Public Document Sharing: The $64 Million Question

I find it hard to understand the concept of the Copy Doc button.
Any Coda user can copy and use MY content?

I get the idea of distributing templates, but you should let users choose if they want to give the template away, all the more so - the content.
What am I missing here?

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How is progress with sharing “viewing” privileges to people with no associated Google Account? As a contract project manager with multiple clients not interested in the frustration of migrating organisational domains to Google Accounts, this is a major roadblock.

We’re looking at solutions for this, but no ETA.

Publishing did launch though if you haven’t checked it out which might be a possibility for you!

If I understand publishing correctly, it becomes a fully “public” document. I don’t think my non-Google-associated clients would like that very much :slightly_smiling_face:

You’re right, publishing is public.

An account would be required in someway or another to verify someone has permission to view a doc. As far as other logins go, things are in the works, I just don’t have an ETA at the moment.

Hey Ben. This is just to give a +1 to the desirability of allowing user accounts to be opened with any email address, and without the need for a separate identity provider like Google or Azure AD.

We’re a law firm, and there are literally hundreds of use cases where Coda would be the perfect tool for reporting to clients, collaborating with clients, and even delivering “self-help” legal advice tools. We’d want our people to sign in with SSO (and we are super-keen on the IT admin console and SOC II compliance when they arrive), but we’d want our clients to be able to sign in with their work email addresses, without the need for their organisation to do an identity integration. There are a number of examples already where I’ve used Airtable for client collaboration, because they allow sign-up by email, and they enable particular forms/views to be shared with all users from a particular email domain. Of course, functionally Airtable is not that much better than Excel (okay, it’s a lot better than Excel, but not a patch on Coda), but I would love to see Coda leap over some of the practical hurdles here. No doubt this sort of things is on your radar already - I believe resolving this will contribute massively to “bottom up” adoption of Coda.

I realise adding “sign-up with email” is a non-trivial undertaking, and you folks are delivering dozens of other features at an astonishing rate. So this is intended only as my 2c worth, and not as a complaint!

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Hi @Tim_Sherman,

You’re right that email login is not a trivial feature to implement. It does take a good bit of time and effort to implement. We’ve got out eye on it though!

Ben

Hey all, I’m the PM working on non-google login. Just wanted to pop in and say that is very, very close. So hold on tight!

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Hah, thanks @BenLee and @jerols. That’s not meant to put pressure on anyone - especially at a time like this! Just happy to know you’re inching your way towards the goal. :grin:

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Hi Ben,

Just seeing if there is an ETA on this and more controls on sharing content? Thanks!

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