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Share an Entity

This how-to walks through publishing a workspace entity so someone without a Thrive account can view it read-only. The exact screen depends on the entity type, but the draft → active → copy link flow is the same.

For background, see Publish.

With The Web App

From an entity (habit, person, doc, etc.)

  1. Sign in and open the entity you want to share (for example a habit or person).
  2. Click the globe icon in the leaf panel toolbar.
  3. In the Publish section, click Publish. Thrive creates a draft publish record.
  4. Click Move to Active when you are ready for others to open the link.
  5. Copy the public URL and send it to whoever should view the entity.
  6. Optional: open View to check the public page in a new tab.

To stop sharing, open the publish section again and click Move to Draft. The link stops working immediately.

From a doc folder

  1. Open Docs and navigate to the folder you want to share.
  2. Use the Publish section at the top of the folder listing (not the globe on a single doc).
  3. Follow the same Publish → Move to Active → copy URL steps as above.

Publishing a folder shares that folder and everything inside it—subfolders and docs included.

From Core → Publish

  1. Open Core → Publish in the left sidebar.
  2. Click a publish record to open its detail view, or create publish from the entity first (steps above) and return here to manage many links in one place.
  3. Use the publish panel to move between draft and active, or copy the public URL.

What Recipients Do

Recipients paste the public URL into a browser. They do not need an account.

If the publish is active, they see a read-only version of the entity. If it is still draft, or sharing was revoked, they see a not-found page.

Tips

  • Use draft while you edit the entity or check what will be visible, then activate when ready.
  • The public URL stays the same when you toggle draft and active, so you do not need to resend the link after a temporary revoke.
  • Schedule exports are separate: those are iCal feeds for calendar apps, not the entity publish feature described here.