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Hi everyone,

I’m a product designer at Bluebeam and just wanted to jump in here again since this is one of our most up-voted posts. Thank you all for sharing your feedback about editing/unlocking markups in Studio Sessions. We hear you, and we know this would make collaboration much easier for a lot of teams.

Please know that this isn’t being ignored — it’s a pretty tricky challenge to solve because of how Sessions are built technically, but we’re actively researching and exploring solutions. I don’t have an update to share yet, but please know it’s on our radar and part of ongoing conversations.

Thanks for continuing to share your experiences — it really helps us prioritize what matters most to you.

I'm so glad this is being discussed, and hopefully considered by the Bluebeam development team. It would be incredibly value to have a feature where markup editing can be enabled for individual participants or for the whole group. This would be helpful for internal documents and reviews, and internal/external collaborative work sessions. There could be a popup when you sign into a session where this is enabled, and you would have to click to acknowledge that all comments are subject to editing. Or, like a previous person suggested, it could be an entirely different type of session for Collaboration (which has a whole world of other possibilities for new features). We would wind up using something like that daily in our office!

Suggest adding a feature whereby a user can change the permissions on a document by document basis. I may want one team member to markup one document but only view another document.

Or, I may want to keep a document in the session even though the markup period for that document is closed so I would like to lock that single document from all markups but keep viewing available for all team members.

It would be extremely helpful to have the ability to add, remove, or replace pages within a Bluebeam Studio Session. When working with multiple iterations of a drawing set, maintaining all comments and markups within the same session is critical for continuity.

Currently, my workaround involves saving the session with markups, updating the pages outside the session, and then starting a new session. However, this results in all comments being attributed to me, and they can no longer be edited or deleted by the original authors.

Another feature that would greatly improve workflow is allowing all participants in a Studio Session to edit or delete each other's markups, including those embedded in the original PDF. This is especially important when working with complex drawing sets where some markups become outdated or irrelevant but cannot be removed, creating unnecessary clutter and confusion.

These limitations significantly impact efficient collaboration, and addressing them would greatly enhance the Studio Session experience.

As a daily Bluebeam user, I would be delighted to see these features implemented.

Thank you