---
title: "Share a link to the page you are on"
description: "Copy a link to the page a Portal or Build Mode shows, so an engineer sees the current app for 7 days without an account."
url: https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/48-share-a-link-to-the-page-you-are-on
collection: "Share and review"
updated: 2026-10-29
language: en
---

# Share a link to the page you are on

Copy a link to the page a Portal or Build Mode shows, so an engineer sees the current app for 7 days without an account.

A page link opens the page you are looking at, in the app as it runs on this canvas right now, for anyone who has the link. No Modeinspect account is needed. Use it to show an engineer the exact page before you ask for a change, or right after the agent made one.

**Before you start**

-   A canvas with a Portal whose app has started, see [Add a Portal to the canvas](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/31-add-a-portal.md).
    

## Steps

In Build Mode:

1.  Go to the page you want to share, see [Open Build Mode and move around your app](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/29-open-and-navigate-build-mode.md).
    
2.  Click the link icon at the left end of the address bar, **Copy link to this page**. The toast reads "Page link copied", or "Link copied" when you are on the app's start page.
    
    ![The Build Mode address bar with the Copy link to this page button highlighted at its left end](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/p6a1872808f187689a3937fa3/DJ5cm9fIspqM5i5BXpK93sT83a9iar1bySPxMFlkqDaY6tWBKwxTuYrWe6MFUHjQWFAJJFSLWR0.png)
    
    The same button sits in the address bar of the preview window that **Open preview** opens over the canvas.
    

On the canvas:

1.  Select the Portal. The design panel shows **Preview link** with the path of the page the Portal is on, `/` for the start page.
    
2.  Click **Copy** on that row. The toast reads "Link copied".
    
    ![The design panel of a selected Portal with the Preview link row and its Copy button highlighted](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/p6a1872808f187689a3937fa3/Km3X7dWKuoYpk2vHzSefzT8N2pWXLHDf4YYf3Ri4ZsHhWQS4Ahhx2tBjedE9byHSZnKCY0h1lnj.png)

Paste the link into your chat or ticket. The engineer opens it in their browser without signing in and lands on the page you were on. From there they can click through the rest of the app.

> **Warning:** A page link cannot be revoked. Anyone who has it can open the app on this canvas until the link expires, 7 days after you copied it. Each copy is a new link with its own 7 days, and copying again does not cut the older ones short.

The page behind the link is live. What the engineer sees is the app at the moment they open it, with every change the agent has built on this canvas by then. For a copy that stays as it is, use a preview link, see [Create a preview link](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/45-create-a-preview-link.md).

## If it does not work

-   **The link icon is greyed out and its tooltip reads "Preview links are disabled for this organization."**: your organization has preview links turned off. Contact support to have them turned on.
    
-   **The toast reads "Couldn't create the link. Try again."**: the link could not be made. Click the button again.
    
-   **The engineer sees a blank page that says "Unauthorized"**: the link is older than 7 days, or it was pasted without the long part after `preview_token=`. Copy a new one and send the whole address.
    

## Related

-   [Create a preview link](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/45-create-a-preview-link.md)
    
-   [Open Build Mode and move around your app](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/29-open-and-navigate-build-mode.md)
    
-   [What is a Portal](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/43-what-is-a-portal.md)

## Related

- [See the code the agent changed](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/49-see-the-code-the-agent-changed.md)
- [Create a pull request](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/46-create-a-pull-request.md)
- [How changes reach your pull request](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/47-how-changes-reach-your-pull-request.md)
- [Keep working after your pull request is merged](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/44-keep-working-after-your-pull-request-is-merged.md)
- [Create a preview link](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/45-create-a-preview-link.md)