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Let several people work in the same document without overwriting one another.

Add live collaborative editing to permitted document fields, with isolated rooms and stored state that can recover after people reconnect.

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Live collaboration in a product

Open the same documentPermitted teammates join one room

Edit togetherUpdates and presence move between collaborators

Return laterThe shared document state is persisted

Collaboration stays tied to the document

01Create a shared editing experienceRelay changes and awareness while people work.

02Keep rooms isolatedConnect collaboration to the specific record and field.

03Recover useful statePersist the collaborative document instead of treating it as an ephemeral chat.

Why it matters

A shared document should feel like one place, not a race between Save buttons.

When two people edit the same structured content, ordinary last-write-wins forms can erase work and hide who is active. Building collaborative state as a separate service also risks bypassing document access.

Daptin provides Yjs-compatible collaboration rooms tied to an application record and column. Permitted clients exchange updates and awareness while the backend persists the collaborative document state.

The room inherits meaning from the record: which document it is, who may reach it, and where its durable state belongs.

Work at the same time

See changes and collaborator awareness without refreshing the whole record.

Keep collaboration scoped

Isolate updates by document room rather than broadcasting them across the product.

Return to the shared result

Persist the collaborative state so the room can recover.

How it fits

Part of one connected backend.

Live collaboration does more when it can reuse the records, people, access rules, and workflows already in your application.

Step 1Authorize

Confirm access to the record and collaborative field.

Step 2Join

Connect the client to the document's room.

Step 3Collaborate

Relay updates and awareness among permitted participants.

Step 4Persist

Store the document state for future sessions and recovery.

What it enables

Use it in products people recognize.

Start from the experience you want to create; the backend capability supports the work behind it.

Shared knowledge page

Let a team edit a living document together.

Collaborative brief

Bring product, design, and operations into one working draft.

Structured note

Attach a live document to a project, customer, or case.

Connected by design

Build the next part without starting over.

These capabilities share the same application context, so each one makes live collaboration more useful.

Know the boundary

What Daptin leaves in your hands.

Live collaboration requires compatible Yjs clients and careful schema design. It is not a full editor, commenting system, version-review product, or guaranteed offline merge experience by itself.

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Build from one foundation

Make live collaboration part of the product—not another disconnected service.

Run Daptin locally, explore the live administration surface, and follow one complete application path.

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