Apple’s Pages, Numbers and Keynote apps for macOS and iOS allow you to collaborate. You can invite others to your documents and work on them together in real time. You can use iWork collaboration on these devices:. A Mac with macOS Sierra and Pages 6.0, Numbers 4.0, or Keynote 7.0 or later;. An iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 10 and Pages 3.0, Numbers 3.0, or Keynote 3.0 or later;. A Mac with Safari 6.0.3 or later, or Google Chrome 27.0.1 or later;. A Windows PC with Internet Explorer 11 or later, or Google Chrome 27.0.1 or later.

To invite others to collaborate you must be signed in to iCloud on your device and have iCloud Drive turned on. If you’re using a web browser, sign in to iCloud.com and open the iWork app you want to use. If you have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with earlier versions of iOS or iWork apps, or if you have an Android device, you can view documents but can’t edit them. When you invite people to collaborate on a document, spreadsheet, or presentation, the app creates an iCloud.com link for you to send to them. If you limit access so that only people you invite can collaborate on your document, they must sign in to iCloud or iCloud.com with their Apple ID. The name of the document is included in the URL. If the title or content of the document is confidential, make sure to ask participants not to forward the link to anyone else.

Here’s how to i nvite other folks from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch: if your document is already open in Pages, Numbers, or Keynote, tap the three dot icon, then tap Collaborate With Others. If you're in the Document Manager, tap the share icon, then tap Collaborate With Others. Tap the document you want to share. If the document you select hasn't downloaded to your device, it downloads now.

Here’s how to invite other people from your Mac. From Pages, Numbers, or Keynote, open the document you want to share. In the toolbar, click the share icon — a head with a checkmark by it. By default, people that you invite can edit your document.

You can change share options and limit who can access it. If you set Who Can Access to 'Anyone with the link', and you want to add a password, tap Add Password. Type your password and hint. You and other participants need this password to open the document.

Tap Add People to, well, add people. Tap your preferred method for sending the link. If you choose to email your invitation, type an email address or phone number for each person you want to invite.

Add any other information, then send or post the message. The share icon — a head with a checkmark by it — indicates that a document is shared. The checkmark changes to show how many people have the document open (not including you). Here's how to invite other people from.

If your document is already open in Pages, Numbers, or Keynote for iCloud, click the share icon in the toolbar. If you're in the Document Manager, select a document, then click the icon that looks like a gear. Choose Collaborate With Others.

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We really like the way how document collaboration works in Google Drive and would love to have an option to integrate such functionality into our environment. Our setup consists of 5 clients (all Macs of different kinds, iMac, MacBook Pro) and a Mac Mini which functions as server (OSX Server). All machines run OSX Mavericks.

We are always struggling how to work together on documents which are also saved at the same time in their respective folders on our server. Most of the time our users just mail the documents around which of course isn't efficient at all. Since we couldn't find a good collaboration software to use, some kind of document-lock would be another option that there will be no lost work. Any thoughts? Thanks up front. Common Application: Documentation, Spreadsheet, presentation and so on. Google Apps(Google Docs, Spreadsheet, Calendar, Mail, Slide and so on).

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Top page:. Google product forums: Other common Application: Flow chart, Business Process, Floor plan, Org chart, Mock, UML and so on. lucidchart Development Code repository and so on. GitHub with google Drive(Might be worked but not final answer) Business Application and others: You can find more suitable application such Accounting and project management application at Local Vendor: You might want to contact local vender to get help at Printing: You can print your Google Docs out to your office printer via internet using Google Cloud printer after you make gmail account for it. Please check at And, Even it's legacy printer it's possible to implement. Please refer at Security: Account authentication: You can keep Google account more secure with Google Authenticator which provide you to have one time password(passcode) with your current password. And you can use it for GitHub authentication also.

So, You can keep your account authentication securely. The solution is called Multi Factor Authentication(MFA or 2FA). Google Authenticator at GitHub with Google Authenticator at Transmission: SSL/TLS More about security stuff of Google Apps at But if you want to implement data encryption of Google Drive, You must find application at.

Other(Network): Your dedicated network goes to internet will be one of most important part to collaborate your work among your member or your customer. So, You must keep maintaining the stability of network by backing the configuration up of router/firewall before you configured and updating the firmware. If you use wireless LAN in your office, you should use WPA2-PSK-AES with unique SSID, unique key, passcode these are not related to your personal information and company information. Also, You should not use default setting of Wi-Fi device. And, You should document about the necessary settings and contact point of support center to get work smoothly when there is an incident such failure of network.

These should be kept securely. If you are not going to manage them by yourself, You should get support from local vendor. This is just security essential matter. Recovery plan:.

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Setup your Smartphone for your dedicated Network and do excise synchronizing the data between Google Drive in case mis-synchronization operation happen. Out of scope:. Setup synchronizing the data between Google Drive at Google and shared drive on such OS X server is not necessary because these data will be kept on your local drive therefore it will be synchronized after the issue is fixed. But if you want to synchronize the data between Google Drive at Google and OS X server, you just make one more account for the server like you create your google account on your mac. But, It might cost from operational view point.

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If you could tell us what kind of business application use, what kind of business function about your org or business model about your office. Someone will be able to provide more suitable information.