Is it possible to return after following the link?

Hi @Nadezhda Vykhodtseva,

@Simon.Harris is correct, there is no return home feature currently, but this is not a bad idea.

Creating a HOME link or Table of Contents is the best thing I can recommend right now.

Jon

Has this been updated yet? It would be great to create a guided map that jumped to other areas (deep dives, or footnotes) but take you back to where you last linked from.

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@Jason Dinkel & @Nadezhda Vykhodtseva :

How a back-link button works shows @Isman Tanuri on his board:

If you click from the center :

you will get to this section:

As you can see Isman has placed inside his side few “Back to Menu” Buttons where you get Back to the center again.

This is a perfect example how you can link and backlink to a section - of course miro does this not automaticly but this site is one of the best examples how the linking tool inside miro does a perfect job.

Michael

Thank you for the shout, @mlanders! 

@Jason Dinkel - I clicked on the Twitter link and saw the video. That’s really cool and I love your 3D world idea in Miro. I hope to see that happen in the future of the platform.

At the same time, my goal is to make Miro (as it is now) as simple as possible for 100% of new users (I use Miro as platform for facilitation). Perhaps 3D Miro could be a plugin upgrade for power users?

In retrospect, my board that @mlanders shared earlier is actually pretty relevant to this topic. The idea behind that board’s creation was how can I create a “flat website” for my company. Where you can see “all pages” instead of needing to jump from one page to another without the ability to see the big picture. Pretty often I get questions from clients who do not know I have other services apart from those they already know. This was an attempt to address that.

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Great ideas, @Jason Dinkel. I’d go back to first principles: Miro and other similar platforms are fundamentally places where people can collaborate in real-time to get work done. What you’ve described are pretty neat, but truly an extended feature of the product for different, perhaps more advanced users. Some need it, some don’t. 

There’s truth in your statement too: 70-80% of people I worked with are pretty much Microsoft environment savvy through no fault of theirs. So I respect that and the community works together to help these ‘slow adopters’ get used to new ways of working.

It’s always a balance between building a product where the majority of people can use comfortably (majority of revenue ie the iPhones) vs a very innovative product that appeals to a small select group (limited revenue ie the Samsungs or Huaweis with foldable screen phones.)

Is there a wish list item for this?  I’ve just started using Miro in earnest and I am always trying to “go back” after following a link while presenting / roaming a board.

Use Case:

A flow diagram that has a “macro view” of a process, with one or more steps in the process being linked off to another flow diagram that details that particular step further.  I usually link the shape to another frame with the detailed flow diagram and navigating there as I’m presenting the flow is a breeze - click and go.  But when I want to “go back” to the macro view, I have to do some hoop-jumping to get there.

Ideal Solution:

Allow me to “go back” (e.g. Alt/Cmd + Left Arrow, “back button” on my mouse) so that I can return to where I came from when I followed the link.

Technical Thoughts:

A buffer of “positions” could be maintained at the user level - a linked list if you will. A “position” could be determined as a point where the user was stationary for a period of time.  Following a link would immediately define a new position.  Any dragging / zooming movements around the screen would result in a “position” being marked if the user stays stationary for, say, 2-5 seconds.

This would result in a buffer of positions that could be navigated forwards and backwards as needed.  

If I navigated “back” in the buffer and took a new path “forward”, the list could be truncated.

This is analogous to a browser’s history.

I see a few a bit different use cases, mainly:

• Dashboard reader - What I’m using is “Overview” frame with links to detailed frames. Each “detail” has sticker/link to go back to the “Overview”.
• Dashboard editor - I’m working on one, two to three places at a time. I place there small temporary frames with name such as “>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>1”, “>>>>>>>>>>>2” so there are easily visible in the list of frames (you can just click there to jump to marked place, also you can drag/drop them). Also you can use search for “>>>>” to get easy to the right place. You can use cut/paste to move them.

  

   

Another useful tip for editors of huge dashboards with a lot of work is to copy/paste a sticker with “todo” tag to be able to mark places that requires more work. To get that list of such locations you can visually search by color or you can use search button (just put “todo” there and you will find all).

Greetings

Am a very new user,  but frankly find the absence of a GOBACK key a major issue.  really surprising this is  not already part of the product.  Given the size a board can grow to,  having to find where you just came from can be a real pain.   

I just linked an item in a ToDo list to a meeting agenda frame .. when i followed it,  i arrived at the agenda frame which already zoomed to fill the screen .. had to shrink the screen and find the ToDo list again .. really a pain ..why would you have a link where you cannot return to teh source?     I dont buy the suggestions to program a return separately, each time you do a link ..   I hope this feature, which is in almost every other piece of software,  gets added.  

Tom  

Vote on this idea! Return or go back button after following a link inside Miro