Live Co-editing
When two people open the same draft, they both see each other’s changes as they happen. Nobody has to wait their turn, take a copy, or ask whether it is safe to start typing.
Co-editing is available on Scale and Enterprise plans.
What is shared
Everything in the article body, and every rich-text field on your CMS form. Type a paragraph and it appears on your teammate’s screen a moment later.
Each person editing gets their own colour. You will see:
- Their cursor, labelled with their name, wherever they are working
- Their avatar, in the top right of the editor, next to the publish button
Click an avatar to jump straight to what that person is looking at.
Fields outside the body, like the slug, the meta description or a plain text CMS field, save the normal way. If two people change the same one, Asky tells you and reloads the latest version rather than quietly picking a winner.
Who can join
Anyone in your workspace who can open the draft. There is nothing to switch on and no invitation to send.
One thing to know if you publish to a CMS: a session is built around the specific set of fields in your collection or document type. If a teammate has not connected that CMS themselves, they cannot join the same session, so the body and rich-text fields go read-only for them and a banner explains why. They still see the changes arrive live. Connecting the CMS on the Connections page lets them join properly.
If co-editing is unavailable
It degrades quietly and safely. If the co-editing service cannot be reached, the editor falls back to the normal single-user editor and keeps auto-saving exactly as it always has. You will see a short “Live collaboration unavailable” message, and nothing is lost.
If your connection drops mid-session, the editor stays open and shows Reconnecting. Your changes are held locally and sync as soon as you are back.
Occasionally the editor reloads the document by itself, usually because something changed the draft outside your session, such as a translation finishing or a collection being switched. That is deliberate: it makes sure everyone is working from the same copy rather than two versions quietly drifting apart.
Turning it off for a workspace
If you would rather your team did not use co-editing, contact support and we can disable it for your workspace. The editor then behaves exactly as it did before, with no other change.