Share designs with Studio from Desktop

In Polimake Desktop you create; in Studio your team and your clients review, comment, approve and plan. To move a design from one to the other you don't export anything: you share it and, from then on, it's in both places and up to date. What you don't share doesn't leave your computer.

To share, you need to be signed in with your Polimake account.

Share a design

1. Open the project in Desktop and find the design in Videos and images.
2. Right-click it and choose Share…. If you select several at once, the question will be Share N images?.
3. The first time, the project isn't in the cloud yet and Desktop asks you Where it's shared:
   • a Studio project that already exists, or
   • A new one, created in the cloud with your project's name, in the Cloud space you choose.
4. Choose the Publication date: with a date, the piece shows in the Studio calendar as a draft; with No date, it goes to Folders.
5. Click Share.

From then on, the design's card has a cloud icon. Next time you're not asked where: it's shared in the same Studio project. For now, images are shared; videos stay on your computer.

How it stays up to date

• What you change in Desktop uploads on its own when you save, once you stop editing for a moment.
• What others change in Studio comes down on its own to your design, without touching the photos on your computer.
• Right-click and Copy the cloud link gives you the design's link in Studio, to pass to whoever needs to review it.

If a photo doesn't show in Studio, right-click offers Repair (a photo doesn't show in Studio): Desktop uploads it again from your computer.

Bring in what others created

Below your pieces, in the project, there's In the cloud: the designs in the Studio project that you don't have on your computer yet. Nothing downloads on its own.

1. Open In the cloud.
2. Click a design and confirm Bring "name"?. Or select several, right-click and click Download.

What you bring in is downloaded to your project and stays shared: what you change here or in Studio reaches the other side. If you already have everything, you'll see Everything in the cloud is already here.

If it changed in both places

If someone changed the design in Studio while you were changing it in Desktop, the card says In conflict: it changed here and in Studio at the same time. Nothing is lost: both versions are kept and you choose with one click.

• Keep the one on this computer: your version replaces Studio's, for everyone in the project. Desktop asks you to confirm first.
• Use Studio's: your design becomes Studio's version.

If it was deleted in Studio but you had changed it, you'll see Deleted in Studio, but you had changed it here, with Bring it back with the one on this computer or Leave it deleted.

Stop sharing

1. Right-click the design and choose Stop sharing….
2. Nothing changes on your computer. For the cloud, choose:
   • Keep the copy in the cloud: it stays in Studio, but it's no longer updated.
   • Also delete in the cloud: it disappears from Studio for everyone in the project.

Frequently asked questions

Does my whole project upload to Studio?

No. Only what you share uploads, design by design. The rest of the project and your material stay on your computer.

Can I share a video?

Not for now: from Desktop you share images and designs.

What if two people change the same design?

Both versions are kept and the design is marked In conflict. You choose which one counts with Keep the one on this computer or Use Studio's.

Where does my client review what I share?

In Studio, in the project where you shared it: in the calendar if it has a date, or in Folders if it doesn't. See Approve and send back pieces.