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title: "How to make data public ?"
url: "https://openforis.support/questions/825/how-to-make-data-public"
tags: ["collect"]
status: "accepted"
score: 0
answer_count: 4
asked: "2016-10-26T07:19:55"
last_activity: "2016-10-28T20:40:46"
source: "Open Foris Support - Q&A Forum"
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# How to make data public ?

Asked by Rajkumar on 2016-10-26

Hello,
I want to make data publicly visible after entering through data management. public can see the data but can not edit it. How can I do this ?


## Accepted answer (score 1, by Stefano (OF) on 2016-10-27)

Link: https://openforis.support/questions/825/how-to-make-data-public/829

Hi Rajkumar,  
The **view** user role has been introduced in the latest version of Collect, 3.11.5.  
Thanks,  
Open Foris Team


## Answer (score 1, by Stefano (OF) on 2016-10-26)

Link: https://openforis.support/questions/825/how-to-make-data-public/826

Hi Rajkumar,  
From version 3.12 of Collect there will be a "view" user role that can be used for this purpose.  
Be patient please, many thanks,  
Open Foris Team


## Answer (score 1, by joseph on 2016-10-28)

Link: https://openforis.support/questions/825/how-to-make-data-public/840

Hi Rajkumar, see also question "user account option "guest" or "view" for data viewing (sharing) only!". This is now done through user- role "View" restricting to see only "Data management" for data viewing and "Saiku (Beta) for data analysis (locking the original data aginst editing). Maybe you have further suggestions? J.


## Answer (score 0, by Rajkumar on 2016-10-28)

Link: https://openforis.support/questions/825/how-to-make-data-public/841

Thank you very Much OF team. I got "view" role in Version 3.11.5. It is very useful for me and others too. As I understand, we should define view role  for specified user or open username and open password available publicly. But it would be handy when Public view the data without entering user name and password. Any way, This is the great development. Thanks for the great solution.