Can't see which boxes are checked in Sharing Options

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#1

Steps to reproduce

Starting from scratch, what are the steps to make the bug happen? The fewer the steps, the better.

  1. Right-click a document that has been shared
  2. Click on Manage Sharing Options

Expected result

What do you expect to see after carrying out the steps above?

For a document thatā€™s visible via a link, the respective option that enables that should be visible.

Actual result

Instead of the expected result, what happened?

Nothing is checked, but the documentā€™s still blue (and works with whatever it was set to before).

Environment

Which operating system are you using? Which browser are you using? If youā€™re using a desktop or mobile app, whatā€™s the version number of Dynalist?

Chrome/Win10

Additional information

This doesnā€™t appear to affect the desktop app, fortunately.

#2

Wait, itā€™s not possible to share a folder via link, is it?

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#3

Youā€™re right. Fixed; thanks.

#4

I think the behavior is expected here. Being blue means itā€™s shared, just with no one at all. We donā€™t want to assume the user wants to share it with someone or share it publicly when he/she starts sharing.

Not sure if that means sense?

#5

The black ticks donā€™t appear in the checkboxes for when a document that was set to be viewable and/or editable by anyone with a link to it.

#6

Iā€™m so confused. Are you using the steps you posted originally? In that case itā€™s expected that nothing is checked.

If you manually checked the checkbox and came back later to find the checkbox no longer checked, that would be a problem.

#7

Iā€™m really sorry about the confusion.

What youā€™ve described in the second paragraph is what it is.

Edit:
This is how it looks like on the web:

(Also on the bottom, it fills an email of someone Iā€™ve last shared a document with, whereas on the desktop, itā€™s blank.)

This is how it looks like on the desktop app:

#8

I think I get it now.

Youā€™re talking about the out of sync sharing options between web and desktop, right? I thought you were talking about using the same platform all along, which is also why I couldnā€™t reproduce the issue.

Files syncing do need some work on desktop, so Iā€™m not surprised. Restart the app and the sharing options should be synced (I could be wrong though).

#9

I think hereā€™s a better way to summarize it.

Letā€™s say some millennia ago I made a dynalist document and enabled it to be visible and editable by anyone with the link.

By around the time I posted this forum post, I had checked the documentā€™s sharing permissions and saw that the permissions to make the document visible and editable were not ticked.

However, when I tried loading the link link in an incognito tab. I was able to do both.

So I opened the desktop app to see if it was affected as well, which fortunately it wasnā€™t.

But on the browser, it still shows that itā€™s unchecked, even though Iā€™ve never changed the settings.

I hope that makes sense. I originally included too much info in my OP that I thought might be helpful, but wasnā€™t.