As a designer in an IT department which is part of a large organisation, the one day limit to open sessions is too restrictive for working with ordinary users who may only need to join a workshop occasionally.
The duration of the Open Session should be configurable (both edit and view) by the Editor in Professional and Enterprise Licences.
Thanks for the feedback, @Fintan_Kennedy!
We’ll pass this along to the team for consideration and gauge overall interest within the community through the votes.
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I use the open session functionality frequently in FigJam. But the limitation that I can only offer 24-hours editing at a time is an inconvenience and prevents collaboration opportunities more than one day before. While I don’t mind if Figma has a limit of some sort, I’d like to set my own open session window - even 36 or 48 hours would be a big improvement.
Open sessions system sucks, Miro can be fully open and ti’s a real game changer… I really think about changing for Miro
I have to second this strongly - there MUST be a smarter way to provide this … meaning a “permanent open session” (or at least a couple of days) …
I would even pay a additional subscription for this, even on a FigJam board level to make it possible …
It is really hard to start to discuss with clients, about why not use something else, with the opportunity to permanent share … by the way: to ask clients to create user in a yet another online tool (thei perspective), means that I have to avoid to use FigJam in some projects. I am sad.
Fully agree. We will switch to another tool because of this. The 24h limit is a deal-breaker as we need to share within the organization and outside and we cannot expect everyone to have a FigJam license.
Same here. The one day limit is too restrictive. People need to be able to collaborate before and after.
We will probably switch to Miro in the meantime.
Ugh… yes this is a problem. The limit stifles collaboration which is in the very spirit of the tool. I may need to switch to Miro because of this.
We actually did switch to Miro in the end for this.
I wanted my collaborators to help me prepare for a session and help me moderate it. the 24h limit doesnt help. We have migrated to Miro, which is a shame as we had all our previous materials in Figma. You guys are becoming too restrictive.
Any news on this since last year? Is it in roadmap to let the user choose the Open Session duration?
Permanent open sessions would be a huge plus in order to convince skeptical colleagues to use FigJam. Especially when a FigJam board is integrated in a Confluence page.
I’m just now discovering this limitation. I need to make sure customers are able to access the board, meaning that their security protocols will permit them to get to FigJam as well as making sure they can at least drop a post it note. I absolutely cannot mandate that my customers complete their test within 24 hours. I need to give them a realistic few days to get it done. I guess this may be the deal breaker for me, meaning I will need to now go use Miro or Mural if they have longer open session times.
Fully agree! I need to be able to leave sessions open for longer periods of time and would like to use Fig Boards in my courses that I teach and for meetings that I facilitate.
I use FigJam to tutor high school and college students. Open session often doesn’t work and the clients have to create an account which is a huge drag. Even when it does work it is annoying because the students often want to drop work in the FigJam before the session so I know waht they are going to ask about.