Share Your Play Editor Drawing and Shape Libraries With Other Coaches on Staff
Allow your fellow coaches to easily access each others Play Editor drawings and shapes by sharing your files through either Google Drive or One Drive.
Click Here for One Drive Instructions
GOOGLE DRIVE
- Everyone will log into their Google Drive on an Internet browser and select the Gear icon in the top right and click the Get Drive for Desktop option.

- Choose Download Drive for Desktop

- Open your Downloads section of your File Explorer and run the installer.

- Select Yes to the first menu and make sure you click the checkbox for Add an Application Shortcut on the second menu.


Caution: If you were given this message when trying to run the installer for the Google Drive Shortcut follow the instructions in this article and then return here.
How to Share File Access if you're using Google Drive
- Check to make sure that the Google Drive App is not already installed on your computer by searching in your windows search at the bottom of your computer.
- Split screen your desktop with one side as Google Drive in your browser and the other as the Documents folder in your File Explorer.

- Click and drag the PQDPlaybook folder into your Google Drive in My Drive.

- Select the 3 dots to the right of the PQDPlaybook folder and hit Share to add the emails of the coaches that you want to have have access to these files. Press Send.


Ensure everyone is using the Shared Master Library by adding it to PQD
- Then everyone will open a Blank Presentation in PowerPoint and go to Play Editor in the right of the Home tab.


- Once Play Editor opens, click on the Libraries button and choose Manage Drawing Libraries


- Click Add Library

- Once the Select Library Folder window opens, navigate and select Google Drive in the navigation pane on the left, then double click on My Drive.

- Double click on PQDPlaybook

- Double click on Play Editor Libraries

- Double click on Drawings

- Select the Drawings folder you want to import and then click the Select Folder button

- Click Done

- You should be able to then see your new drawings library in the selection dropdown

Ensure everyone is using the correct Shapes Library by adding it to PQD
Following these steps in order, Google Drive Desktop should already be installed and the Coach sharing these templates to staff has already shared. If this hasn't occurred please scroll up to the sharing section. These next steps will show how other staff members can add the shared template library to their PQD installation
- Then everyone will open a Blank Presentation in PowerPoint and go to PQD Playbook in the right of the Home tab.


- Once Play Editor opens, click on the Libraries button and choose Manage Drawing Libraries


- Click Add Library

- Once the Select Library Folder window opens, navigate and select Google Drive in the navigation pane on the left, then double click on My Drive.

- Double click on PQDPlaybook

- Double click on Play Editor Libraries

- Double click on Shapes

- Select the Shapes folder you want to import and then click the Select Folder button

- Click Done

- You should be able to then see your new shapes library in the selection dropdown

ONE DRIVE
How to Share File Access if you're Using One Drive
- If you do not have have a Windows 11 machine then you search One Drive and login on an internet browser then run the Download for One Drive.



- Now you will navigate to your PQDPlaybook folder within your file explorer then right click it and hit Share.

- In this menu, you will add everyone's email that you want to have access to the playbook within their own One Drive.

Ensure everyone is using the Shared Master Library by adding it to PQD
- Then everyone will open a Blank Presentation in PowerPoint and go to Settings in the right of the Home tab.

- Once Play Editor opens, click on the Libraries button and choose Manage Drawing Libraries


- Click Add Library

- Once the Select Library Folder window opens, navigate and select OneDrive in the navigation pane on the left, then double click on PQDPlaybook.

- Double click on Play Editor Libraries

- Double click on Drawings

- Select the Drawings folder you want to import and then click the Select Folder button

- Click Done

- You should be able to then see your new drawings library in the selection dropdown

Ensure everyone is using the correct Shapes Library by adding it to PQD
- Then everyone will open a Blank Presentation in PowerPoint and go to PQD Playbook in the right of the Home tab.


- Once Play Editor opens, click on the Libraries button and choose Manage Drawing Libraries


- Click Add Library

- Once the Select Library Folder window opens, navigate and select OneDrive in the navigation pane on the left, then double click on PQDPlaybook.

- Double click on Play Editor Libraries

- Double click on Shapes

- Select the Shapes folder you want to import and then click the Select Folder button

- Click Done

- You should be able to then see your new drawings library in the selection dropdown
