Add ability to share elements with 'unique' URL

[alex2702]

Desired Feature: It would be great to have a way to share single books/chapters/pages with a single party without requiring them to have an account. I realize it is possible to just make an element available to the public but this is not a great solution if I want to share content with multiple parties. Let‘s say I want to share book A with person X and book B with person Y. I don‘t think there is a way to do this without sharing books A and B with X and Y by making both books publicly available. What I am thinking about is an obscured link with a hash like Google Docs does it. I haven't been using BookStack for too long, so maybe I'm missing a clever way to achieve this with the existing permission system?

[ssddanbrown]

@wutfan Thanks for this request. I agree this would be a great feature and there's not currently a way to do this.

[tomershvueli]

I would also love to see this functionality!

[yoyokko]

https://github.com/koios-sh/BookStack/commit/3227cef715ec0b29dd82ca78171519df40cd9f1d

Hijack the authenticate and bypass the url prefix '/books/', '/search/', '/uploads/images/', set the permission of one book to public, close global 'public access', and I have this feature with minimum code changes.

Hope for the official implements with QRCode url.

[jrnp97]

Any update? :)

[sense-design]

This would be a great feature

[Jeremylepr]

This feature really need to be implemented.

[Shootify]

yes please...

[caydenmb]

Agreed, I would utilize this feature a lot.

[Dylan-Miles]

This feature would be very useful!

[aware2]

+1 for this feature ❤️

[onthebackof]

Would be great 👍

[mfx-jgoetzinger]

+1

[artworklv]

I totally agree, having the ability to share things using a unique URL would be an excellent feature to have!

[scaphandroid]

+1 !

[skarados]

Yes please! +1!

[chdcomputers]

I also agree and I would like to add the following ideas:

1. To have control over the obscured link. Probably by assigning a GUID or something else as a unique ID to each of them.
2. Add expiration date so after a specified date and time the link won't be available any more.
3. To have the ability to share the same thing with more than one obscured links.
4. Add an optional description for the obscured link which will be logged (audited) along with the visits to those links
5. The visits to these links should trigger a webhook

Cheers!

[lucas-strummer]

+1! Thank you!

[Limerick-gh]

+1 That would be missing piece to establish Bookstack within my department, since we don't want the hassle of username/password authentication with the end-users.

[DanMundy]

+1

[DerMilderJoghurt]

+1