Pages allow you to give users access to view, edit and submit certain data without granting those users access to your entire application. Regular users can build pages from within Dabble DB and then publish them, either for the general public, or for specific Dabble DB users. Pages can contain views of data and/or forms for submitting/editing data.

To edit Pages you have created, or to create a new page with a form, go to the Sharing menu from within an application, and click Pages. From the Pages manager, you can view, edit and delete existing pages as well as create new pages.

Use the Sharing menu to access Pages

Pages are built from your existing database. Before you can create a page, you must create the structure of your database by creating one or more categories.

You can create a new Page quickly from a view by clicking the Share button (below the view name) and then selecting New page.

To create a Page from the Pages manager, use the right-hand menu to select a category in your application. Then click Build page.

There are four tabs to control the content and behaviour of your Page while editing it:

• Edit View
• Edit Form
• Customization
• Preview and Access Control

(You can specify the title of your page on any of these tabs.)

You can decide who can access each page on the Preview and Access Control tab. To invite a user to a specific page, the simplest method is to simply email them the URL of the page once you’ve given them access.

Alternatively, if a pages-only user goes to the main database URL (e.g. yourcompany.dabbledb.com), they will be asked to login and the system will then take them to the first page alphabetically that they are able to access.

Finally, when you send an invitation to a new user, the email will contain a link to the first page alphabetically that they are able to access.