🙌Collaboration

Invite your friends and collaborate effortlessly! Working together is more enjoyable and significantly more productive with Fortelling. Every new perspective will advance your story further.

This guide has already been updated for our upcoming 4.0 release. Learn more here.

Using Fortelling is a great way to collaborate with your friends on a project! Once you set it up, all your changes will sync automatically to the cloud, making everything very convenient. The app is optimized for collaboration. Use the logbook to track the changes made by others while you were offline. We also offer a built-in chat that allows you to collaborate smoothly.

Writers aren't exactly people, they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

~ John F. Fitzgerald

Team roles

Fortelling offers multiple roles for you and your teammates. The admin can assign the following four roles to a team member. They differ from each other based on editing rights. These roles can be used to determine the visibility of your story elements.

Role	Update	Edit	Read
Admin1	✅	✅	✅
Editor	✅	✅	✅
Viewer	🔴	🔴	✅
Public	🔴	🔴	✅ 2

Footnotes:

1. Only admins can edit project settings.

2. Public access is only available if the wiki is enabled.

Planned feature: defining custom roles. We plan to add support for custom roles in the future. This is especially useful for tabletop roleplaying in which you could show/hide story elements independently from editing / viewing rights.

Overview

Below is a brief overview of how to add someone as a team member to a project. Following this general description, a more detailed overview will be provided for the admin or a new team member.

1. The admin enables collaboration and shares code.

2. The new member enters the collaboration code on the home screen.

3. Admin approves the request.

For admins

As an admin, you maintain complete control. We highly value the privacy of your project. Therefore, your projects are hidden and invisible by default. When you enable collaboration, your project title and description will be visible to users with your collaboration code. None of your project content is publicly available when collaboration is enabled. Only if you activate the wiki and select elements to be public can others view your content.

Enable collaboration

Collaboration is turned off by default. This is to protect you from unwanted collaboration requests. Follow these steps to invite a user to your project.

1. Open your project.

2. Open the collaboration page from the menu.

3. Enable collaboration.

4. Copy the collaboration code.

5. Share the code with the new team member.

Collaboration requests

Did you get a request? Open the collaboration page of your project and decide what to do with it. You can accept or deny the request. If you deny the request, the other user can always send you a new request. The default role for a new member is the 'Viewer' role. You can change this by selecting a team member and assigning them another role.

There is no permanent way of preventing someone from sending you a new collaboration request. If someone is spamming you with unwanted requests, there are four options: 1) deny the request, 2) leave the request open, so you won't receive a new notification, 3) disable collaborations, or 4) reach out to customer support.

For team members

Join a project

Welcome aboard! You just received a collaboration code, but now what? Open your home screen and tap on the button with a person and a plus sign. Now, a new screen will appear on which you can enter your code. After submitting your request, the admin must approve it before you gain access to the project. If they accept your request, the project will appear automatically on your homescreen.

Leave a project

If you wish to leave a project, you can always visit the collaboration page of that project. At the bottom, there is a 'Leave project' button. You cannot leave a project as an admin. Once you have left a project, you will lose access to it, and you will need to send another collaboration request to the admin.