A Coda doc is open to outsiders: how to close access by link

Symptoms

• A doc with internal policies shows up in search
• Someone outside the company opened the doc by link
• Nobody knows who can see the published doc

Causes and fixes

1. The doc was published as public

What to do: In the Share menu turn off Publish or limit access to people in the company domain

2. The link gives view access to everyone

What to do: Change access to "invited only" and send invitations to specific people

3. Search engines indexed the published doc

What to do: After unpublishing, request removal of outdated content in Google Search Console or through the search engine's form

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