Permissions for groups/users when using the “Direct Access URL” feature

Question

How are permissions applied to groups/users when using the "Direct Access URL" feature?

Answer

The "direct access URL" functionality is designed for the very purpose of allowing anyone who has the link to get to the published link. That is why the link includes a generated security key. If you want to authenticate the reader, do not use this functionality, but use the "Copy url" functionality (careful, this is not the same as copying the link in the browser!)

This is used, for example, where authentication + authorization is handled in a different way (Confluence, Sharepoint, some documents, etc.) or if you simply need to make sure that (for example) everyone who clicks on the diagram actually gets to see it.

However, a diagram published in this way will only take the reader to the detail of the elements placed on the diagram, if they want to click further, for example via a hyperlink, it will already require a login.

A user can only create a url for direct access if he/she has rights to it.

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