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Saikeerthan
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November 8, 2019
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[Share]-How to share all artboards in XD with no interaction?

  • November 8, 2019
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when i try to share the project, 2 screens are not sharing ..

 

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    Correct answer Arun Kaza

    Here's how I would expect the share functionality to work:

    You click the share tab. You get to create a link and select ANY artboards you want to share with that link regardless of what's going on in the prototype tab (it can select the prototyped ones by default if there are any and select all of the artboards by default if there are no prototyped artboards). There should be a "select all" button because sometimes people design a lot of screens. Then you can OPTIONALLY pick a home artboard to share with THAT specific link and you can simply click it again to remove the home artboard (it can default to the first one in the series if left unset).

     

    Then, I simply click "update link" and it updates the link (because my first step was creating or selecting a link). At any point I can rename links and use the checkboxes to control what UI is being shown when someone visits the link.

    So basically I'd recommend making the LINK higher up in the hierarchy and let the user make some much more intuitive decisions for that specific link when it comes to which artboards to share.


    Hi,

    I see your point here about being able to publish all artboards. Given that there is a home artboard already set on canvas, and there is no direct way of removing it, you are unable to publish all screens. We understand that this can be annoying.  


    Please note that we are going to provide the ability to set and unset of a Home artboard in Prototype mode soon. Apart from that, we are also thinking about providing a way to publish all artboards from Share mode, irrespective of whether you have wired a flow or not.

     

    To your point about selecting artboards in Share mode and not respecting any wires set in Prototype mode, would that not be confusing? Why would you define home, wire screens like a flow in Prototype and not want any of that to carry over into Share mode?

     

    13 replies

    gustavos56078190
    gustavos56078190
    Inspiring
    May 15, 2023

    I it odd that a siple function for sharing all artboard does not exsist, it takes forever to link all pages just to share them, or simple select All and share , I have 50 pages each time u need to zoom in and out to find and link pages - this is not best parctice in my opinion  and it take alot of time and energy

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    Alex-Bramwell
    Participant
    July 14, 2021

    The way this works is horrible. However, this is how it works...

    Within your file you may have  2 versions of (for example) your website. Mobile and Desktop. You obviously prototype each indevidually. You CANT share them via one link:

    Flow 1 (Mobile) gets it's own link to share.
    Flow 2 (Dekstop) gets it's own link to share.

    I really wish you could share multiple flows with just one link.

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    mvardi
    Participant
    October 18, 2020

    I updated the new version of XD and now when I share my old file ALL the artboard is being shared... I don't even know where to start... How do I get it back to only share what was being linked in the prototype? 

    HARSHIKA_VERMA
    Community Manager
    HARSHIKA_VERMACommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    October 20, 2020

    Hi there, 

     

    Thank you for reaching out. Would you mind checking if you have made any home artboard in the design? In order to share only the linked artboard you need to make sure that one artboard is the home artboard.

     

    Let us know if that works.

     

    Thanks,

    Harshika

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    cdckey13
    Participant
    August 1, 2020

    But this doesn't solve the issue? If you don't want everything linked (ongoing work or screens that don't have buttons made to link from yet) but a developer is working on them, how do they get to the screens to download assets etc without removing the protoype links.
    If you're only showing a short flow to a client but have the other screens for developers, they all need to be accessible

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    Noyamusic
    Participant
    May 1, 2020

    I have a problem with a project - When trying to share the file for review or for dev, the share function doesn't include all of the artboards but all of the artboards are wired and connected to the home page and I can't figure it out! This is the first time I'm having the problem and I have no idea how to fix it. Can anyone advise? (Image attached.)

     

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      Rishabh_Tiwari
      Community Manager
      Rishabh_TiwariCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      May 1, 2020

      Hi there,

       

      Sorry to hear about the trouble. Could you please try unsettling the home page and check if you are able to publish all artboards. In case if that doesn't work, please share the following details:

       

      1. The version of Adobe XD.
      2. Is this happening on a specific file or multiple files?

       

      Regards

      Rishabh

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      rawans44740227
      Participant
      April 29, 2020

      Hello, I am having the same issue as everyone else, I try to share my XD file with developers or viewers and there are some screens that are greyed out and won't appear in the shared link or for the developers to use. AND I HAVE tried the solution you mentioned, which is link all artboards to the home, but STILL the problem occurs. and this is highly frustrating, I have a deadline - PLEASE tell me what to do so I can fix this? 

      Rishabh_Tiwari
      Community Manager
      Rishabh_TiwariCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      April 29, 2020

      Hi Rawan,

       

      Sorry to hear about the trouble. If you have a home artboard, could you please unset the home artboard and then check if the link has all the artboards.

       

      Regards

      Rishabh

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        rawans44740227
        Participant
        April 30, 2020

        I have tried unsetting and setting the home page again as you mentioned and it is still not working. I have all artboards connected to the homepage and still not working, I have 40 screens on there and I have had files with over 70 screens in the past and all was fine when shared, but something with the new update messed things up. I don't know what other information I can give you to help me fix this, I have clients waiting  and I have cancelled my Zeplin subsription so that I can use Adobe Xd share, but seems like that was a mistake. Please tell me what to do to fix this 

        Peter Villevoye
        Community Expert
        Peter VillevoyeCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        February 1, 2020

        From the new January 2020 update new features page:

        "Now, you can share individual artboards from Prototype mode without any wired interactions with your collaborators."

        https://helpx.adobe.com/nl/xd/help/whats-new/2020.html

         

        So you don't need to or hook up pages to some interaction anymore, just to get it shared for review.

        You still might need to switch or set the Homepage label.

          slsmithVN
          slsmithVN
          Participant
          February 4, 2020

          This still isn't fixed. I just tried wiring each of my 5 boards together to the 'Home' artboard... however, it's still only preventing me from sharing any artboard other than the one that I've set as the Home artboard. There's no way to toggle OFF the Home artboard, so once you set it, you must leave it set to Home, or select one of the other boards as Home. I even tried creating new artboards in the same project, and copying and pasting all my assets from each original artboard to the new ones, then deleted all the original artboards, thinking that this would surely remove the original artboard that I had set as the 'Home' board. But instead of clearing the Home flag setting, it automatically set one of my new artboards as the Home board. That makes no sense.

           

          The only workaround I've been able to find so far is to create an entirely new project, with new artboards, and then copy/paste all assets from each artboard of my original project into the new project. Lucky for me, I only have 6 boards in this project. This is obviously not a reasonable solution, even temporarily, for projects that have dozens of artboards. The proper fix for this is to allow either the 'Home' to be toggled on/off, and if no artboard has been set to Home and no artboards are selected in the Prototype screen, then ALL artboards are shared. Or, share only the specific artboards that have been selected in Prototype screen. regardless of whether or not the boards have been wired together or any board has been set to Home.

          Peter Villevoye
          Community Expert
          Peter VillevoyeCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          February 5, 2020

          A staff member replied in this thread that "the select/deslect of home art-board will be seen in upcoming releases".

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          mattolpinski
          Participating Frequently
          January 31, 2020

          The ability to set/unset a home artboard and publish all artboards regardless of what is wired up in prototype mode would be welcomed updates.

           

          Selecting artboards in Share mode and respecting the wires in Prototype mode are not mutually exclusive. It'd be awesome if the default selected artboards in Share mode were the ones with wired prototype interactions. It'd also be nice if "all artboards" was the default when no screens have been wired/prototyped.

           

          But when you get into Share mode, why not let the user override any of the selections and simply select/deselect the artboards they want to share for that specific link? That would be amazing functionality and really make XD much more usable.

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            mariellel78807418
            Participant
            January 31, 2020

            It's absolutely crazy that there is no option do unselect a Home screen in the prototype. We haven't even touched the prototype and suddenly it seems a Home screen was selected for us, and now we are unable to share all of the screens at once. Is the only way to work around this is to copy and paste everything into a new document ? We have all of our fonts, colors and components set up in our file for the developers and now we will have to recreate ALL of these in a new document. There needs to be an easier way to share screens without interactions. We have no wires set up in the prototype and yet we still can not share. 

             

            It's devastating that there is no solution for this, we've been searching for hours now to come up with no way to continue sharing all screens at once. 

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              cfmorandin
              Participating Frequently
              January 14, 2020

              Don't know if it will help anyone else, but I managed to get my one artboard file to share by creating a hover interact in a component. That seemed to do the trick.

              The one artboard was automatically set to home artboard and as far as I know you can't 'un-set' it.

                HARSHIKA_VERMA
                Community Manager
                HARSHIKA_VERMACommunity Manager
                Community Manager
                January 24, 2020

                Thank you for sharing the solution that worked for you. Please feel free to reach out to us in the future for any query related to Adobe XD. We would be happy to help.

                 

                Thanks,

                Harshika

                mattyB
                mattyB
                Inspiring
                November 8, 2019

                I work for a tech company, Ex Sketch user converted to Xd.
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                Yes sharing prototypes between dev's and designers is great for the dev hand off.
                However now and again I use the share link to show non designers separate pages. I now HAVE to PNG them and send them over. BUT: If prototype is in the document I now no longer can quickly share - my question is why change this? Need help with your Ux hit me up.

                Also I have a big project with multipul screen sizes in and because some of the work is prototyped I cant share all artbords for viewing because I have to set the home artboard....what? makes no sense. It makes sense if your only sharing a prototype but why take away a good option of just simply being able to view. Some people don't have time to go through the steps of the design they just want to see the Ui.

                Thanks Matt
                (here all week)

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