@khalidhuseynov may be we should consider enabling show/hide editor and output buttons

I'm not sure what the usage of this feature as if would be.
#389 was aiming at having a view only experience at a time when auth was not implemented.
In our case it would make more sense to link this feature to the notebook user access settings, especially since only changing the url would still allow to access it in edit mode

@khalidhuseynov one thing: as soon as this changes the URL - you might want to double-check and make sure that URLs to each separate paragraph (+IFrame ones) and a Search work with new URL.

@r-kamath that's good point, but that differs according to use cases (also as a workaround, possible to set those before switching to offline link). from point of view having offline view, no changes on notebook should be displayed and basically any paragraph updates are blocked to render in here, which includes updates from show/hide editor and output forms. However it can be reconsidered depending on more feedback on use cases.

@corneadoug it makes some sense, however view only isn't the only feature. i updated the description with second screenshot on offline view. anyways, I'll look more into how it goes along with the authentication and get back here.

@bzz thanks for feedback, i'll look into that.

Copying from Zeppelin Dev List:

It's not clear to me if offline mode would allow changing input controls (dropdowns/input box etc) and view the new result. Our requirement is for a dashboard mode, where multiple users can play with the data using the input controls but don't interfere with each other's work. This is a very basic requirement for making Dashboards using Zeppelin.

I think isolating a notebook copy in a web socket/user session (in Dashboard mode), can achieve the desired results.

@khalidhuseynov do you think we can close this one now, until you look into it more again? Or is it WIP?

@khalidhuseynov 1 week ping

@bzz thanks for ping, i'm closing it for now