Published Lists

Published Lists let you share a curated, read-only view of your items with people outside your organization, such as clients, contractors, advisors, or open-source contributors. Anyone you give the link to can open the list in their browser and browse the items, with no DevStride account or login required.

A Published List is built on top of DevStride's saved views. It is simply a saved view whose visibility is set to Visible outside the organization. Once published, DevStride generates a public web link that you can share with anyone.

Common use cases

• Share a list of active support issues with a client.
• Publish a prioritized public backlog for open-source contributors or advisors.
• Provide external project collaborators with an up-to-date view of deliverables.

Before you start

Publishing a list is an Items module feature, and the option to publish is available to organization Admins:

• The Publish button appears only in the Manage Items module. Other modules, such as Boards, the Map, the Roadmap, My Work, and Analytics, offer a Views button for saving internal views, but not a Publish button.
• The visibility selector, including the Visible outside the organization option, is shown only to organization Admins. If you are not an Admin, you will not see the visibility options, and your saved views are created as personal views.
• You must apply at least one customization, such as a filter, column change, or sort, before you can save a view. Until the current view differs from the base view, the save control stays disabled with the tooltip "Apply filter(s) to save this view."

Publish a list

1. Open the Items module from the sidebar to open Manage Items.
2. Use the filter and control bar to shape the list you want to share, for example by applying a filter, adjusting which columns are shown, or changing the sort. At least one customization is required so that the view has unsaved changes.
3. Click the Publish button (globe icon) in the control bar.
4. In the Save view dialog, enter a Name for the list and an optional Description to give viewers context. The name becomes the title of the public page.
5. Under Visibility, choose Visible outside the organization.
6. Click Save view.

When you save an external view, DevStride automatically copies the public link to your clipboard and opens it in a new browser tab, so you can preview exactly what your viewers will see.

Share and manage published lists

Your existing published lists are listed in the Publish dialog. Click the Publish button (globe icon) in the Items control bar to open it.

In that dialog, each published list has its own row with the following controls:

• A copy-link icon (tooltip "Copy link"). Click it to copy the public URL to your clipboard. You will see a "Link copied to clipboard" confirmation.
• Edit (pencil) and delete (x) icons, shown to users who are allowed to change the view.

Clicking a published list's row also copies its public link and opens the list in a new tab.

Share the copied link with clients, collaborators, or external contributors. They can open it directly in a browser without signing in.

The public viewing experience

When someone opens a published list link, they see a standalone page that includes:

• A header branded with your organization's logo and name.
• The view's name as the page title. (If a list has no name, it falls back to "Shared View.")
• A search box to search items by title or description.
• A table of items that loads more rows as the viewer scrolls.

The columns shown on the public page mirror the column configuration you saved with the view. Internal-only control columns, such as the row-selection checkbox, are not shown. If a view has no specific column configuration, a default set of columns is used.

Viewers can click an item in the first column, or press Enter on it, to open a read-only detail view of that item. Nothing on the public page is editable.

Related

• Filtering the Items list
• Creating Items