Remove Sample Users

[Benjamin_Bachman]

When copying a doc in from the template marketplace a lot of times it comes along with sample users.

Is there a way to remove all of these extra users in a doc when it is copied into our own coda instance? The reason I ask is it is confusing our team on who all these extra folks are and I just want to remove the confusion.

[Rahul]

I have the same issue as well. I removed all the tables which referred the sample users and still I find these people in all the places, in authors etc.

I ended up at looking at my doc map. Apparently, there are still few tables/buttons present but hidden in my pages. Every time I click them to direct me there, it just takes me to a page I once had those elements in. I am not sure whether I did something or if it is a bug.

[Jean_Pierre_Traets]

Dear @Benjamin_Bachman and @Rahul and of course everyone interested in the community.

I just learned from @BenLee that with a right click of your mouse button, you will be able to deactivate the sample user.

Hopefully this will be made more obvious during near future upgrade.

Thank you addressing

[Rahul]

with a right click of your mouse button, you will be able to deactivate the sample user.

Hey, thanks for the reply.
This seems to work in the context of tables, where user profiles have been referenced. Where, indeed I opened the context menu to remove the sample users.

However, if you have “Authors” enabled under pages. There, all the sample users are still present.

[Benjamin_Bachman]

@Rahul yes I noticed that as well. Thanks for pointing that out. I am wondering if these can be removed as well.

[Benjamin_Bachman]

Coda… any chance we can get the page author sample users to be removed as well?

[BenLee]

This one caused a little more of a headache to solve. We have been looking into this and it is being worked on.

Here are some of the parts of the project we’ve been rolling out to improve both people you have to choose from and removing people that are not your actual contacts…

Launched: Clear Non-Referenced People for Copied Docs

Some of our favorite docs help organize peopleーaround tasks, events or even just to play games over Zoom. If you share or publish a doc that @-mentions people or includes a table with a people column, others who copy the doc will inherit the selectable people for that doc. We’ve heard your feedback that this isn’t ideal behavior, and today we’re launching an update that clears non-referenced people when your doc is copied. (As a reminder, you can disable the copy button for your published docs…

Launched: Share with your Google Contacts

Docs bring ideas, teams, words and data together to collaborate, work, and inform. But we’ve heard that sometimes it’s tricky bringing your entire cohort of collaborators together in a doc due to limitations with sharing. When you click ‘Share’ and begin entering the name of a collaborator, not much happens unless you know their email address by heart or your workspace is configured to help you auto-complete colleagues’ names. We’re changing that, and making it easier to share docs with your Go…

Launched: G Suite Directory Pack [TEAM]

Coda has supported integrations with apps from Google for quite some time now, including Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive. If you’re using these tools with a team, odds are you’re using them as part of G Suite. To help teams on Team or Enterprise Coda plans stay organized, we’ve launched the G Suite Directory Pack! Use the / command or Explore Panel to install the Pack to build tables and tools that leverage your G Suite Directory information. [Screen Recording 2020-06-17 at 03.34 PM] …

[Benjamin_Bachman]

None of these quite solve the issue of removing people from the “author” dropdown in a doc that came over from a template.

[BenLee]

These are items that are part of the journey to get there. But like I mentioned above, it is being worked on.

[Martin_Senkerik]

Hi, any progress please?

[Alice_Ly]

Hey Martin! This hasn’t been resolved yet but a workaround that has worked for some folks would be to make another copy of the doc; that should remove the sample users. I’ve seen this work for the people picker in tables. Thanks for giving that a try and let me know if it helps!

[Martin_Senkerik]

Hi Alice, thanks for your response! I will consider the copying solution.

[Rev.Christopher_Wulff]

I just tried right-clicking on each one and had the option to “remove from list” so it looks like that’s one option now. It would be nice if they were removed when copying a template, but this is okay for now.

[P_C]

Where are we on this? It’s super annoying when assigning tasks to see half a dozen random profiles connected to my private doc.

[P_C]

Copies aren’t really an option when you have hundreds of Integromat / Zapier integrations using the existing table address.

[Mina_Okpi]

Hey @P_C ,
Mina here, sorry you’re encountering this issue!
Did you give @Rev.Christopher_Wulff s suggestion of right-clicking and selecting “remove from list” a try?

I’d be happy to help you more via Coda support. Can you write in to us there Support@Coda.io.

Will keep an eye out for your message.
~Mina