Public sharing

Publish a Doska board to a read-only link anyone can open, with no account.

A board can be published to a link that anyone can open. It is read-only, needs no account, and stores nothing in the visitor's browser.

Publish one

Open Share in the board menu and press Create link. Only the board's owner sees that button. Copy the link and share it.

Pressing publish again while a board is published returns the same link, so pressing it twice doesn't break a link you already sent.

What a visitor sees

The board as it stands: its columns in order, the cards in them, card bodies, attachments and inline images, deadlines and task counts. References between cards resolve inside the board.

Nothing is editable, there is no session, and no local database is created.

Turn it back off

Share again, then Turn off. Every link handed out so far stops working on its next load. Publishing again generates a different token, so the old link stays dead.

A board also stops being readable if you delete it, or if the server's admin deactivates the account that owns it.

Freshness

The server keeps a published board's snapshot for about ten seconds, so an edit you make shows up on the public link a few seconds later rather than instantly.

Sharing with people who have accounts

Publishing is for people outside your server. To give someone edit access, they need an account on it and a place on the board's roster. See Accounts.