Accept a shared document

When a colleague shares a single document with you — a floor plan, a spreadsheet or a presentation — you receive a personal link by email. The link gives you access to exactly that one file with the role the sender chose, without making you a member of the entire team. Here's the full flow from link to opened document.

1Click the share link from your email

Open the email with the share and click the link. It takes you to the You're invited page, where Arcili first validates the link. While that happens, you see Validating invitation….

Once the link is valid, the page shows a card with the file itself:

At the top you see who shared the file and what type it is, e.g. [sender] has shared a document with you. The file type appears as Document, Spreadsheet or Presentation depending on what was shared.

2Log in or create an account

What you do next depends on whether you're already logged in.

You're not logged in

Below the file card it says Log in with [your email address] to accept. Click Log in. You're sent to the login page and returned automatically to the share page once you've logged in.

You're logged in with the right account

When your account matches the invited email, the Accept and open button appears directly. Continue to step 3.

3Wrong account — log out and try again

If you're logged in with a different email than the one the share was sent to, the page shows a warning:

Click Log out, then log in with the email the share was sent to and open the link again.

4Accept and open the document

Click Accept and open. The button briefly changes to Accepting…, and Arcili confirms with the message You've been granted access as [role].

You're then sent straight to the document itself — not to the team's full workspace. A shared document only grants access to that one file.

Next steps

• Accept an invitation to a team
• Log in to Arcili for the first time
• Slide sharing and collaboration