creating and sharing product documentation in a tab

philippe_marin

Hi,
working on open source projects, I would like to create and share with partners a technical documentation. In order to ease access and modification, I would like to do it in a dedicated "tab" in Onshape interface. 
Would it be possible or not?
I remember I saw some text documents with links in some Onshape exercises or tutorials, is it possible to do the same as a standard user?
Thanks...
Philippe

Jake_Rosenfeld

@philippe_marin

The tabs you saw were likely PDF files.  If you go into a document and Import a PDF (from the "+" in the bottom left corner), it will get it's own tab and be rendered in full quality.

Here is an example of a PDF in an Onshape document:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9a9b81d17d4b69e58ad9b0b0/v/c253688ad8add5efd222a709/e/3152191074466a8b45231663

Hope this helps!

Jake_Rosenfeld

@philippe_marin

The tabs you saw were likely PDF files.  If you go into a document and Import a PDF (from the "+" in the bottom left corner), it will get it's own tab and be rendered in full quality.

Here is an example of a PDF in an Onshape document:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9a9b81d17d4b69e58ad9b0b0/v/c253688ad8add5efd222a709/e/3152191074466a8b45231663

Hope this helps!

emagdalenaC2i

You can add the Link tab app from the App Store and share Google Docs files inside an Onshape tab
https://appstore.onshape.com/apps/Utilities/DFE73AMQ42NPMVAEQBQVP56QGLCWJ4ALJUBEBLA=/description

philippe_marin

Thanks @Jake_Rosenfeld a pdf file is definitely a way to integrate documentation about the project for people who will copy to reuse.

@emagdalenaC2C I already tried to use Link Tab, it looks a good way to build onshape embeded documents collaboratively. But after subscribing to Link Tab, when I select "Add Application / Link Tab" I just got a blank tab. No input field as expected to define a link :-( 

But now I just tried with Firefox instead of Chrome, --> I go a bit further, I can define the URL (I try a Google sheet for example). But I get a message "The following link was prevented from being displayed in this tab" and I need to open outside of Onshape... 
It seems to be not so simple (?)

Philippe

emagdalenaC2i

Link Tab works fine to me

There were this kind of issues some time ago, Maybe you just need to "reinstall" the app