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100% agree with this request. There needs to more flexibility in session permissions. I can understand the legal rationale for the current defaults but it lacks flexibility and actually hinders collaboration for the use cases described in other posts. In particular, allowing a meeting facilitator to edit/consolidate comments from anyone on the team live during a meeting would be helpful. Also agree with allowing edits of each other's drawings/sketches to enhance the collaborative design process.

@Luke Shiras, not to be rude but did you even read the previous comments in this thread? I and many others already replied - in detail - with how our workflows are affected by being unable to edit existing markups.

Of course we can just overwrite other people's markups, but it is much harder to interpret 3 overlapping markups than 1 single markup edited by multiple people. Some legal uses likely require an explicit trail of who did what, so we're not asking Bluebeam to let everyone edit everything always.

When me and the others in this thread are working collaboratively with our colleagues in Microsoft Office 365 or Google Docs or on physical equipment, we all build on and edit each other's work. But when it comes to Bluebeam, we cannot edit each other's work, we have to essentially raze the building by hiding all their work with a filled white rectangle and then make our new edits from scratch. And then when a 3rd person comes along, they have to cover up everything again with a white rectangle and make new edits yet again from scratch.

I thought about this some more. While I would love to have the functionality added as described in my original comment, at the very least, or as a stop-gap, it would be helpful if there was a way to select mark-ups as editable or not. The default could be "editable by the owner only", but if there was an option to select "mark-up editable by all", that would be helpful.

I agree with what others have pointed out. The current setup where only the original creator can edit a markup makes collaboration harder than it needs to be.

As an estimator, I use Sessions primarily for take-off. I am not concerned with tracking who did what (no legal issues here). What I need is the ability to edit and continue counts that others started or adjust their markups without having to redo work. Right now the restrictions make that impossible and force us into workarounds.

A permission setting that lets Session owners or designated roles edit any markup would solve this and make Sessions far more useful for take-off workflows. I would also like to see full Bluebeam functionality available in Sessions.

Be great if the List of Attendees shown when attempting to 'Alert Attendee' was sorted alphabetically rather than by order of access- when the list gets long, it is very cumbersome to find who you're trying to alert