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# Shared links
A URL that shows someone your site with your edits on it: who may open it, what it shows, how long it lives, and what a viewer sees.

A shared link shows someone your site **with your edits on it**, no account, no extension, no tag of their own. They open a URL, the page comes up already changed, and they can walk the site as if the design were live. It is the first step of working together in Pixy: you design, they look, before anything is built. With **Live** on, the link is a room as well, and you present in it: see [Live](https://pixydesignapp.com/docs/live).

## Making a link

Press the **share** button in the Pixy menu. One card, top to bottom:

- **Live**: **Any time**, the link is a preview until you enter it from the workspace, and a room from then, see [Live](https://pixydesignapp.com/docs/live). **Scheduled**, at a time with a length and a reminder, and the invitation carries a calendar entry. A scheduled Live is always the whole website.
- **Current page** or **Website**: a page link shows edits on that page alone, a website link shows the site's edits wherever the visitor goes. Hidden while the Live is scheduled.
- **Access**: type an address and press Enter or a comma, and it becomes a chip. Every address on the link gets it by mail. **Anyone with the link** means exactly that: whoever holds the URL opens it, and a URL pasted into mail or chat can end up in search results. **Invitees only** keeps it to the addresses on the card, each signs in to Pixy with that address, no password, a code by email, and an address new to Pixy is offered sign-up on the way in. A manager of the project can also give an invited address a role on the project from its chip. **Resend invitations** sends the mail again to every address on a made link.
- **Versions**: **Current version**, or **More…** to pick several, with **Select all**. With several, the visitor gets a switcher in the bottom-right corner. A project with only Main has the choice grayed out, not hidden.
- **Expires in**: 30 minutes to a day at a press, or **Custom** with a number and a unit, two hours by default. The moment it stops working is written under the choice. A scheduled Live has its own moment, the link works until half an hour after the Live ends.

**Share** makes the link and copies it. From then on the button reads **Copy**, and a change on the card, an address added, a version ticked, a longer span, turns it into **Save**: nothing leaves the card until you press it, since a save can mail people, and closing the card with unsaved changes asks first. Picking a span again restarts the link's clock from now, any other change leaves its expiry where it stands.

**All shared links** lists the project's running links, a row each with its terms and how many are on it right now. **Edit** loads it into the card, **Copy** copies it, **Delete** ends it at once for everyone holding it, asked first, and every row carries **Enter** and **Leave**.

## Opening one

The visitor's page loads under a plain sheet, white or black, whichever their system asks for, with Pixy's mark turning in the middle. Behind it the site loads, the edits arrive and the page rebuilds itself. The sheet lifts only when the version is fully on the page, so nobody sees the site jump from before to after. From there it is the site: links work, forms work, nothing of the editor is on screen. Navigation inside the site keeps the preview on for that tab.

With several versions on offer, the current version's name stands bottom right, where the Pixy menu would on your own page, and the list opens above it. Picking one reads the page again under the sheet, at that version, and the tab remembers it.

An expired or deleted link says so on the sheet, with **Continue to the site** as it is. An invitation-only link asks the visitor to sign in, a small Pixy window, the code by email, and then opens. A page that cannot reach Pixy says so rather than holding the visitor, and opens the moment it does.

## What a viewer can and cannot do

Look. A shared link binds read-only on the server: it can fetch the shared version's records and the images they name, and nothing else. It cannot open design mode, cannot save, cannot make links of its own, and cannot see versions the link does not offer. It only opens on the site it was made on, carried onto another domain, the id is refused.

## Managing links from your account

The project page in [your account](https://pixydesignapp.com/docs/projects) has a **Shared links** block: every running link, where it opens, what it shows, who may look, when it dies. Edit unfolds the terms, Copy copies the URL, Delete ends it. Removing a project ends its links with it, and regenerating the project's key revokes every invited viewer's grant.