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Sharing Houzz Ideabooks

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You may already be using ideabooks personally or to collaborate with clients or colleagues. Did you know you have sharing settings to specifically control who can view or edit your ideabooks?

You can:
• Set your ideabooks to public or private, or share them with only certain people.
• Enable others to just view, or view and edit your ideabooks for easy collaboration.

Here are 4 easy steps to get you started:
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Step 1: Go to your ideabook and click the “Collaborate” button located just below the ideabook title - in this case you'll see it below "Kitchen Ideas".
Sharing Houzz Ideabooks
Save Photo
Step 2: Select whether you would like this ideabook to be public or private.

Tip: Public ideabooks are visible to anyone visiting your profile. Private ideabooks are visible only to you and the specific people you choose to share them with.
Sharing Houzz Ideabooks
Save Photo
Step 3: Enter the email addresses of anyone you would like to share your ideabook with.

To finish up, click "Add" to save your changes and to send the invitations to the people you entered in Step 3.

If you want to stop at this step, be sure to click "Save Settings".
Sharing Houzz Ideabooks
Save Photo
Step 4: Select whether you want to give the people you are inviting permission to view your ideabook, or to view and edit the ideabook.

If you give permission to edit your ideabook, the people you invite will be able to add, remove or comment on the photos inside. This can be a fantastic tool for collaboration with colleagues or with clients.


Tip: You can view and edit these sharing settings - including removing a collaborator - at anytime by clicking the "Collaborate" button within each ideabook.

Tip: Be sure to click "Save Settings" or your changes will be lost.

For more best practices, follow Professionals on Houzz.
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phenie53

If I enter comments about a photo in my private idea book, will this be seen by anyone else? I want to make comments, such as, "This is an example of what I DON'T want," but I don't want that comment seen by anyone else.

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Complete Design Inc.

I am trying to make an idea book private. The 'Make Ideabook Private' is grayed out and will not set to green or private. any ideas?

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Bella Rosetti's Home Interiors

Complete Design Inc. This is what I found. Go to the top of your profile picture and click on ideabook and the on the one you are trying to make private click on ....more at the top of the book then edit, organize, settings then done. Hope this helps.

 Like     May 20, 2019 at 11:11AM
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