feature: Stable links (URLs) to shared designs

[garrett]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When sharing to others and then editing the files, moving boards around between pages, and so on, the links I previously shared all break.

This makes it impossible to share either a page (as often the complete view of a page is what I want to share) or a board (as the links can change) in issue trackers. (Sadly, for this particular team and project, we're using Jira instead of Taiga.)

Describe the solution you'd like.

I'd like a link to persist. It's fine if it redirects, as long as it gets resolved to the proper location. I'd like to be able to move a board across pages and have the previously shared URLs still work somehow.

I'd like to be able to link to a board for an individual piece of the design or to a complete page as an overview (which may have multiple boards and often text outside of the board with notes).

It would be extra wonderful if the link would be human-friendly too, and not just a hash. That is, if we could have links with board and page names (where applicable), then that'd be lovely. Unfortunately, of course, names can chance so that'd break the link. (I guess it could have a unique ID and a friendly name in the URL so people know what it is by looking at the URL and the link won't break?)

Describe alternatives you've considered.

Instead of just linking (which we have tried), I have to export PNGs and constantly update the PNGs, which can get stale and requires more back and forth work.

The problem is: Nobody knows if something is an old mockup or a new one without asking me specifically. When they don't ask, they sometimes even implement some very old preliminary design. This happens more often than we'd like, as I'm the only design on my team and I have time off or holidays from time to time while the rest of the team continues to work.

Additional context

As always: Thanks! Penpot is great! 👍

[madalenapmelo-kp]

Hi @garrett,

I've created an enhancement in our backlog so that we can look further into this, you can find the details here: https://tree.taiga.io/project/penpot/issue/7801

[garrett]

🎉 Thanks for adding it! Looking forward to it.