Share links
Copy an in-app link to a snapshot of your current view and send it to a teammate. The toolbar Share link button does it in one click.
You've spotted something worth passing along — a drop-off in a Steps chart, a surprising edge in Transitions — and you want a teammate looking at exactly what you're looking at. A share link snapshots your current view and hands you a link to send.
Create a share link
You'll find the Share link button in the analysis toolbar, next to Compare, Export as PNG, and Save. It works the same in Events, Sessions, and What-If workspaces.
A share link freezes your filters, tab, and Compare setup — not the data behind them. If new events land in the source after you share, your recipient sees today's data through your saved filters, not the exact figures you saw when you clicked share.
The link points right back into the app — an analysis URL with a ?chart= parameter pointing at the snapshot. Open it and you drop straight into the workspace with the saved state already applied.
Who can open a share link
A share link stays inside your workspace — it's not a public URL. To open it, your recipient has to:
- Be signed in to Cohortum as a member of the same workspace.
- Have access to the source the analysis is built on.
Access works the same here as everywhere else. Owners and Admins reach every project; Creators and Viewers see only the projects they've been granted. Members and roles covers how access gets assigned.
The no-access view
Open a link you can't reach and you won't hit an error or a broken screen. You get a degraded "no access" view instead: the workspace chrome still loads, but the canvas shows a lock icon and a short message — say, "No access to this source" with a nudge to ask the source owner or a workspace admin for access. No filters, no data, nothing leaks.
Share links open inside the app — they aren't public URLs. A teammate who isn't signed in to your workspace, or who can't reach the source, can't see the analysis. Signed out? They hit login first, then land on the shared view. Signed in but missing source access? They get the no-access view above. There's no anonymous link today.
Share links vs. saved analyses
A share link and a saved analysis run on the same snapshot machinery, but they part ways in one important spot.
| Share link | Saved analysis | |
|---|---|---|
| How you create it | Share link button | Save / Save as |
| Visibility | Always Shared | Private or Shared (your choice) |
| Appears in the Saved list | No — hidden | Yes |
| Best for | A quick "look at this" | Analyses you'll return to |
A share link is a quick, on-the-fly snapshot, not a deliberate save — so it's flagged as a link-share and stays out of the Saved table, keeping your Saved list clear of one-off links. When you want an analysis to live in the Saved list and stay easy to find, use Save instead.
Lifetime, re-sharing, and revoking
Every click of Share link mints a new, independent snapshot — it never overwrites a link you sent before. Tweak your filters, share again, and the old link keeps working with its original state while the new one captures the update. So a single analysis can have several live links out there, each pinned to the view it came from.
Share links don't expire on their own. A link stays good until access changes — the recipient loses access to the source, leaves the workspace, or the source or project gets deleted. From then on, the link resolves to the no-access view instead of the analysis.
Since link-shares stay out of the Saved list, there's nowhere today to review "links I've shared" or delete one you regret. Shared the wrong view? Your only move is to pull the recipient's access to the source or workspace — see Members and roles.
Coming soon: public share pages
You might spot a standalone /share route. Public share pages — a read-only view anyone can open without signing in — are coming soon and don't work yet. For now, stick with the in-app Share link button and make sure your recipient is a workspace member with source access.