Open local file online and vice versa

[pcampbell-avodaq]

Just a question / idea:

If I have a local file open in the draw.io app, is there an (one-click) option to open it on https://app.diagrams.net/?

If not, could this be a potentially useful feature?

It could also work in the other direction, launching the app from https://app.diagrams.net/

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Summary: User is asking if there's a one-click way to transfer files between the draw.io desktop app and the web version at app.diagrams.net, and suggests this as a potential feature if it doesn't exist.

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🔍 Possible Related Issues

This issue might be related to existing issues:

🔴 #1898 - Open local or remote diagram directly with URL
Directly related to opening diagrams across different platforms/locations, which is the core of what the user is asking about

Please check if any of these address your issue. If this is a duplicate, we may close this issue and continue the conversation there.

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• Are you looking for a way to sync files between the desktop app and web version, or just a one-time transfer method?
• What would be your preferred workflow - saving to cloud storage that both versions can access, or some kind of direct transfer mechanism?
• Have you considered using cloud storage integrations (Google Drive, OneDrive, etc.) that are available in both the desktop app and web version?

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[pcampbell-avodaq]

• Neither sync nor transfer.
• N/A
• The problem I encounter with cloud storage e.g. OneDrive is that finding a file in a corporate SharePoint by browsing is almost impossible. The files I need I have already synced locally on to the hard disk and can find them more easily using other tools than a file browser.

I guess what I'm thinking of is similar to the Word Online feature - open a word file in the browser and you have the option to open it in the desktop app for further editing. Only in this case, it would be bidirectional in the sense that I can go browser->app or app->browser.

And let me say a little more about the use case: I was in a customer meeting and screen-sharing just my browser. During the meeting I would have liked to have shared a drawio file which I have locally-synced from OneDrive. I didn't want to interrupt the screen sharing (which was limited to the browser) in order to share the entire screen or a new app (drawio) so I was looking for a way to go from the app -> browser in one click, then I could have easily switched to that tab without fiddling around with the screen sharing options during the call. Switching the app.diagrams.net and browsing to the file would have been too fiddly

[davidjgraph]

It's certainly a valid use case, however, our target audience with the desktop app are the security/privacy obsessed crowd. Having a 1-click to load the diagram in web page would be seen as going against the design pattern and we'd certainly get complaints from existing large users to remove it.