Creating public links #

The public link creation dialogue enables you to share a project or parts of it to your customers, without giving them access to your files. You can choose which scans, sections or layout of the current project you want to share. Furthermore, you can give the public link an expiration date and protect it with a password.

Best practices #

You can have multiple public links per project, since you might want to share different parts with different customers. In this case, you should give your links different names to be able to track them properly.

You should protect each of your public links with a password for additional security, in case unwanted people get access to it by accident.

You should also give each of your public links an expiration date depending on how long you want your customers to be able to see the project.

Disabling scans, sections and layouts #

The first dialogue when creating a new public link will give you the option to blacklist scans. By default, all of them are enabled. You can disable or enable single scans by clicking on the yellow checkmark or the red cross next to it. You can also disable and enable entire clusters the same way. Disabled scans will not be displayed in the Viewer.

Adding a description, password and expiration date #

The next dialogue lets you select a description, password and expiration date.

The description is only for visual purposes. A unique one might be useful if you plan to share different parts of the project with different clients and thus have multiple public links per project.

If you choose to use a password, it needs to be secure. The exact security level it has to conform to depends on your NextClouds settings.

An expiration date can be chosen to disable a link's functionality after a certain amount of time. It is usually a good idea to use this option, so links won't stay active forever in case you forget about them.

Options after creating the link #

After you have created a public link, you will see it in the Sharing Info screen of your project.

Copy Link will copy the public link to your clipboard. You can now paste it to anyone you wish to share this link with.

Edit will open the editing menu. Currently, only description, password and expiration date can be changed.

Unshare will delete the public link and unshare all dependencies. It will not work anymore afterwards.