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Sharing Documents & Social Previews

Every published document in Standalone Qwiki has a clean, readable URLβ€”plus an optional cryptographic Share Link for sending someone directly to a distraction-free, full-screen view.

Share Document modal showing full-screen link copy, social share buttons, and admin sharing controls

Link Type Example Best Used For
Canonical Clean URL /getting-started/features Linking inside a portal when readers should see the sidebar and Table of Contents
Full-Screen Share Link /?share=a1b2c3d4e5f67890 Sending a single page to clients, external reviewers, or social channels in clean reader mode

Sharing a Document

  1. Open the document you want to share.
  2. Click the Share button in the document toolbar.
  3. Click πŸ“‹ Copy next to Full-Screen Share Link to copy the unguessable 16-character hexadecimal share URL (?share=...), or choose one of the built-in 1-click social actions (𝕏, LinkedIn, Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, or Slack).
Note

Even when an administrator runs Qwiki as a Private Portal requiring login for normal browsing, an explicitly enabled Allow Public Sharing link lets external recipients view that specific published document in full-screen mode without creating an accountβ€”while keeping the rest of the wiki locked.

When you paste a document URL or share link into Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, or X, Standalone Qwiki automatically serves:

  • The document's title and short description (either configured in Display & SEO settings or extracted cleanly from the first paragraph, with YAML frontmatter stripped).
  • A social preview banner image (per-document banner if configured, or the site default banner).

Inside the Share Document modal, administrators see Admin Access Controls:

  • Allow Public Sharing: Uncheck to turn off public share-link access for the document.
  • πŸ”„ Reset Key: Generates a brand-new 16-character hexadecimal share key and immediately invalidates any previously distributed share links for that page.

For programmatic share-key resolution in automation scripts, see the Headless Publishing API.