option if you share a new table. You have 2 options for each user or group you grant permissions to:

  • access everything: they will see all the rows in the table
  • access their rows only: they will only see the rows they create or that are assigned to them.

2.2. Advanced permissions

Click on Advanced rights at the top right of the permissions panel.

You instantly get more options to control what your users can do. For each user or group of users, you can decide if they will be allowed to:

  • View: do they see nothing, their rows only or everything?
  • Add: are they allowed to add rows in this table?
  • Edit, Delete and Assign : do you allow them to edit/delete/assign nothing, their rows only or everything?

Example: In the picture above:

  • Eric Wallace can view all rows and add new rows. But he can edit and delete only his own rows, and he can't (re)assign any row.
  • Esteban Morin can only view, edit and assign his own rows. He can't add new rows and can't delete rows either.
Depending on your RowShare subscription, you get different permissions options for your tables. The examples above reflect RowShare Corporate and Enterprise abilities. If you have RowShare Team, less granularity is offered: you can only choose between Read and Modify.

3. Who has access to a table?

Once your table is shared, the table will show icons under the table name to remind you who has access to your table. Click on any of these icons to see and/or modify these permissions.

Click on the Share button at the right of these icons to grant access to additional users.

This Sharing bar can only be seen by the table admins.

4. Additional sharing options and details

  • New or modified permissions are only effective after clicking on Save
  • New permissions can be notified by email. But modifying an existing permission never triggers an email.
  • Users registered in the subscription as Read-Only Users will never be allowed to write in a table, regardless of the permissions you grant them.
  • 2 Additional options can be found in the table settings:
    • External Access: This option makes your table available to anyone who knows its URL (web page address). Even if they don't have a RowShare subscription. External Access is read-only, and always shows the full table.
      Allow External Access requires the equivalent setting to be activated in the subscription settings. This can be done by a subscription Admin.
    • One row per user: non-admin users can not create new rows if they have at least one row already assigned to them


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