Work on pages together: sharing, edit locks and auto-save

What’s new

Feature	What it does
Page sharing	Share a page with chosen colleagues or with everyone in your account. Pages shared with you appear on a new Shared With Me tab.
Page transfer	Make another user the owner of a page, and keep working on it if you want to.
Edit locks	One person edits a page at a time. Everyone else sees who is editing and can ask for the page.
Auto-save	Unpublished changes are saved every minute and offered back if your tab closes or the page changes hands.
Admin settings	Account admins can share every page with everyone, and let selected users open and edit every page.

How the pieces fit

Sharing decides who can open a page. Edit locks decide who is editing it right now. Auto-save makes sure nobody’s work is lost when a page changes hands.

So you can share a proposal with a colleague, let them pick it up while you’re out, and come back to find your own unpublished changes waiting in your Drafts.

Limits and timings

What	Limit
Time an editor has to answer a request for the page	30 seconds
Editor inactivity before the owner can take over	2 minutes
Time before a page is freed if the editor’s browser stops responding	5 minutes
Time between auto-saves while there are unpublished changes	1 minute
Saved copies kept per person, per page	10 (about 5 minutes apart)
Time before an unclaimed copy is removed	30 days
Unfinished new pages kept per person	5
Largest page content that can be auto-saved	1 MB

Articles in this series

• Share a page with your team
• Find pages you share and pages shared with you
• Transfer a page to someone else
• When someone else is editing a page
• Request access to a page or take it over
• Auto-save: recover unpublished changes
• Account-wide sharing settings (admins) (for account admins)