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Delete sticky note when author still writing

  • November 25, 2020
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The other day a session was ruined because someone left a gigantic sticky note unfinished covering everything and nobody was able to delete it. Any idea how to address this problem?

Best answer by Robert Johnson

@Toni - There are few tricks to remove this lock:

  1. If you have a paid plan, you could “bring that person to you” which should yank them again from it; or
  2. If this person was a guest editor,
    1. change the Anyone with the link from Edit to View and then back to Edit otherwise
    2. if they were a team member change or Anyone at [TEAM NAME] can Edit to View and back to Edit.

Here is option 2.1 in action:

 

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  • November 25, 2020

@Toni - There are few tricks to remove this lock:

  1. If you have a paid plan, you could “bring that person to you” which should yank them again from it; or
  2. If this person was a guest editor,
    1. change the Anyone with the link from Edit to View and then back to Edit otherwise
    2. if they were a team member change or Anyone at [TEAM NAME] can Edit to View and back to Edit.

Here is option 2.1 in action: