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private links not working correctly outside of the browser
While clicking on a private link in the browser (or copy pasting the URL into a browser) seems to work fine, when I click on that same link from somewhere else, it does open the 1password app but doe...
Hello theozero! 👋
I'm sorry that links to items aren't opening correctly from non-browser apps. I can reproduce the same issue here on my end and I've filed a report with our development team so that they can look into this further.
Hopefully the issue can be fixed in a future update soon. 🙂
-Dave
ref: dev/core/core#30391
The "Copy Private Link" button will create a link, but that link does absolutely nothing useful.
This has been a complained about issue for a couple years now, no resolution, no priority.
I have 1P for Business, Family, and Personal. All of them extensively use "use private links" in documentation, or "where is that credential" requests. All of that is broken.
Other people have complained that "this isn't critical, just annoying". No, it's critical for the ongoing utility of 1Password in these environments. Teams rely on being able to reference a specific secret directly. I am having to type out "go to the XXX vault, sort by most recent, it has YYYYYY in the title/tags you can search". I sound like a chump, and critical "do this in case things are going bad" runbook documents that were written when private links worked (or under the assumption that it was a brief bug) now need to be re-written with instructions on how to find that secret.
op:// reference values are not clickable by a human end user, and while i love them for automations, it shouldn't be an either-or thing.
The expectation is and should be:
- copy private link button exists
- it generate a link that will only resolve if you have secret access
- someone with secret access clicks that link, and is taken to that secret (in every native application)
- someone without secret access clicks that link and is rejected or confronted with a login screen (whatever is appropriate)
The behavior is:
- copy private link button exists
- that link brings the 1Password application to the foreground
- no deep link between the URL (that goes to a specific secret) and that secret
- no vault change, no going to that specific value.
- cry that my push for 1Password being the "single pane of glass for humans to interact with secrets" was undermined by 1Password acting like Microsoft (derogatory).
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Most users are, per your recommendations, running the 1Password desktop applications on macOS/windows. Though i've heard "the link isn't working" from iOS, android, and web users as well.
I have no idea how to find 1Password entries when somebody sends me a link. I have tried logging into the 1Password portal in the browser and then clicking the link. Doesn't take me to it. AT A BARE MINIMUM, I wish we could paste the link into the 1Password desktop app and have it find it for me but that doesn't work. I always have to ask my colleagues to tell me what the item is named so I can search for it myself. Our internal documentation uses 1Password links all over the place but I can't click on any link and have it take me to it. So frustrating to have to track people down to get the name of the item. Especially if I'm in a maintenance window and need access to something. Chances are I can't reach who I need to reach to ask them what the item is named.
