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Sharing a project with teammates

Work on the same jobs with colleagues or other companies.

Sharing options allowing collaboration across account users and to users from other active Groundplan organisations.

⚠️Warning: Sharing gives full editing rights

Please consider that user/s with access are able to edit (including pricing), delete measurements, stages, and plans.

These are all permanent actions.

Share individual projects

By default, the only person able to view a project is the person that creates it or the project owner. To give project visibility to others in your account, manually share them into the project.

  1. From the project tab, click manage sharing & access

  2. Click the user/s name to share the project with

  3. (Optional) click invite your teammates to add additional users to the account

Bulk share existing projects to new and/or existing users

Bulk sharing can be actioned by all users of the account. To share multiple or all projects in the account, we recommend selecting table view to complete these steps.

  1. From the home page, click view options and select table view

  2. Click the check box for projects needing to be shared or click select all if required

  3. Click +share

  4. Select the user

  5. Click share projects

  6. Click close and repeat all steps if required

  7. Click cancel, if using select all - click more projects and complete the steps again for each page of projects

    Bulk Sharing V3

Automatically share all new projects

If you regularly need to share projects with other users in the account, set up automatic project sharing. Select the particular project template when creating projects.

This applies to all future projects from the point at which sharing was enabled.

  1. From the homepage, click project templates

  2. Click an existing template name or click +project template to create a new template

  3. Click sharing

  4. Click user's name/s requiring access

  5. Click back to the templates list and repeat for each template required

  6. Select the correct template when creating new projects

Automatically Share all new Projects

Owner role holders can view all projects in the account

All projects can be viewed by users holding the owner role of the account. This is also located within archived and trashed project folders.

  1. From the projects page, click showing my projects

  2. Click all projects

Keep sharing options when duplicating a project

  1. From the homepage, click project actions

  2. Click duplicate and enter new project name if required

  3. Click the checkbox next to copy sharing settings

    Leaving unchecked lets only the user duplicating the project have visibility

  4. Click duplicate

Remove a user's access to a project

  1. From the project tab, click manage sharing & access

  2. Click the trash bin next to the user's name to remove visibility of the project

View all external users with access to Groundplan Projects

Groundplan allows some users access to see who has access to projects from external Groundplan Accounts.

Click here to find out more.


Frequently asked questions

I have added a new user, why are they unable to see any projects?

By default, the only person able to view a project is the person who creates it.

To share all existing projects with the new user use the bulk sharing option.

  1. From the home page, click view options and select table view

  2. Click the check box for projects needing to be shared or click select all if required

  3. Click +share

  4. Select the user

  5. Click share projects

  6. Click close and repeat all steps if required

  7. Click cancel, if using select all - click more projects and complete the steps again for each page of projects

    Bulk Sharing V3

Consider setting up automatic sharing to have all new projects shared to the new user.

Is there a way to share new users into all projects at once, rather than one by one?

Yes.

Use the Bulk Share function.

  1. From the home page, click view options and select table view

  2. Click the check box for projects needing to be shared or click select all if required

  3. Click +share

  4. Select the user

  5. Click share projects

  6. Click close and repeat all steps if required

  7. Click cancel, if using select all - click more projects and complete the steps again for each page of projects

    Bulk Sharing V3

When sharing, can I give someone “view only” access to the project?

No, unfortunately not.

With sharing rights comes the ability to edit as well.

You are however, able to share a public link to plans. This link is for the plans / legend only. It does not include access to Groundplan or any access to stages or pricing.

I am the owner of the business. Can I automatically see all projects created?

Yes, if you hold the owner role for the account.

  1. Click Showing: My Projects

  2. Click All Projects


For further assistance with sharing, please contact the Support team at Help > Send us a Message.

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