Online Collaboration in EdrawMind
How to Collaborate?
EdrawMind Online supports multi-user collaboration in real-time. You can share an individual file and collaborate with others. Also, you can create a group to manage the shared files. With this new feature, a user can share and work remotely on their mind maps with team members and improve work efficiency.
Step One: Open a file and click the on the menu bar.
![EdrawMind file collaboration](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/mindmaster/mindmaster-file-collaboration.png)
![EdrawMind online collaboration](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/mindmaster/mindmaster-online-collaboration.png)
Step Two: Set permission for your collaborators and create invitation links.
![EdrawMind collaboration link](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/mindmaster/mindmaster-collaboration-link.png)
Reader: Mind map reading permission only.
Editor: Mind map reading and editing permission.
Manager: Read and edit the mind map, and can assign and change permission for other members.
Owner: Can edit, manage and stop the online collaboration.
Step Three: Group members click the link to open the mind map. The UI varies from the roles.
UI for Editor and Manager
![EdrawMind online collaboration](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/mindmaster/mindmaster-online-collaboration.png)
UI for Reader
![EdrawMind read collaboration](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/mindmaster/mindmaster-read-collaboration.png)
How to Add and Manage Your Team Members?
If you purchase 5* lifetime subscription plans with your email account, how do you distribute it to your team members?
Step One: Click your profile picture and choose "Enterprise Management".
![EdrawMind enterprise management](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/mindmaster/mindmaster-online-enterprise.png)
Step Two: In Corporate Management panel, choose "Members" and click "Add New Member".
![EdrawMind add new members](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/mindmaster/mindmaster-add-members.png)
You can add team members by entering their user IDs.
![EdrawMind add new members](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/mindmaster/mindmaster-add-userid.png)
And you can also share an invitation link to invite them to join your team. The link is valid for 60 minutes after generating.
![EdrawMind add new members](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/mindmaster/mindmaster-user-invitation-link.png)
Step Three: In Corporate Management panel, you can edit the company/team name.
![EdrawMind add new members](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/mindmaster/mindmaster-company-setting.png)
How to Use My Group?
Step One: In My Group, click +New group to create a new group.
![EdrawMind read collaboration](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/mindmaster/mindmaster-group-collaboration.png)
Step Two: In your group, click "Create file" to create a new mind map; or click "Import file" to import a mind map from your Personal Cloud.
![EdrawMind group files](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/mindmaster/mindmaster-group-files.png)
Step Three: To add group members: share the invitation link to your team members. And they can click the link to join your group.
![EdrawMind group invite link](https://images.edrawsoft.com/images2019/guide/mindmaster/mindmaster-group-link.png)
Group owner can assign member as a reader, editor, manager and can remove them from the group.