Upload links

What it is

An upload link is a shareable web address that lets anyone, even people without an Aden account: send files straight into your team. You create one from your workspace, pick where the files should land (documents, media gallery, cover or banner artwork, or as a received transfer), then share the link. Visitors open it, drop their files, and the files appear in your team, tagged with whoever sent them.

If a visitor is already signed in to Aden, the page shows who they're signed in as and records the upload under their account, so the team can see exactly who sent the files. Signing in only attributes the upload. It never adds the visitor to the team.

Using it

Uploading files. Open the link, choose your files, add an optional note, and click Upload. You'll see a confirmation once they're sent. For event links you can also opt to become a fan of the team.

Who the files are from. If you're not signed in, you can add your name and email so the team knows who sent them (both optional). If you are signed in, the form skips those fields and shows a "Signed in as {you}" note instead. The upload is automatically recorded under your account. For event links you can also opt to become a fan of the team.

Where to go next. Under the upload form, and again on the confirmation screen once your files are sent. The page lists the artist's public pages that actually have something on them (tracks, albums, mixes, events, tours, media, posts, shop, songs and albums for sale). One tap takes you from "I shared my photos" to the music and the next dates.

A QR code to display at shows. For a link attached to an event, the show's Media tab carries a fan-footage card built around the code: the artist name and avatar, the show name and date, a large QR that opens the drop page, the artist's public page addresses, and the instruction to point a camera at it. Print poster prints just that block. The rest of the workspace is left off the paper, so it can go on the merch table; Download QR code saves the code as a PNG for your own artwork, and Copy link copies the drop URL.

The card follows the show. Before the show it tells you to print the code or put it on the venue screens; on the day it says fans can scan and send from the floor; afterwards it shows how many files have come in and when collection closes.

A closing date. Collection links for a show close relative to the show, not to the day you made them, 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks (Pro) or 1 month (Pro) after the show, or never. You pick it when you create the link, and the dialog spells out the exact date it lands on. Change closing date on the card moves it later at any time, including reopening a collection that has already closed the printed code keeps working, so a poster that is still up in the venue is never wasted.

Requesting files into an organisation. The organisation drive (Files on an organisation) has the same Request files button. An organisation link is always drive-wide. There is no track, album, event or gallery to point it at, and received files land in the drive's folder named after the link. Read-only organisation roles see the button disabled with the reason.