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Collaborate Menu

How to control how others use and interact with your paper

Shahid Lakha avatar
Written by Shahid Lakha
Updated over 2 months ago

Clicking the collaborate menu button (above) or pressing hotkey N on your keyboard, opens up the collaboration settings menu.

Here you can lock a paper, enable class mode, edit cursor settings or see a list of users currently connected to the bitpaper.

You can lock any paper that you own to stop other people interacting with it or editing it.

You will see a little padlock icon on the collaborate menu button in the bottom left of the screen and a toggle inside the collaborate settings menu that allows you to lock your paper.

When you lock the paper, other people will still follow your view and be able to see everything you do, but they will not be able to write, change boards, undo, delete, etc.

Locking a paper also stops people from editing it while you are offline.

Only the Paper owner can lock/unlock a Paper.
When you lock a paper, all other people who visit it will see an orange banner at the top saying that the paper is locked.
It will animate if they try to interact with the paper.

Class Mode

When working with multiple users at once, having several cursors on the screen at the same time can be distracting.

Enable this setting to hide all other users' cursors for each other. I.e. only your cursor will show to all other users. They can still see their own cursor, but not each each others.

This setting helps facilitate classes on bitpaper and is only available to the paper creator.

Cursor Settings

In cursor settings you can change the display name on your cursor (delete it to hide your name), change your cursor colour, toggle whether or not you see other users' cursors on your screen, and toggle whether or not you see other users' names on their cursors.

User List

A list of all users currently viewing a bitpaper.

More accurately, this is a list of all the browser tabs viewing a bitpaper. These may correspond to individual users or different devices.

For instance, if you have a non logged-in secondary browser tab on your device viewing a bitpaper it will be registered as a 'Guest'.

For logged-in users the list will display their name as set in their account settings.

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