Once you have uploaded your document to our Drawboard cloud storage, you can now start your collaboration with your peers, colleagues, friends, family, anyone in the world. You can do live markups that syncs across multiple users in an instant. Start sharing now!

3 ways you can share your document

You can share your document via the Preview Pane and Canvas.

Preview Pane

The Preview Pane which is located on the right side of the dashboard will only appear after you have clicked a document from the document list in the dashboard.

Steps:

1. Navigate to the dashboard
2. Click on a cloud document
3. Navigate to the preview pane
4. Click the Share button
5. This will open the Share Modal.

Canvas

You will find a button on the tabs bar (next to your profile) called Upload/share button. If you clicked on it, you will be able to find the share file button.

Steps:

1. Open a cloud document
2. Navigate to the tab bar in the top right corner
3. Click the share button
4. This will open the share modal

Sharing Modal

Once you have launched the sharing modal, you will be able to choose 2 different ways on how you want to share your documents:

via Email

This will send an email with a link to the document. This link can only be accessed by the person who owns the email address it was sent to, and only if they sign up for a Drawboard account.

Steps:

1. The share modal will appear in the middle of the screen
2. In the email box enter the email address you would like to share the document with
3. Press enter. This will confirm the email address
4. In the dropdown select the link permissions: Reader or Collaborator. Find out more here.
5. Press Send invite

via Share link

This is a generated link that can be copied and pasted anywhere. Anyone with the link can access that document.

Steps:

1. The share modal will appear in the middle of the screen
2. At the bottom of the screen there will be a dropdown
3. Click the dropdown to change the link permissions: Reader or Collaborator. Find out more here.
4. Click copy link
5. You can now share that link via email, instant messenger or even text message