Sending a message to the owner

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• NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,689

  February 2020 Answer ✓

  Unfortunately, there is no way to do that - it would definitely be useful for collaboration. Content in Public documents is public domain so you don't need the owner's permission to use it. However, we have no control over what content is being uploaded and whether it is infringing somebody else's copyright.

  Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI

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• rune_thorsen229 Member Posts: 182 EDU

  February 2020

  Thanks for your quick reply. Then if I want to give people an opportunity to codesign on opensource projects, where would you suggest to put my contact information?

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• owen_sparks Member, Developers Posts: 2,660 PRO

  February 2020

  It's a bodge but you can use "FeatureStudios" to store plain text.

  If you use the comment tags /* and */ at the start and end of the text then OS won't try and covert it into featurescript. 
  

  Alternatively use a link tab to an external document that holds this info, or a PDF tab internally.
  

  The harder part is making it obvious to the user that this information exists.  Some sort of "landing page" or "splash screen" would help here.

  Cheers,

  Owen S.
  

  Business Systems and Configuration Controller
  HWM-Water Ltd
  

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• NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,689

  February 2020 Answer ✓

  ^ what Owen said. By default, the first tab is the one that is displayed when first opened, so if you put a PDF there, everyone will see it (Feature Studios do not display on mobile). You can also add information to the Document properties (in hamburger menu top left) that will display in the Document info panel on the Documents page, but that is not as obvious,

  Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI

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• rune_thorsen229 Member Posts: 182 EDU

  February 2020 edited February 2020

  Hi Neil, negative. I just opened a random doc of the shared. It was NOT the first tab that was displayed but the 3'rd. (https://cad.onshape.com/documents/58235f06ec5f9e10edc676dc/w/282a1c673de4934bb346bbee/e/6490594eb6b6aaac5649f4bd)

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• owen_sparks Member, Developers Posts: 2,660 PRO

  February 2020

  Indeed.  I thought it was the "last used" tab that the document opened at?

  Owen S.
  

  Business Systems and Configuration Controller
  HWM-Water Ltd
  

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• rune_thorsen229 Member Posts: 182 EDU

  February 2020

  However the idea of a PDF is not bad, is it the only format possible?. 

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• john_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 3,936 PRO

  February 2020

  By default if you open tte document from the Onshape document browser.  A link will take you directly to the tab it was created from.

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• rune_thorsen229 Member Posts: 182 EDU

  February 2020 edited February 2020

  john_mcclary 
  Negative, the tab it was created from doen't seem to matter as this was created firs with a Sketch then the PDF was added: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/0a30ad4b2556d4120059fb8f/w/be7effe649adf04ef4cbb4f5/e/a0bfa12ea865a6eba3c59978
  
  

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• rune_thorsen229 Member Posts: 182 EDU

  February 2020 edited February 2020

  NeilCooke, may I ask you if it is possible to view the public onshape documents without signing in. For example I referenced a drawing (https://goo.gl/hD9NTT) in our publication https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KZSRCKIETT2HABTI9DSF/full?target=10.1080/10400435.2019.1634660
  But I realized that you don't give view access to public documents. If thats the case, it is A GREAT PITY (I guess google documents beat you on that ;-) 

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• owen_sparks Member, Developers Posts: 2,660 PRO

  February 2020

  rune_thorsen229 said:

  Negative also on that: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/0a30ad4b2556d4120059fb8f/w/be7effe649adf04ef4cbb4f5/e/a0bfa12ea865a6eba3c59978
  
  

  
  Your link took me to the pdf page sucessfully.  If you're seeing different it's possibly because you're the owner.  What happens if you open in in incognito mode?
  

  Business Systems and Configuration Controller
  HWM-Water Ltd
  

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• rune_thorsen229 Member Posts: 182 EDU

  February 2020

  owen_sparks said:

  Your link took me to the pdf page sucessfully.  If you're seeing different it's possibly because you're the owner.  What happens if you open in in incognito mode?
  

  Thanks. I suddenly remembered that one has to take the link from the "link sharing tab" for this to work. 

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• NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,689

  February 2020

  I'm pretty sure this is how it should work: if you've never opened a doc before, it will open at the first tab. If you have, it will open the last tab you had open. If you click a link it will go to the specific tab.

  Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI

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• NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,689

  February 2020

  rune_thorsen229 said:

  NeilCooke, may I ask you if it is possible to view the public onshape documents without signing in. For example I referenced a drawing (https://goo.gl/hD9NTT) in our publication https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KZSRCKIETT2HABTI9DSF/full?target=10.1080/10400435.2019.1634660
  But I realized that you don't give view access to public documents. If thats the case, it is A GREAT PITY (I guess google documents beat you on that ;-) 

  If you own the doc then you can link share with non-Onshape users, but you can't send the link to somebody else's public doc.

  Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI

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• rune_thorsen229 Member Posts: 182 EDU

  February 2020

  NeilCooke said:

  I'm pretty sure this is how it should work: if you've never opened a doc before, it will open at the first tab. If you have, it will open the last tab you had open. If you click a link it will go to the specific tab.

  If I go incognito mode and open https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ea73831031c68a9ca068365e/w/1a01534a1adf03ae8d93868b/e/33a7d433c37c6c7fe2d4570d
  It opens the tab: Stick_2.0
  If I search FeatureScripBelt and open it, it opens first tab
  https://cad.onshape.com/documents/57886eace4b0e425c1ef548a/w/54f180f432defb41a8fddb17/e/c65e445e89ee373617edc394
  Opening tab belt.svg and closing.
  Searching again it goes directly to belt.svg 
  Conclusion: you may be right. 
  
  By the way an exellent example of how to go around my initial question. Thank you so much everyone.
  Rune
  
  

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• Jake_Rosenfeld Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 1,646

  February 2020 Answer ✓

  FYI for everyone posting links in this thread, the `/e/aa112233bb4455` portion identifies the tab, so once you copy and paste that, everone who clicks it is always going to go to the tab you were currently on when you copied the URL.  If you just go to say:
  https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ea73831031c68a9ca068365e
  The system will have to infer a tab for you.
  
  So if you ever click a link with /e/ in it, the tab has already been chosen for you.

  Jake Rosenfeld - Modeling Team

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• rune_thorsen229 Member Posts: 182 EDU

  February 2020

  Thanks Jake. Precious knowledge that you share. 
  
  

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