A share link normally opens the whole document, every tab of it. Sometimes you only want to show one: the roadmap to a client, but not the pricing tab next to it. A link scoped to one tab does exactly that, without copying the tab into a new document.
Scoping a new link
When a document has more than one tab, the Share dialog gains an Opens dropdown just above Valid. Leave it on All tabs for an ordinary link, or pick the tab you want to share (tabs are listed in tab bar order), then Create Pass. The role still applies: a one-tab link can be an Editor, Participant or Viewer pass.
You can make as many links as you like, each scoped differently: one tab to one person, another tab to someone else, and an All-tabs link for your team. A link opens one tab or all of them; it can't open a chosen handful.
What the visitor sees
Someone opening a one-tab link lands straight on that tab, whichever tab the document was last left on. The other tabs stay in their tab bar as Not shared pills, so they know the document has more, but without names or folders, and nothing happens when they press one (hovering says "This tab isn't shared with you"). An element link, search result or keyboard shortcut that points at another tab only shows the message "That tab isn't shared with you".
The other tabs are private, not just hidden. Their content never reaches the visitor's browser: not their shapes, not their names, not their comments, not their live edits. With an Editor pass the visitor can change their tab, but not rename, add, reorder, lock or delete tabs, use tab folders, rename the document, or open the slide deck (a deck spans tabs).
The scope follows the link everywhere it goes:
- The Copy button in the header makes the visitor a copy of their tab only.
- An embed of the link shows its tab only.
- A live image of the link always shows its tab, so its menu has no Tab picker.
Changing a link's tabs
On a document with more than one tab, every pass in the Share dialog shows which tabs it opens, beside Opens. Change it there at any time: widen a one-tab link to All tabs, narrow an All-tabs link to one tab, or move it to another tab. The link's URL stays the same, and anyone using it right now reloads into the new choice.
Deleting the tab a link is scoped to deletes that link too. Anyone using it leaves the document, just as if you had revoked it.
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