Any model can be published as a set of read-only web pages that anyone with the link can open, with no account and no sign-in. This is sometimes called a public view of the model: a listing of its documents, plus one page per document.
Publishing a model
- Open the model and choose Model actions → Edit model.
- Tick Public.
- Optionally change the Permalink slug — the readable part of the address. It starts out based on the model’s plural name.
- Choose Save changes.
Once Public is ticked the dialog shows the page’s address with a Copy button next to it, but nothing is published until you save. A published model then carries a green Public badge in the models list and on its own page.
Publishing is something you do to a model you have already created, so the option is not offered while you are creating one.
What visitors see
The listing page is headed with the model’s plural name and lists its documents newest first, 25 to a page, each linking to its own page. An empty model says “Nothing published yet.”
Each document page shows the document’s title and then every field that has a value, each with its label. Empty fields are left out. Values are formatted for reading: links, email addresses and phone numbers are clickable, dates and amounts are formatted, ratings show as stars, select options show as coloured chips, rich documents keep their formatting, and attached images show as thumbnails that open the full image. A back link returns to the listing.
The pages are plain, fast HTML: they need no JavaScript and always use a light theme.
What stays private
Publishing one model never exposes another:
- A Relation field pointing at a model that is not published is hidden. If only some of a document’s links point at published models, only those are shown.
- Document cards embedded in a rich document are hidden too, unless the document they show belongs to a published model.
Nothing else in the workspace is reachable from a public page: not other models, not the workspace’s members, not the document’s history.
Links that keep working
The address is made of a short permanent id plus a readable slug — /p/books-x7k2… for the listing, with each document’s page beneath it. Only the id is used to find the page, so renaming the model, changing the permalink slug or retitling a document never breaks a link you have already shared; the old wording still leads to the same page.
Unpublishing
Untick Public and save. The pages stop being served and their links return “Not found”. Browsers and proxies may keep showing a page they already have for up to a minute afterwards.
Related ways to share
- To show one document to someone without publishing its whole model, create a secret link from the document’s Share dialog — see Sharing and publishing. A secret link uses the same page layout, and the same rule: links to documents in unpublished models stay hidden.
- To let people send you documents, turn on a public form — also in Sharing and publishing.
- To build a website with nested pages and text around your records, use Sites, which can embed a live list of documents from published models.