Share a folder or catalog on your computer

Using the LotJitsu app? See Share a folder or catalog on your phone.

Invite someone by email to work with you on a whole folder or on a single catalog. They join as a Collaborator once they accept.

Before you start

• You must be an Owner of the folder (or, for a catalog that is not in a folder, own the catalog). Anyone else can see who has access but cannot invite.
• Your plan sets how many collaborators you can have.

Folder or catalog?

• Share a folder to give access to every catalog in it, now and later.
• Share a catalog to give access to that one catalog only. The person can work on its lots but cannot export, delete or share it. See Owners and collaborators: who can do what.

Steps

1. Find the people icon:
   • on a folder's row (Manage collaborators when you point at it) or a catalog's row on the Catalogs page, or
   • at the right of the name at the top of a catalog's page (Share this catalog with collaborators).
2. Click it. The Collaborators window opens, with Folder: or Catalog: and the name under the title.
3. Under Invite by email, type the person's email address.
4. Click Send, or press Enter.

Invitation sent to the address appears, and the address joins the list with a Pending label and the dates it was sent and expires. The person gets an email, and if they already have a LotJitsu account, an alert as well.

Withdraw an invitation or remove someone

• Withdraw: click the X (Withdraw invitation) on a Pending row. There is no confirmation.
• Remove: click the X (Remove collaborator) on a person's row. Their access ends straight away and they are not told. There is no confirmation.

To make someone an Owner of a folder, or back to Collaborator, click the role label on their row (Owner or Collaborator). There is no menu; hovering over the label shows a tooltip, Promote to Owner or Demote to Collaborator, and clicking it changes the role straight away. See Owners and collaborators: who can do what.

Good to know

• The person must accept with the same email address you invited.
• An invitation lasts 14 days. An expired one shows Expired instead of Pending. To resend, withdraw it and invite the address again.
• If your plan has a collaborator limit, the title shows it, for example Collaborators (2/3 used). At the limit you see Your plan allows N collaborators. Remove a collaborator, or manage your account at lotjitsu.com. One person counts once however many things you share with them, and you never count.
• An invitation has already been sent to this email means a live invitation is already pending.
• Sharing a catalog with someone who already has it shows a message that they already have access.
• On a catalog inside a folder, the folder's members are listed too. Remove them from the folder's list, not the catalog's.
• The people icon gains a small share mark once others have access.