Opening Desktop Documents in Xara Cloud
In order to open and edit a document created with one of Xara's desktop products - that's Designer Pro, Web Designer or Photo & Graphic Designer - you will need to...
Save your file locally either as a .xar or a .web file (File > Save as... ).
Upload it to your chosen cloud storage provider (Google Drive, Dropbox or One Drive).
Open Xara Cloud in your Browser.
Select the cloud provider you saved the file to in Step 2 (see How to connect a cloud storage drive in Xara Cloud if you haven't already connected Xara Cloud to that storage provider)
Navigate to the folder where you uploaded your file and open it.
Collaboration
Once the document is open in Xara Cloud you can edit it in collaboration with Guests or other Members of your team (see our Share With Others article for more information).
Pro tip: Use the various object locking features to control what and how various users can edit a website. Learn more about Object Locking.
Pro tip 2: Annotate your docs and get feedback from others using the Comments feature in Xara Cloud.
New Documents Created in Xara Cloud
Note that any new documents created in Xara Cloud will be automatically saved to Xara Storage by default (see Xara Storage explained) unless you opt to save it back to your external cloud storage. Using your cloud storage is the recommended choice if you are a desktop user. To save your file to external cloud storage instead of Xara Storage, simply select Move to Folder in the File menu of the Xara Cloud editor and select your cloud storage. Note this is a move not a copy, files will be saved and synched there in future, you only need to do this Move once.
Web Documents
If you want to publish your documents to the web you will need a separate hosting account. See this article for info on publishing to the web using a desktop product and Xara Cloud.