Open Community Access
December 01, 2022
Open Community Access (OCA) provides read-only access to the entire repository in Prolaborate. Users can access repository information on live with a short URL link which does not require any authentication.
Prerequisites
- Open Community Access should be purchased as an ‘Add-on’ to be included in the Prolaborate License
- Admin should have access to the repository to enable the option in Repository Settings
Notes:
- This feature is only available from Prolaborate version 4.3
- Due to security reasons, OCA is available for an ‘On Premise’ environment
- It is free for Large Teams and Enterprise edition of Prolaborate. For the Growing Teams edition, the feature must be purchased as an add-on
- For a Cloud environment, the customers must purchase a Read-Only license additionally to obtain the same benefit
Enable Open Community Access
To enable Open Community Access, go to Menu > Repository Settings. Toggle the button under Open Community Access to enable the feature. Once enabled, click Save to save the configurations.
Share a Repository
After enabling Open Community Access and saving the configurations, navigate to the ‘Repositories’ listing page. Share option will be enabled under Actions column for each repository.
Click on it to open Share Repository popup window where a short URL will be available with the alias name given to the repository.
Click Copy icon to copy the URL. Once copied, simply share the URL with your users to give them read-only access to the entire repository.
When users visit the URL provided, they see default dashboard set for the repository and the contents in Repository Browser, based on the Sections configured for the specific repository.
