# Teams and sharing # Teams and sharing Teams let several people reuse the same patterns. Sharing by link lets you hand a single pattern or report to anyone. ## Sharing a pattern with a link In **My patterns**, open a saved pattern and choose share. You get a link to the public viewer, where anyone with the link can see the pattern, its shape and who created it. Turn sharing off and the link stops working. ## Sharing a search report Every completed search produces a report that collects each coin's best match. Open the report and share it as a link — useful when you want a colleague to see exactly what you saw, without giving them your account. ## Teams A team is a shared space for patterns: - **Create a team** and invite people by username. - **Share a pattern to a team** — this makes a team-owned copy, so later edits to your personal pattern do not change what the team sees. - **Roles** decide what a member can do: viewer (use), editor (add and change patterns), co-owner (also manage members and settings), owner (full control, including deletion). - **Transfer ownership** from the members list if someone else should own the team. When a search runs on a team pattern, every member of that team is told about it, so nobody misses a result that concerns them. ## Invites Inviting someone sends them an email with a link to join. If they already have an account they join directly; if not, they are asked to register first. Invites can be revoked while they are pending. ## Etiquette and limits Team sharing is for people who actually work together — see the [Acceptable Use Policy](/docs/acceptable-use-policy). Do not use a team to publish patterns publicly, and keep other people's confidential information out of pattern names and messages.