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Sharing builds with your team

Every build in your library has a sharing scope that controls who, beyond you, can find and load it. The default is private. Share a build with your group or your whole organization and it appears on your teammates' Team builds tab; publish it and it goes to the community for any pilot to browse and fork.

Sharing never hands out edit rights. Only the owner can change the original: teammates load a shared build read-only or copy it into their own library and change the copy.

The four scopes#

ScopeWho can find and load it
PrivateOnly you. The default for every build.
Your groupEveryone in your group inside your organization.
OrganizationEveryone at your organization.
PublicPublished to the community for any pilot to browse and fork, and still visible to your organization.

A group is a smaller team inside your organization. The scope always refers to your own group and your own organization: you cannot share into a team you do not belong to. If you are not in a group yet, the group option is disabled ("You are not in a group yet"); if you are not in an organization, group and organization sharing are unavailable. Group membership is managed by your organization admin; see Managing users.

Public sharing is gated separately: it requires that community publishing is available on your account. When it is not, the option is disabled with "Community sharing isn't available on your account right now." Publishing a build also snapshots it into the community, and the dialog then offers a View it in the community link.

Changing a build's scope#

  1. Open the Build menu on the Builder page, then Build library.
  2. On the My builds tab, every row carries a scope pill (a lock for Private, or the group, Organization, or Public label). Click it.
  3. The Share build dialog opens, listing the four scopes with a description of exactly who would see the build. Click a scope to apply it immediately.
  4. The line at the bottom confirms the result: "Right now this build is visible to only you", "everyone at your organization", and so on. Press Done to close.

Setting a build back to Private withdraws it from the Team builds tab.

The Team builds tab#

The Build library panel has a second tab, Team builds, showing builds your teammates have shared: organization-wide builds and public builds from your organization, plus group builds from your group. Your own builds never appear here; they are on My builds. Each row names the build, shows its scope tag, and says who shared it ("shared by ...").

Two actions are available on a shared build:

  • Load puts the shared build onto your bench so you can inspect and analyze it. You cannot save over the original: saving from the bench writes into your own library under whatever name you give it.
  • Copy to my library forks the build into your own library as a private copy that you own outright. If you already have a build with that name, the copy is named with a "(copy)" suffix. The panel switches to My builds so you can see it land.

If you are not part of an organization, the tab explains there is no team workspace; if nobody has shared anything yet, it says so.

Access rules, precisely#

  • The owner always sees and edits their own build, whatever its scope.
  • Group builds are visible only to members of that same group; organization and public builds are visible to members of that same organization.
  • A build id from outside your organization resolves to nothing: shared builds cannot be reached by guessing links.
  • The scope you set is recorded server-side against your own organization and group, never a value chosen by the browser.