If I set up 3 pages in a doc, but want to give access to just one person per page

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Hello There. I am new to Coda. I am a tutor by profession and use Coda to create notes for my students.
Is it possible to share single pages with selected people and not all students?

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You cannot give access to one page in a doc without giving access to all the other pages in the doc.
However, there are some alternatives. Here is one.

Set up a table where each “page” is a canvas in the row. Display the table in a details view. Use a [People] column to tag different students for that row. Finally, use a filter for the table so that students only see rows where they are tagged. Make sure students have read-only access and cannot change the filter. I wouldn’t use this method if there were really private info, but it is probably the easiest to set up.

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Clever. Never occurred to me.

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You can add one step: create a table with a row storing specific users (students) and a name for their group (1st years, 2nd years etc).

You then filter your table with notes based on which group the current user belongs to.

This way, you can:

  • manage changes in the students and groups in only one place,
  • test what the students can access by putting yourself in one of the groups.

Credits: This very useful technique comes from @Paul_Danyliuk kudos!

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