Tutorial
MaxWhere
tutorial
Let us take you on a journey through the most important features of MaxWhere. Follow us and learn about MaxWhere's super cool features and how it allows you to arrange your information flow.
Once you open MaxWhere, you will see a list of your downloaded Spaces, your favourites as well as different Spaces belonging to several categories separated into scrollable lists.
To add or remove a space from your favourites, click on the ❤️ icon.
If you click on the My Spaces tab located on the top navigation bar, you can see three separate lists of Spaces you own, you can edit or you can view.
If you wish to view more details about a Space, you can click on the expand icon located at the upper right hand corner of the Space cards.
Once on this view, you can download the chosen Space, or remove it from your device. If you are an owner of the Space, an Edit button will also appear here.
You can download any Space by simply clicking on the download button (downwards arrow) on its card. You can open a downloaded Space by clicking on the play icon.
You can switch between navigating the Space and accessing the menu with a right click gesture.
Within the menu, you can access everything you need to create and edit Guided Tours within the Space. You can also reload the contents of the Space at any time, or change the navigation and display settings using the settings panel.
Provided you have at least editor privileges within the given Space, you can access the smartboard editor tools on the right-hand side.
The blue hand icon represents the Quick Editor, while the orange edit icon represents the Project Editor. These editors share most of their functionality, but approach editing from different perspectives.
The Quick Editor edits whatever you were pointing at (with the crosshair in the middle of the screen), provided you have permissions to edit that Project - while the Project Editor allows you to choose the Project you want to edit.
As you begin to explore our spaces, you will discover that each space may contain any number of so-called Selection Panels, each of which includes a list of Projects.
These Selection Panels let you choose between Projects to display.
Each Project can in turn consist of any number of Smartboards, displaying content in various layouts in the Space. By selecting any of the Projects, you can load the associated content into the Space.
Also if you have at least editor privileges, you will be able to modify or create new projects that can then appear in any of the Selection Panels. You can learn about this more in depth in a later chapter.
Finally, at the bottom of the screen, the MaxWhere menu has icons for toggling the fullscreen mode, muting the Space, and for opening the help menu.
For tips about how you can navigate Spaces, check out the help menu, or the last part of this tutorial.
Depending on your MaxWhere access rights, you may receive ownership privileges to certain Spaces.
Once someone becomes an owner of a Space, he or she can grant anyone else either editor or viewer privileges.
Clicking on the expand icon on the upper right corner of the card of any Space allows you to view further details about that Space.
If you are an owner of a space, you can also edit its details by clicking on the pencil icon on its card, or by clicking on the expand icon, and then clicking on the Edit button.
As you can see, this will open the MaxWhere Portal in a web browser window, where you can edit the details of the Space. You can edit its name and description, show or hide metadata, add or remove tags, switch the Space to public or private (thus giving or removing implicit viewer permissions to/from anyone), share the space with people and view all the available Projects in the Space.
As an owner, you can also specify what content will appear inside the Space, once someone opens it. This includes all Selection Panels that will appear in the space.
Editors cannot make changes of the Primary Project , and also cannot modify or create new Selection Panels. However, they can create new Projects to be listed in any of the Selection Panels, and may determine the layouts and content inside those Projects.
Regardless of whether you are an editor or owner of a Space, you can edit the Projects inside the space in the same way. However, if you are an owner, you will have some additional options.
To edit the content inside a Smartboard, just click on it, and change the URL inside the URL bar on the top of the screen. You can also load local files, like images or PDFs into a Smartboard by clicking the Open icon next to the URL bar. Either way, by saving changes at the right side of the bar, the new content will be synced up to the cloud.
To edit the layouts of the Projects inside the Space, as well as to create new Projects, you have several options. To change the size, location or orientation of a Smartboard (or Selection Panel), one option is to open up the MaxWhere menu while the crosshair is over the Smartboard – then open up the Quick Editor with the blue hand icon and use the controls that the editor provides.
As you can see, the editor panel also includes a save icon that will sync your changes to the cloud. Using the Quick Editor, you are free to edit any number of Smartboards in succession. You will be prompted to save your changes whenever you switch to a Smartboard that belongs to a Project that is different from the one you were previously editing.
If you want to edit a specific Project, and disable the editing of all others in the meantime, open up the Project Editor instead of the Quick Editor. This editor lets you select a specific Project from a specific Selection Panel, using tools that are very similar to the Quick Editor.
If you want to create a new Smartboard, you can also use either the Quick Editor or the Project Editor - just use the + icon within any of the two editors, while the - sign is used to remove Smartboards and Selection Panels.
To create a new Selection Panel, use the + sign within the Quick Editor, then select Primary Project, or alternatively, you can use the + button in the Project Editor as well, if you select the Primary Project as the one you are going to edit.
Finally, if you want to create a brand new Project, you can do this in two ways - you can add a project directly to a Selection Panel inside the Selection Panel or open up the Project Editor menu, and select Create New Project.
Move the mouse to look around
Use the scroll wheel to move back and forth
Hold the left button down on your mouse to move in straight line up and down or left and right
Hold down the right mouse button to orbit around an object
Hold down the scroll wheel and fly around smoothly
Move your finger on the touchpad to look around
Swipe with two fingers to move back and forth
Hold down the SHIFT or OPTION key and move your finger on the touchpad to move in straight line
Hold down the CTR (Command) key and move your finger on the touchpad to orbit around an object
Move your finger on the touchscreen to look around
Swipe your finger on the right side of the screen to zoom in or out
Hold one finger in the top left corner and swipe with another to move in straight line
Hold one finger in the bottom left corner and swipe with another to orbit around and object
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