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Sharing with friends

From the Sharing with friends row on the home screen you create a SHARE code or join a friend's: you see each other on the map, with the tracks, the attachments and the group's SOS alerts.

Account and SHARE code

Common requirements for creator and participant: registered account, linked device, dedicated code, QR and session dates.

SHARE code / QR: The SHARE code is entered only in Position sharing. If it starts in the future, it is accepted immediately but tracking and files activate at the start date.
Load share: Checks the code, saves the settings and prepares dates, attachments and tracking: then you see your friends on the map.
Start: The code can be loaded earlier, but tracking, attachments and the friends' map start only from the start date.
Tracking end: Tracking end stops position sending, live and SOS. If data deletion is later, the map can remain viewable as history.
Data deletion: Data deletion decides how long QR, copied files and map history remain available. After that date the share is removed.

Position sharing creator

Features available to the code creator: dates, optional attachments, QR, revocation and participant monitoring.

Attach files: Selects RoadBook and GPX already in the Cloud space: RoadBook PRO packages are not shared. Whoever joins finds the attachments in Position sharing.
Delete cloud file: In the Choose cloud files selector, Delete from cloud removes a file you no longer need before you confirm the attachments.
Generate code / QR: Creates the short code and the QR to send to the participants; the maximum number is the one of your account. With Update code / QR you change dates and attachments and keep the same code.
End share: End share asks you to type the code and then deletes it for everyone: files, participants, tracking and friends from the live panels of the map.

SHARE participant

Features available to whoever receives the code: joining, map, attached files, tracking and voluntary exit.

Sharing attachments: PDF: Open RoadBook, or Convert to PRO, which is unlimited with the ODOCAP subscription and during the trial uses one of the included conversions, then opens with Open RoadBook PRO. GPX: Open in Maps / GPX.
Event + friends: You can be in an event and in a share at the same time, if the organiser has not switched off sharing for their event: on the map you see only your friends, and the organisers see you on their own map.
Leave share: You leave without closing the code for the others: only local files and tracking are deleted. Whoever only watches leaves from the other device of their account.

Map and SOS

On the map: friends online, tracks, group SOS, replies, navigation and history until deletion.

Online devices: Opens the panel with only the participants of the share and the distance from this device, with Refresh, See all on the map and Show tracks.
Rider tracks: During the share each rider leaves a visible, persistent track on the map, even after leaving and coming back; in Online devices, Show tracks and Hide tracks switch them on and off.
Group SOS: Shows only share SOS requests: the friends group sees them, not the event organization.
Reply: Adds a reply to an open SOS without leaving the map.
Resolved: Marks an SOS as resolved and removes the participant's red state.
Navigate: Opens navigation to the SOS position or, if missing, to the participant's last live position.
History until deletion: If data deletion is after the tracking end, the map remains viewable without SOS until deletion or revocation.

Remember

Position sharing opens from the Sharing with friends row on the home screen, not from Tracking.
You need an ODOCAP account with this device in Linked devices. To create a SHARE code it must be included in your account; to join with a code you received, it does not.
The SHARE code is used only in Position sharing, not in Events.
If the share starts in the future, the code is accepted immediately and tracking/files start at the start date.
You can have only one active share: the creator must end it and the participant must leave it before creating or loading another one.
On the map, with an active share, you see only your friends and their tracks; if you are also in an event, the organisers keep seeing you on their map.
If you participate in an event and a share at the same time, SOS asks whether to send it to Friends or Organization.
After the tracking end the SOS is disabled; if the data deletion is later, the history on the map stays viewable until the deletion or the revocation.
The second device of the same account normally only watches: it sees friends and tracks, and friends' SOS alerts arrive only while ODOCAP is open on screen. On iPhone, with the app in the background or the screen locked, they do not arrive.

If something does not work

If Account and device required appears, create or sign in to an ODOCAP account and link this device under Linked devices.
If you read Feature not included while creating a code, SHARE is not in your account: you can still join your friends' shares with their code.
If you see no files in Choose cloud files, first move RoadBook or GPX to the Cloud space with Move to Cloud. Without a subscription the subscription offer appears: the cloud space is not included.
If Convert to PRO is unavailable, check the account, linked device, ODOCAP subscription or remaining included conversions, and data connection.
If the code is full, the app shows Participant limit reached and does not set up tracking.
If a scheduled share is not sending positions yet, check the start date: until then it waits.
If Position sharing asks for access, sign in to your ODOCAP Account again and reopen it from the home screen.
If SOS notifications do not arrive, check notification permission and the device urgent channel.
If a participant does not appear online, check Always allow, Battery unrestricted and data network.
If the map shows the share but the SOS does not go out, check whether the tracking end has already passed.
If a share disappears, check data deletion or revocation by the creator.
If you read Event in progress in Position sharing, the event organiser has switched off sharing with friends: it is available again when the event is over.