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Sharing & Public Access

Three ways to give someone access to a resource: invite by email, share a link, or make it public.

The Share dialog

Click Share in the top-right of any document, table, or artifact. The dialog has three tabs:

  • People — manage individual access by email.

  • Link — create a shareable link with a chosen role.

  • Publish — turn the resource into a public web page (covered in the Publishing section).

Inviting individuals

In the People tab:

  1. Type an email address.

  2. Pick a document role (Owner, Editor, Commenter, Viewer).

  3. Click Invite.

If the person is already in your workspace, they get a notification. If not, they get an email with a sign-up link that auto-grants them access on join.

You can change or revoke a role at any time from the same tab.

Shareable links

In the Link tab:

  • Toggle Anyone with the link on.

  • Pick the access level: View, Comment, or Edit.

  • Copy the link.

Anyone who opens the link gets that level of access — no Dokki account required for View or Comment. Edit requires sign-in so changes are attributable.

Links can be revoked from the same dialog. The URL becomes invalid for everyone holding it.

Public access vs invited access

The two systems compose:

  • A resource can be publicly viewable AND have specific people invited as Editors. Anonymous visitors see read-only; invited people can edit.

  • A resource can be invite-only with no public access at all. Only listed people can open it.

  • A resource can be publicly editable but with one specific person restricted to View — the document role caps their permission.

This last one is unusual but useful: open collaboration on a public draft, except for one stakeholder you want to keep as read-only.

What sharing doesn't do

  • It doesn't change discoverability — sharing a doc with someone doesn't add it to their sidebar; they need the link or to find it through search.

  • It doesn't notify on every change — only on initial invite. Use comments and @-mentions for ongoing notifications.

  • It doesn't survive a delete — deleting the resource revokes everyone's access, including yours.

Audit

Settings → Members shows you who's in the workspace. Per-resource sharing is visible on each resource's Share dialog. There's no global "who has access to what" view yet — coming.