TL;DR - I’m looking for a way to allow potentially LOTS of users view and use the same functions / buttons of my Coda doc to extract / view different data simultaneously and would appreciate some general guidance on how that might be done. Background: I have created a Coda which handles the stock …

Hi @nathan_burley , Are the final users only viewing the underlying data or they can also add their own data? This is the major discriminant for the scalability. If you publish in play mode, you should be able to get it done. As @Ed_Liveikis also pointed out, what would be the magnitude order o…

Hi Nathan, Have you tried it at scale and found certain things to be slow? What specifically do you think the bottleneck is? Maybe the problem is that the buttons they are pressing are changing the doc for other users? One trick for this is to have hidden tables that store the “state” of the doc f…

Here is a video made by @Paul_Danyliuk illustrating the technique: [image] [Video] User-specific filters (each person tweaks controls independently) Tips and Hacks Yet another question that has been asked and answered so many times: How do I let multiple people use the do…

Hi @Ed_Liveikis first - thanks for the reply! I haven’t tried it yet as the current way I create the timeline visual requires data to be copied into timeline table. So, timeline display changes depending on the table contents and that depends on the user request. All users see the same timeline …

Hey @Federico_Stefanato . Yeh, sadly they’re effectively editing the data as they’re editing the table which displays the timeline. Lots for now much be half a dozen users at once but I really want a solution which could be made public via the web as a service. I have no idea how many requests that …

[image] nathan_burley: Yeh, sadly they’re effectively editing the data as they’re editing the table which displays the timeline. Just a note that the user controls solution (from the Video), involves users editing data, but that data is configured per-user, so it’s ok. I suspect this might be…

Thanks @Ed_Liveikis quick look seems like it would work and I can imagine how to integrate that approach already with one sticking point - this seems to require Coda knowing who the user is. Do users have to create a login to see / use the Coda? Does it work for a Coda which is just embedded on a si…

So, actually I started by just letting a few people try it once it was published in play mode and seeing if, when they pressed the import button, the timeline visual changed on my end but it does not. So, I think this is a workable solution! Thanks both @Federico_Stefanato and @Ed_Liveikis for the …

:+1: Just a note on the new users thing - I suppose you would need to add a Button that the user should press to setup their page. The button would add the current user to the control table (with default control values) if the user isn’t already in the table. Clunky, but not sure of another way to…

[image] Ed_Liveikis: I suppose you would need to add a Button that the user should press to setup their page. The button would add the current user to the control table (with default control values) if the user isn’t already in the table. FYI the tutorial on how to do that is the first half o…

Handling lots of users

Ed_Liveikis March 19, 2021, 4:03pm 3

Here is a video made by @Paul_Danyliuk illustrating the technique:

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Handling lots of users

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