Sharing templates

Once you have prepared and saved a template, you can share it with anyone — colleagues, clients, family members or even counterparties.

Approach

When you share a template or document, you generate a unique hyperlink that will lead to your template, or to a specific document (e.g. https://app.clausebase.com/ml/qfVnNApNnjdR7v2C).

You can then send or publish this hyperlink any way you want — e.g., send it by email to a client, send it to your family members through WhatsApp, publish it on your intranet towards colleagues, or even publish it on your website. Other users can simply click on it (or copy/paste it in their browser) and fill out the template or change the document you shared; no separate username or password is required.

The downside of this anonymous approach is, of course, that once you share, you have no control over where the hyperlink will ultimately end up.

While you can somewhat mitigate this risk by setting an expiry date, it is probably not a good idea to share sensitive templates in this way. (A better alternative is to create named accounts with a separate security code for such sensitive material.)

Prerequisites to share documents & templates

• You must have a paid version of ClauseBuddy Pro account.

• A template must be saved in one of your folders before you can share it.

• Your administrator must have enabled the "Share templates & documents" right in your user settings (see the user management page).

• At least one anonymous account must be present in your customer account (learn more about anonymous accounts on the user management page).

How to initiate sharing

You can initiate the sharing by either going to Settings > Share ...

... or by visiting the Templates Overview panel and clicking on an existing template and going to the Share submenu item:

Configuration

Allow export to

This setting allows you to specify whether the recipient is allowed to export to PDF and/or to a DOCX file.

You may, for example, deliberately disallow exporting a template to DOCX when you want to avoid that the sharing-link's recipient would be able to alter the resulting document in Microsoft Word.

Expiry date

Sharing-links are anonymous and can be used by anyone, so you can never be sure whether a recipient of your link will on his/her turn send the link to someone else. It is therefore probably a good idea to set an expiry date on your link.

The default setting is an expiry date of one month.

Internal note

ClauseBuddy tracks the usage of your sharing-links. The usage reports (available at request) will show you the internal note you specified (e.g., "NDA for accounting department" vs. a different link with "NDA for sales"), so you can figure out who used your sharing-links.

Account to use

When multiple anonymous accounts exist in your customer account, you can specify which account should be used for the sharing-link you are about to create.

For most ClauseBuddy users, this setting can be ignored (most will probably not have multiple anonymous accounts anyway, so the setting would not even be shown). However, it does allow for interesting scenarios for advanced users, as they can for example create accounts with different settings (language, access rights, different connections to third party services, etc.).

Create link

Once you are done configuring the sharing-link, you can click on the purple button at the bottom, and subsequently copy the resulting link to your computer's clipboard.