Share a Personal Book - Fluid Topics - 3.7

Fluid Topics User Guide

Category
Reference Guides
Audience
public
Version
3.7

Users with the Personal Book Share User Role can share Personal Books with other users.

The URL generated after enabling the Share toggle for a Personal Book is accessible to administrators and visible in the Most Popular Documents tab of the Analytics page. To prevent a Personal Book from being accessible in this way, it is necessary to leave the Share toggle disabled.

To share a Personal Book from the Personal Book Reader interface, perform the following steps:

  1. Click the Share tab (FT ST icon).
  2. Click the Share toggle.

    Retrieve the URL of a personal book from the Tools tab

    The link of the Shared Personal Book is generated.

    Share a personal book using its URL from the Tools tab

  3. Copy the link of the Personal Book.
  4. Send the link to the user you want to share your Personal Book with.

When the book is shared, the information is displayed is displayed below its title.

A message shows that a personal book was shared with you

When the book is shared, the information is displayed in the form of a shared_tag tag in the Personal Books section of My Library.

Consulting a preview of the Shared Personal Book

Click Open in new window to have a preview of the Shared version of your Personal Book, and see what the users receiving the URL will see.

Modifying a Shared Personal Book

It is still possible to modify the Shared Personal Book, but any modification appears in the shared version only if you click Publish Modifications in the Edit your personal book tab:

Publish any modifications done to a shared personal book to update the shared content

Restrictions

Users receiving the Shared Personal Book link might not be able to consult it for the following reasons:

  • They may not have the proper rights and permissions to consult some topics.
  • They may not have a Fluid Topics account. In that case, they should be invited to create a Fluid Topics account.
  • They may have a Fluid Topics account, but maybe they are not signed in when consulting the Shared Personal Book. In that case, they should be invited to sign in.