Permission issues - can't open file via URL handle

[kcase]

Thanks for bringing this up! We’ll be solving this problem this year with Document Links. From the roadmap:

@kcase

Document Links

Over the past decade, one of the interesting problems that we’ve been pondering is how best to link to documents in native apps. We were one of the initial signers of the Linking Manifesto: we know how important it is to easily link to things, and we’ve long supported links within all our apps. As noted above, teams would like to easily link to an OmniGraffle document. But document links can be fragile, and this isn’t just an OmniGraffle problem; it’s a general problem that applies to linking to any documents. Documents already do have a URL that the system uses—the file URL—but those URLs are often only useful within the local system. As documents have become protected by app sandboxing over the past 15 years, even those local URLs have become less useful.

What we need is a way to link to content that works across all our apps, across all our devices, and that can ideally be shared with a team.

These links shouldn’t depend on, or require, any specific syncing solution. You should be able to use it with any of your own documents, whether they’re synced through iCloud, DropBox, or Google Drive. You should also be able to use it with whatever solution your team is already using to sync documents, whether that’s Box or git or even ftp. You shouldn’t have to share your documents differently, or have to put them somewhere different; you should be able to link to them where they are. Individuals and teams have already solved the problem of syncing shared documents; what has been missing is a simple way to reference them.

So we’re building just that. In our latest OmniGraffle 8 test builds, you can now copy a link to the current document and get a URL that you can paste into any app, or share with any team member. This link can be opened on any device: if the device doesn’t already know how to find the document, OmniGraffle will prompt and ask where to find a synced copy.