Saving, sharing and public designs

Share a design (sync) and stop sharing

Turning sharing on makes a design public on this site at once and keeps later edits uploaded; turning it off removes the public copy and keeps your design in this browser.

Who it is for

Customers and administrators with an account. Guests are asked to sign in first.

Before you start

  • An account created by the shop.
  • The design is open for editing in this tab and has at least one piece.

Turn sharing on

There is no review or separate publish step: shared means public. Anyone can open, copy and buy the pieces of a public design. Your account details are never shown on it.

  1. Open the design and its “Work” menu, then choose “Share”.
  2. If you are not signed in, you are taken to sign in; afterwards the design page continues sharing by itself. The design stays in this browser meanwhile.
  3. The status says the design becomes public once the site confirms it. After confirmation, “Copy link” and “View public page” work in the Work menu.

Later edits

Edits are kept in this browser at once. Changes of a shared design are uploaded together at the end of a 30-second window; “Sync now” sends them at once and appears while changes wait, while offline or after a failed upload. One upload per design runs at a time across tabs, each try gives up after 20 seconds, and failed tries are repeated later and when the connection returns.

The status shows, for example, “Waiting to upload”, “Uploading…”, “Shared · up to date” or “Offline · changes waiting”. Signing in with another account, or signing out, pauses uploads; the changes stay in this browser.

Changed on two devices

If the design was changed only on another device, the newer version is taken here automatically. If it was changed both here and elsewhere, both versions are kept and uploads pause: choose “Keep this browser’s version” or “Use the cloud version”. Nothing is merged.

Stop sharing

The old public address then says the author turned sharing off, permanently. Sharing again later gives the design a new public address. A shared design must stop sharing before it can be deleted.

  1. Open the “Work” menu and choose “Stop sharing”.
  2. The status shows “Turning sharing off…” until the site answers; only then is sharing off.
  3. The design stays in this browser, not shared.

Earlier private cloud designs

If your account saved designs when cloud designs were private, My designs lists them under “Earlier private cloud designs”: choose “Share it” or “Keep in this browser only” for each.

What you will see

  • “Shared · up to date” in the status after uploads.
  • The design listed among public designs, marked “Shared by a user”.
  • “Sharing of … is off” after stopping, with the design still in My designs.

Limits

  • At most 50 shared designs per account.
  • Only the author changes a shared design; others can copy it.
  • A browser that cannot coordinate tabs does not upload.
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