# Invite from the open project
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/make-music/invite-from-daw

The desktop app sees which DAW project is open and lets you invite someone to its track from the menu bar popover, the menu bar menu or the home screen. They get the project to download before they have an account, and signing up links them to the track.
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## What it is [#what-it-is]

When you have a project open in Ableton, Reaper or another DAW that keeps its
file open, Aden desktop knows which one it is. If that project's folder is
linked to a track, you can bring someone into it straight from where you are.

## Using it [#using-it]

**From the menu bar popover.** Click the Aden icon. The open project sits at
the top with an email field. Type an address and press Enter, or tap one of
the people your team has worked with.

**From the menu bar menu.** Right-click the Aden icon. Under *Open projects*,
each project has *Invite collaborator…*, which opens a small invite window,
plus *Open track in Aden* and *Show in Finder*.

**From the home screen.** The open project shows above your suggestions with
an *Invite* button.

**A project not linked yet.** *Find track* in the popover and on the home
screen, and *Link to a track…* in the menu bar menu, open Files on the app's
Folders tab with the track picker for the project's folder.

**What they get.** Someone without an Aden account gets an email with a link.
The link opens the track and lets them download the project right away, no
account needed. *Join Aden* signs them up with the invited address, and the
track shows up in their account on its own. Someone who already has an
account gets a notification and a push.

**Taking it back.** Every invite you send stays listed with *Undo*. Undo
removes them from the track, and the emailed link and download stop working.
For someone new, the link icon copies the invite link so you can send it
yourself.