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Robert Johnson

I keep finding myself wanting to share a link that would take a board participant to a specific location/view on a board, not an object.

Currently, I can only create a link that will move a user to an object using the "Copy link" option to generate a link with the moveToWidget parameter. This is not ideal as it zooms the user in on an object, so that it fills their screen/viewport, which does not match what want them to see.

My current workaround is to create a rectangle shape that with no colour/fill or border, using that rectangle to create an invisible  anchor point. I then lock the shape and generate an internal Link to link.

One better experience is the Bookmarks app by Miro Labs. This app uses the Web SDK’s viewpoint.set() to send the user to a location on the boar, similar to the internal Link to feature.

Should such a feature be delivered, it seems like an opportunity to also deliver the Wish List idea to have the option to navigate to the current start view (see it here).

Given the additional options in the board's context menu, perhaps they are in an overflow menu, e.g.:

 

Thanks for considering this idea :)

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Shayne Smart
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  • March 13, 2025

@Robert Johnson I found a work-around to link to a set view on a board! See below.

  • The link opens in a browser first, but still sets the view in the desktop application.
  • If there was a way to read the X/Y co-ordinates of the mouse, you could just type the link.

 


Robert Johnson
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  • March 13, 2025

Thanks for sharing, ​@Shayne Smart! I’m going to attempt to spin up a quick app to create these links for us :)


Robert Johnson
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  • March 15, 2025

Here’s an app I created called ViewLink that will generated a link to the current viewport:

Get ViewLink here → https://apps.mirohero.ca

 


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