Share a floorplan on a page of its own

A saved floorplan can now be shared as a page of its own, with a link you can put on a listing, in an email, behind a QR code, or in a frame on your own site.

Who can open it

Every plan starts as a Draft, which means your team only and no public page at all. From the Sharing tab you can move it to Private, which puts a passcode in front of it, or Public, which opens it to anyone with the link. Search engines are kept off the floorplan site either way.

A passcode is six characters minimum and there is a button that generates one for you. Generated passcodes leave out the letter O, the digit zero, capital I, the digit one and lowercase L, because a passcode gets read down a phone more often than it gets pasted. Changing a passcode locks out everybody who already opened the plan with the old one.

Finding out who is interested

A public plan can ask for a name and an email before it opens, with a sentence of your own above it. The plan opens as soon as the form is filled in, and the person becomes a lead with a note saying which floorplan they opened. This is a way to find out who is interested rather than a way to keep anybody out. A private plan never shows the form as well, since somebody who typed the passcode has already proved they were invited.

Comments, embedding and the visitor list

• Comments come to you and nobody else by default, and a reader can pin one to a particular room. If you switch them to showing on the page, nothing appears until you have read and approved it.
• Embedding gives you a snippet in one of three sizes, and the embedded plan stays live, so an edit shows up there without anybody touching the website. A private plan and a plan with a form in front of it link out to their own page instead.
• Who has opened it lists recent visits. A form visit shows a name and email; a passcode visit has no name attached, because nobody was asked for one, so it is a count rather than a visitor list.

Sharing serves the plan as it is stored, so an edit to a shared plan is live as soon as you save it. Moving a plan back to Draft takes the page down, and the link stops working rather than showing an older version.