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Joining a project

Joining is how a shared project reaches a device that does not have it yet — a new tablet on set, a producer's laptop, anyone the invite from Sharing a project was sent to.

Opening the joining screen​

From the home screen's toolbar, choose Join a shared project…. Unlike opening a project, joining does not need one already on your device — that is the point of it — so it is reachable at all times from the home screen, not from inside a project you would need to have first.

The screen that opens is titled "Join a shared project", with two tabs: Scan (tablet) and Enter manually.

The Join a shared project screen

Scanning or pasting the invite​

You need the invite someone shared with you, in whichever form it reached you:

  • On a tablet or phone, the Scan (tablet) tab offers a camera scan: point the camera at the QR code shown on the sharing screen of the device that invited you.
  • On desktop, use Enter manually and paste the Invite link you were sent into that field, then choose Join.

Either way resolves to the same invite; there is nothing else to configure. A banner on the screen reminds you what joining does: it creates a full local copy of the project by downloading the relay's snapshot, then keeps syncing, and a new card appears on the home screen once it is done.

What joining actually does​

Confirming the invite:

  1. Asks where the project lands: on a computer, a folder picker lets you choose — it suggests the folder you last saved a project in — and the project creates its own folder inside whichever one you pick; on a tablet or phone, where there is no such dialog, it is placed alongside your other projects automatically. Cancelling the picker cancels the join.
  2. Downloads the project's current content from the relay named in the invite, into a fresh project file there.
  3. Records the project's pairing, so your device is now syncing against the same relay as everyone else who joined it.
  4. Opens the project.

From here your device behaves like any other one holding the project: it has a full copy, works offline, and syncs its edits the moment it can reach the relay again — see How collaboration works for what that means day to day.

If you cannot reach the relay​

Joining needs a working connection to the relay at the moment you join, since it has to download the project. If the relay is unreachable — no network on set, an address that changed — wait until you have a connection, or ask whoever is hosting to hand you a fresh invite if the relay itself has moved (see The on-set server).