How to Make a Rock Visible Across Teams in Ninety

When a quarterly priority spans multiple teams, sharing a Rock gives every relevant team visibility into its progress without splitting ownership or creating separate records. The Rock stays in one place, managed by one owner, and appears on as many team pages as needed. Any Owner, Admin, Manager, Implementer, or Managee/Team Member on a paid plan can share a Rock with additional teams.

How sharing a Rock works

Sharing a Rock makes it visible on additional team pages. It does not copy the Rock or transfer it to a new team. The Rock, its owner, and its milestones all remain in one place. Status updates and edits made anywhere are reflected everywhere the Rock appears.

The Rock's primary team (the one it was created under) remains unchanged. Sharing adds visibility; it does not change ownership or team assignment.

How to share a Rock with additional teams

You can share a Rock with additional teams when creating it or at any point afterward from its details panel.

1. Click Rocks in the left navigation.
2. Click the Rock you want to share to open its details panel. To share during creation, open a new Rock using the Create button.
3. Scroll to the Other Teams field in the details panel.
4. Click the Other Teams dropdown and check the boxes for each team you want to add.

Changes save automatically. The Rock will now appear on each selected team's Rocks page.

Understanding the Shared Rocks section

When a shared Rock's owner is not a member of the receiving team, the Rock appears in a Shared Rocks section at the bottom of that team's Rocks page rather than in an individual's column.

If the Rock's owner is a member of the receiving team, the Rock appears in their card alongside their other Rocks, with no separate section.

The Shared Rocks section also holds Rocks owned by team members who leave the team mid-quarter. 

Sharing vs. moving a Rock

Ninety does not have a "move" function for Rocks. Sharing a Rock adds it to another team's page while keeping the original team assignment intact.

To change a Rock's primary team rather than just add visibility, open the Rock's details panel and update the Team field directly. This removes the Rock from its original team's page and reassigns it to the new one.

If the Rock's owner has also changed teams, update the Owner field at the same time. See Assigning Rock Ownership for guidance.

Sharing vs. creating a linked Rock

Sharing and linking are two different tools for two different situations. Sharing keeps a single Rock visible in multiple places. Creating a linked Rock creates a separate, independent item.

Use a shared Rock when one person is accountable and multiple teams need to stay informed. Use a linked Rock when two teams each need to own and track their own version of a related goal.

Troubleshooting

A shared Rock is appearing in the Shared Rocks section instead of under a person's name. This happens when the Rock's owner is not a member of the team the Rock was shared with. This is expected behavior. If you'd prefer the Rock to appear under an individual's column, add the Rock's owner to that team. If cross-team visibility is all that's needed, the Shared Rocks section is the right place for it.

I want to move a Rock to a different team entirely, not just share it. Open the Rock's details panel and update the Team field to the new team. This reassigns the Rock to the Rock's primary team and removes it from the original team's Rocks page.

I unshared a Rock, but it's still showing on the other team's page. Try refreshing the page. If the Rock continues to appear, contact support.

The Rock isn't appearing on the shared team's page at all. Confirm the team was successfully checked in the Other Teams dropdown and that changes were saved. If the Rock still doesn't appear, try refreshing the page. If the issue persists, contact support.