Work on a board with other people
See who else is on a board, what they are pointing at and editing, and what happens when you both change the same thing. It works on every kind of board, but not in Present.
See who is here
- Open a board that a teammate has open.
- Look beside Versions, at the top right. Each person is a circle with their initials, in their colour. After four, a count such as "+2" stands for the rest.
- Hover a circle to read the name.
On the canvas you see each person's pointer with their name, and an outline in their colour around what they have selected. While they are typing in it, a label on the outline reads "Sam is editing". If you have it selected too, "Sam is editing this" appears beside the circles.
Pick your colour
- Click your initials at the top right of the page (Your account).
- Click Profile.
- Under Cursor colour, click a colour or Automatic.
- Click Save.
The rest of the page is in Sign up, sign in and manage your account.
When you both change the same thing
Nothing locks, and the last save stays. If you each change a different detail of one shape, both changes usually stay.
An action that depends on other shapes, such as moving a shape into a frame, can collide with someone else's change. You then see "Someone changed this at the same moment, try again." Do it again.
On a prototype, undo leaves alone anything someone else changed since, and tells you so.
Other people's changes
Their changes appear without reloading, but wait while you hold the pointer down on the canvas or a text box is active.
If you lose your connection
A change that can't reach the server shows "Couldn't reach the server. Check your connection and try again." and is taken back. The page doesn't reload, so nothing else is lost. Make the change again once you are back online. If you see "Couldn't reach the server. Try again." instead, your connection is fine; the problem was ours for a moment, so make the change again.