Publishing
Publish a dashboard, report or app to a stable URL on view.flitch.io, as public, team-only or email-restricted. Reversible, and viewers can enter data.
Publishing makes a dashboard, app or report live at a stable URL on view.flitch.io. Reversible. All three publish the same way.
Publish
Open the dashboard, report or app
From the Library. Anyone who can build in the space sees drafts there beside published work. A viewer sees only what has been published.
Open the publish dropdown
Click Publish in the editor's top bar, or open Settings → Publishing.
Pick visibility
- Public: anyone with the link can view.
- Team Only: all team members can view (requires sign in). Team workspaces only.
- Email Restricted: only the email addresses you specify can access.
If any dataset behind it has a row security rule, Public and password protection are refused: neither carries a person to filter for. The other options all do.
Confirm
URL generated and copied to your clipboard. Test in a private window.
Entering data once published
If a dashboard or app has an input table, viewers can add and edit entries on the published version, not only read it. They must be signed in, so a public link is readable by anyone and writable by no one. Every entry records who made it.
Publishing does not change this for you: it stays editable in Flitch, and both surfaces read and write the same rows.
Republish
Edits are draft until you republish. Open the publish dropdown again. The same URL keeps working. Entries people have made are not draft: they are live as soon as they are added.
Unpublish
Publish → Unpublish. The link returns 404 immediately. Republishing later restores access at the same URL.
Export
Once published, download the published version as PDF, PNG, or PowerPoint. From Settings → Publishing.
Options:
- Orientation: landscape or portrait.
- Nav: include or hide the navigation.
- Badge: include or hide the "Built with Flitch" pill.
Click any chart or table on the published page to export it on its own. Republish after editing so changes appear in exports.
Ask AI for viewers
Turn on Ask AI in the access settings and viewers get a chat launcher on the published page. They can ask questions about what they are looking at and about the data behind it, read only.
Two conditions:
- Viewers must sign in, so the visibility has to be Team Only or Email Restricted. It is not offered on public pages.
- The cost comes from the team that published it, not the viewer. The toggle is disabled, and the launcher hidden, when that team's balance is empty. See Billing & Usage.
Scheduled reports
Send the export on a schedule instead of downloading it. From the Export card, open Scheduled report, add recipients, and pick Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly, a start time, and a timezone. Orientation, nav, and badge follow the same options as a manual export.
Each run captures the published version, so edits you haven't republished won't appear in the email. Paid plans only.
Embed
From the Export card, open Embed to copy an iframe snippet for another site. The snippet points at the published URL, or at your custom domain when one is active.
Free embeds carry the "Built with Flitch" badge. On paid plans, hide it under Branding and republish.
Custom domain
Serve a published dashboard, report or app from your own hostname, for example dashboards.yourcompany.com, instead of view.flitch.io.
Add the domain
In the publish popover, click Add custom domain and enter the hostname. Paid plans only.
Add the DNS records
Expand DNS records and add the CNAME and TXT records shown to your DNS provider.
Wait for verification
Verification and the TLS certificate complete on their own, usually in 5 to 30 minutes once the records are correct, occasionally up to an hour. The status reads Pending DNS until then, and needs no refreshing.
Home screen
Everything you publish installs on a phone as an app of its own, under its own name and icon, with no browser bar. There is no store listing and nothing to download, and viewers need no Flitch account beyond whatever its visibility already asks for.
- On Android, a bar at the top of the page offers Install when it is open in Chrome. Chrome's menu has the same option under Add to Home screen.
- On iPhone, open the page in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. A bar on the page spells out the steps, in Safari only.
A page on a custom domain installs the same way, under that domain. Choosing Not now keeps the bar away on that device. Installing Flitch itself is covered under Install the app.