Feedback on Invite to edit Feature (in Beta now)
In our next feature update as part of cloud documents in Illustrator, we bring to you the “Invite to Edit” feature that is intended to help you share and collaborate with others.
What is it?
Collaborate with others with the Invite to Edit feature. Share your cloud document with other collaborators so that they can also edit your document. Find documents that others have shared with you in a new section called “Shared with you” which you can find on the Home Screen. You can also easily take a non-cloud document and convert it into a cloud document in order to take advantage of this collaboration feature.
Feature details:
1. To invite another user(s):
Create or open a cloud document
Click on the Invite to Edit icon in the app header.
Type in the email address of the person you want to invite to edit your document. To test this out, please only invite others that currently in the prerelease program; otherwise, they will be unable to access this prerelease experience.
Optionally, you can also add a message
Send — an email will now be sent to the recipient(s).
To access documents that are shared with you, go to the ‘Shared with you’ tab from the Illustrator homescreen where you can find all documents that have already been shared with you.
Collaborators cannot edit the document at the same time. Only one user may edit the document at a time or a conflict may occur. If a conflict occurs, a copy of the Cloud document will be generated.
Please give us your feedback on this feature.
Shivendra Agarwal
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Diam
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This would be a highly effective feature if it was tweaked a bit.
The collaborators should be able to edit the shared cloud document in real-time, enabling them to also edit the same document simultaneously. And there should be something to indicate when another collaborator is live, and follow along with what they are doing.
Currently, I am I noticing that the shared cloud document doesn't show up in the "Shared with you" right away for those who were invited. Instead, collaborators would have to open the document from their notifications.
Additionally, the shared cloud documents did not update immediately for the collaborators.
These changes would facilitate collaborative teamwork, more effectively and efficiently!
Please refer to the tech that Miro Board uses! They do those first couple features really well!Thanks!
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Do you plan to turn in into realtime collaborative editing feature? Then (and only then, I believe for now) this might really worth trying it.
You see, I don’t trust your Cloud, I don’t want to keep my data within in, ripping it off my stable file structure I use for years. My colleagues and I share a local network, and I rarely have projects in Illustrator I need to collaborate on with somebody far away. I will share it other ways if needed. While there is no support for linked files, I even don’t have anything or anybody to test if...
Meanwhile, we use Google Slides and Docs and Sheets all the time. No problems with trust (sort of), storing, inviting, saving, versioning... We all should wonder why (because of realtime) -
Simon Bowland
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Feedback: I have absolutely no use for this feature as I cannot, and will not, use Cloud Docs.
Meanwhile, Cloud Docs continue to have no background save, no support for linked images, and faulty incremental save. Please fix existing functionality before adding new functionality.
