What do you all actually do!?!? How has this been sat in 'Under-review' for TWO YEARS?!?!?!

Please get this feature done, I can't believe it's been under review for almost two years.
Me and my colleague need to be able to work on the same files with the same rights so we can share tasks and substitute for each other in times of vacation or illness.

This has put a complete halt to collaboration for our design team. Its a huge risk that a former employee now "owns" the URL that we share prototypes for a client with.

Shall I forward all the emails to Adobe where our client says "stop changing that URL, its getting confusing what version of the site we are meant to be looking at "

back to Zepplin.

I can't believe so much thought needs to be put into this! Just get it done! I guarantee you more people would rather have anybody that has permission to edit also be able to share the file over the way it currently is. This has been a nightmare. What makes it even more of a joke is adobe gives you absolutely no management tools to transfer ownership of an XD file so if an employee leaves and you need to reshare their files after making a change, you have to resave the file to your own cloud account and then reshare and generate new links.

@Jacob Goldstein,

I understand the thinking you're talking about, but I think the implemented solution addresses 1 use case, while causing a major pain point for a lot of other use cases.

The supported use case is:
- I as a user want to create a mock that only I can update, so other users don't change things and update the link without my knowledge.

Here are the use cases where it causes a pain point:

- I'm a UX designer. I make a mock and pass it to a UI designer for styling. The UI designer makes changes, but has to request that I update the mock, even though I trust them to update it when they feel the mock is ready (or after they get the go-ahead from a team leader).

- I'm going on vacation, so I pass some work to another designer to continue while I'm gone. The link to the prototype is in the features or dev specs. They can work on it, but they can't update the shared prototype. I'm on vacation on a beach somewhere drinking mojitos by the gallon and there's no way I'm opening a computer. Now they have to save-as, create their own link, update the link in the features in Jira/wherever, and deal with the developers who saved the original link emailing them asking why the prototype isn't updated.

- I work on a collaborative team where multiple stakeholders work on mockups depending on their area of expertise. For example I do the basic mock and information hierarchy, a colleague deals with animations, another colleague tackles the UX writing, a third designer is in charge of the design system and checks mocks for alignment to product guidelines and adherence to existing components. Every time one of them makes a change, they have to find me and ask me to update the mock, which is super annoying because I've already moved on to something and I'm not their manager, they should be able to update the mock whenever they feel like it.

- As part of our research process we often do field testing in pairs. Each UX will sit with a user in a different place. In the course of testing, my colleague finds an issue with the interaction, or some problem in the mock. They can't fix it/update it themselves, so they have to write it down, find me in between usability sessions, and update it, even though it's something really minor that they could update themselves.

These are all real situations that have happened to me personally. So the implementation I would say addresses maybe 5% of my mocks, where I really want full control. For 95% of the mocks, it's a big pain point.

The ideal solution would be, for each stakeholder in a mock, to allow them update abilities or not.

Just so you guys are aware, this functionality is so critical to us that you are losing our business because of it. We cant operate as a team if two people can't update the same shared URl.

Hi there. I work on a UX team of two. To get designs into our requirements document, we generate a share for development link and add the URL to the document. Currently, my teammate and I are not able to update the same URL, which makes working on the same file awkward. If he wants to publish a change to a file that I created he has to save his changes, close the file, tell me, I have to open the file, then I click Update. Some settings to allow multiple teammates to update the same URL would be really helpful.

Thanks!

If not added soon I'm sure this is going to be a real deal breaker for lots of design teams, that need to REAL COLLABORATE across team members, without having to create a new link, hence avoiding leaving behind outdated links everywhere that disrupt the development progress., without taking aside this is costing lots of money to companies because they are building code from an outdated link.

Adobe with this issue you are intentionally:
- Creating us unnecessary admin time
- Disrupting the creative workflow
- Annoying the relationship between clients - developers - designers
- Generating money loss to companies
- Making exported links attached to Jira integration pretty unreliables.
- etc...

and to close...

quote Jacob Goldstein (Adobe XD) (Engineering Manager, Adobe)
"This behavior in XD is intentional"

great....

Allow invited user share prototypes for review.

Yes, this would make collaborating much easier! Not having the ability to designate others as an owner (or the option for a single owner to allow non-owners to publish) is a regular issue for the team I work with. Perhaps when inviting another person to edit a file (cloud doc) there is an option you can check to allow that person to publish/update the prototype and design specs – this can be toggled on/off for each person invited.

As a studio of 5 users working sometimes on the same files, this is a nightmare...

When can we expect this feature to be implemented?

This is a must have and please can you add this feature as soon as possible.

It's a real must have else contributing to a file with multiple editors/publishers is impossible.. I have a file that someone else created. the published for review link has been commented on by a client.. I can't update the doc with out a new link created.. and of course doing that means i loose all the comments!! Even if i was invited to edit it i still can't publish it and update the same link.. please please fix this as it makes having one file thats shared pretty useless..

Right now, if I create a specs or a prototype link in my computer and my co-worker later opens the same file, she is obliged to create another new link. This causes problems that could be solved if we had 1 spec link and 1 prototype link per file.

We are on the same boat here. In our case, some of our designers work remotely with different adobe accounts. It is extremely annoying that we have to share to new links with our developers, each time we have an update. This is especially trouble making when the file owner has left the company/is no longer available.

Still not a feature? Come on already.
I make a design > A coworker has to edit it later > Must ask me to update the prototype > I'm on a vacation or dead or left the company... > Well crap.

Please please figure this out. I definitely want the be able to add another owner or at least another level so that another person on my team can share for development etc.

This is a blocker for any design team at scale. Its been 6 months since feature was requested. @Jacob Goldstein should we be expecting a fix ?

When i share same credentials for adobe ID for all the users which in this case max 2 machines. And what if i have more than 2 designers in my team?