Sharing Playbooks

A playbook is only as good as the number of players who’ve studied it. UltiStackr lets you add individual collaborators, publish a team playbook to its team, share a token link, or publish personal work to the broader Ultimate community.

Choose the Audience

Every playbook has an audience that controls who can discover and open it. Personal and team playbooks use the shared audience model described in Shared Content.

For playbooks specifically:

• Team playbooks cannot be Public. Copy one to your personal library before publishing the copy to Discover.
• Team plays are Draft or Published and reach outside readers through an Unlisted playbook. Draft plays are omitted from that link.
• Audience changes control who can view a playbook; they do not grant edit access.

To change the audience:

1. Open the playbook
2. Open Share
3. Choose the audience you want

Sharing with Specific Users

You can share a playbook directly with individual UltiStackr users and assign them a specific access level.

How to Share

1. Open the playbook
2. Go to Settings (gear icon) or click the Share button
3. Enter the user’s email address or UltiStackr username
4. Choose their access role:
   • Viewer — Can view and play back all plays, but cannot edit anything
   • Editor — Can view, edit, add, and remove plays within the playbook
5. Click Share

The user will receive a notification and the playbook will appear in their playbook list.

Managing Shared Users

From the playbook settings, you can:

• See a list of all users the playbook is shared with
• Change a user’s role (Viewer to Editor, or vice versa)
• Remove a user’s access entirely

Generating Share Links

For quick sharing outside of UltiStackr’s user system, choose an audience that carries a link. See Create a Shared Link for the complete link lifecycle and revoke behavior.

Creating a Share Link

1. Open the playbook
2. Click the Share button
3. Choose Unlisted or Public. Team playbooks offer Unlisted only.
4. Select Create link if needed, then Copy

Share this link via text, email, team chat, or another channel. Anyone who opens it can view the included Published plays in read-only mode without an UltiStackr account.

Embedding a Play

If a personal play and its containing personal playbook are set to Public, you can embed the animated viewer directly on a website or blog — no UltiStackr account required for visitors to watch it.

Getting the Embed Code

1. Open the play and make sure it and its containing playbook are set to Public.
2. Click the Share button.
3. Scroll to the Embed section.
4. Click Copy embed code.

The embed code is a standard <iframe> pointing at the play’s embed URL, sized for an 800×600 frame:

<iframe
  src="https://app.ultistackr.com/embed/play/{playId}"
  width="800"
  height="600"
  allowfullscreen
></iframe>

Paste this snippet into your website, blog post, or coaching article. Wrap it in a padded container if you want the player to resize responsively.

What Visitors See

Anyone who opens the embed sees a stripped-down viewer — just the play animation and its playback controls, with no UltiStackr navigation or menus around it. The shared/embed layout also reserves space for the viewer controls and branch UI more carefully now, so the field stays usable on tighter screens. If the play or its playbook is later set to a non-Public audience (or deleted), the embed shows “This play is not available” instead of any play data.

Viewing Shared Playbooks

When someone shares a playbook with you (or you open a share link), you’ll see the playbook in read-only mode unless you’ve been granted Editor access.

Read-Only Mode

In read-only mode, you can:

• Browse all plays in the playbook
• Open any play in the Play Designer (view mode)
• Use all playback controls — play, pause, step through, slow-play
• View all trails, annotations, and branches
• Read coach notes and step descriptions without the viewer pushing key controls off-screen as easily
• Study the play at your own pace

You cannot in read-only mode:

• Move player tokens
• Add, edit, or delete steps
• Modify annotations or trails
• Change playbook settings or sharing

Duplicating a Shared Playbook

If you want to modify a playbook that’s been shared with you as Viewer, you can duplicate it into your own collection:

1. Open the shared playbook
2. Click the More menu (three dots)
3. Select Duplicate Playbook
4. The copy appears in your personal playbooks with full edit access

The duplicate is completely independent — changes to the original won’t affect your copy, and vice versa.

Sharing Summary

Sharing Beyond Playbooks

The same audience and token-link model covers plays, drills, practice plans, and season plan templates. Shared Content is the canonical guide to which audiences each workspace supports and what happens when a link is regenerated or revoked.

What’s Next

• Managing Playbooks — Lock plays, control visibility, and manage your playbook collection
• Creating a Playbook — Set up a new playbook to share