Adding sync pages to your Coda doc allows for more versatility, customization, and convenience. Sync pages break down knowledge silos by allowing you to multi-home the content your team uses most in the docs they live in. This means your team won’t have to open another tab to see that brief or status report from another doc, as they can view and even interact with it right in your doc. Sync pages also allow you to share individual pages with the right people, without giving them access to the entire doc.

You can create a new sync page by linking to a page in another Coda doc, or picking one from the Browse docs tab. For instance, your team might work out of one doc in Coda but consistently need to reference context from a page in another doc shared by your collaborators. Adding it as a sync page can give your team all the context they need to complete a workflow from start to finish, without constant tab and context switching.

To get started with adding a sync page to your doc, just follow these steps:

By default, your new sync page will be accessible only to people who already have access to the source doc. If you’d like to change this, check out the section below to learn how.

In addition to syncing single pages or pages with subpages, you can also use this feature to sync entire docs.

To sync full docs, follow the steps in the section above through step #3. Once you've browsed for and selected the doc you'd like to sync in, you should see an Entire doc toggle near the title of your selected doc. Toggle this option on, then hit Create.

Now that entire doc will be synced into your current doc. The doc will appear as a top-level page in your page list, with all of its pages nested underneath.

By default, this new sync doc will be accessible only to people who already have access to the source doc. If you’d like to grant everyone access to this sync doc, we recommend you share the source doc with them directly.

It’s important to understand how page access works when syncing pages from one doc to another - especially if people have different types of access to the two docs.

When you add a sync page from one Coda doc (we’ll call the “source doc”) into another doc (we’ll call the “container doc”), you can choose between two types of access to this sync page:

You can change the access option for sync pages at any time. To do so, just follow these steps:

That’s it - access to the sync page should be updated right away.

Want to keep tabs on whether any pages from your doc are being synced out to other docs? No problem. You can do this by clicking on Share in the upper right corner of your doc. If any pages have been synced out of this doc, you will see an alert that “Some pages are synced in other docs.” To learn more, click on Manage to the right of this alert.

This will open a menu on the right that shows you all docs that have sync pages from your current doc. You can use the This page and All pages tabs to learn more about which pages have been synced out. You can hover over any doc you see listed here, and this will reveal details about who created the sync pages and when they were created.

If you’d like to remove sync page access from any of the docs you see here, simply use the Remove access button.