Dear Thortspace … questions about sharing permissions and publishing
As a user I have a default sphere with some number of spheres on it which may or may not be linked to other spheres. And if I have a set of linked spheres I could publish some of them though not all of them — correct?
Last question first: Yes, correct. Both (1) being publically viewable and (2) sharing permissions (read-only and read-write) are currently controllable only by the sphere owner at the sphere level of granularity.
(Plausibly it could and should be controllable at other levels as well… In particular you probably shouldn’t be able to edit other people’s thorts, maybe unless you are the sphere owner or you are given explicit permission to do so, but currently if you are given edit permissions on a sphere, you can edit any thort. In mitigation of this, we do keep a historic record of previous versions of spheres (one the history tab), although this history does not go the detail of every single edit or change made by a user to a sphere.)
Re. the “default sphere” question: the sphere that opens when you open the app is just the one you had open when you last closed the app.
However the Search tab allows you to find any sphere by words in the title, or if you are a subscriber to the Thortspace Free or Premium services, you can do full text search on any spheres that have been shared with you (Free) any sphere you have created or is shared with you (Premium).
More about publishing spheres is here:
More about sharing spheres and collaboration is here:
More about linking and embedding spheres is here:
Those last 2 articles are part of a series of 15 articles which introduces the basic functionality of Thortspace which are all listed on the following landing page:
