I have a work around where I create a template, but it doesn’t keep relationships. I need to be able to duplicate spaces where it also duplicates relationships.
Use case:
I needed a master view of all projects, and I am funneling all the various project databases into it. Reason:
I needed access control and I only found space level access. In order to have the executives able to see projects, but non executives to not see their projects, I had to create a template database and then duplicate it over and over, then have them feed all to one view.
I could swear when I first duplicated the databases via this template method that it did copy relationships, but now I am not sure. It won’t do it now (if it did before). For scalability, I just want to have the same baseline template for projects. But Now i’m having to manually add each relationship back in.
I don’t mean to be unhelpful, but you really don’t need to be able to duplicate space. Fibery isn’t meant to be used like this and doing so will result in an inefficient workspace.
Outside of space access, there’s database access and entity level access.
I’m sure that with a mix of these, as well as Automatic Sharing, you can make something to satisfy your needs.
Play around with these access methods a bit, and they will slowly make sense.
One examole, if you want people see all the views in a space, but not all the data, you need to create two spaces, one for views and one for data. Then give View access to the one with the views, and entity level access based on a field on a field, maybe related to the user group “Executive / Not Executive”. Then an automation that runs when someone creates (share with right group), and Automatic access that shares with the assigned user group.
Indeed this is a bit complex, but once you build it right, you won’t need to be managing the system at all, just working in it.
If you can’t figure it out (don’t worry it’s not you, it’s indeed pretty complex), you can share your setup and your needs in more details, and I’d be happy to make a video tutorial showing how to set it up properly. (I need content for YouTube haha)
That was very helpful. I also have figured out how to set up the access controls (which was the reason I was doing it that way in the first place) to get the access I wanted but all in one database.