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I run brainstorms in Miro and have new users coming in all the time. They are usually not tech savvy and have challenges navigating. I’d love if I could set up the boards with blank posits and lock everything BUT the writing, so they can write, but not move, resize anything, just write their idea.
The Frames Management Panel is great to hide/unhide frames, like the Slide panel in PPT. I love that I can hide/unhide frames from this list; and I keep this open during presentations to be able to manage what my training participants can see at any point. I would love to be able to lock/unlock frames from the same menu. Has this been asked for anywhere else? I looked but didn’t find it.
I spend a huge amount of time locking and unlocking when I want to edit one item deep in the board design. The big problem with capturing lots of elements by dragging with the mouse is that you capture all the sticky notes and other interactive elements which should stay un-locked. So I first need to move them out the way, unlock, edit, re-capture all the elements I want locked, then lock them again. It would be so easy if I could unlock, edit, re-lock the same elements. Other locking nice-to-haves would be “lock everything except stickies” “lock everything but allow text editing inside locked blocks”
Would be really helpful if tables could be locked so they can’t be moved or altered, but the can still be input into. I’m having to leave tables unlocked so clients can enter text but they end up moving and resizing them by accident which makes them nervous about using MIRO as they think they are “braking” it!
I produce a lot of board for my school and need to lock a tremendous amount of objects on my boards so that users will not move things by mistake and put the quality of class activities in jeopardy. I can lock objects in bulk which is nice, and can also use filtering in order to make my bulk locking a bit more precise. However, once my bulk locking is done, I have to unlock all when I need to do a correction on one element after seeing an error / mistake in one of the elements now locked. →I would love to be able to select object in bulk and locking them all at once BUT having all the objects being locked one by one / independently from one another, and not grouped / gathered with the other locked elements. → All locked, but all independent from the others. This way, you could lock everything into place at once, and not have to unlock all if you want to make adjustments only on one object out of your locked selection. → You could just unlock it independently.→ Basically, it means getti
Locking and unlocking items can be time consuming, tedious, and prone to error (missing an item). This makes it hard to work on large boards when preparing to collaborate with a group of people. It would be nice to flag an item on a board as “Preserve.” You could then toggle between locking and unlocking those items.
As described in this question: Cannot lock a mind map, I would like to be able to lock mind maps easily. Generally I just need to lock the whole mind-map, e.g. when sharing the outcome of a workshop for any final contributions. Perhaps it would also make sense to be able to lock a node, and thereby lock all child nodes, but generally I find myself just needing to lock the whole thing.
Would it be possible for more automated locking of assets on boards, much time is spent grouping and locking everything after designing a board. More often than not it ends up being the same type of assets. Would it be possible to bring in more automation for these processes? Many thanks.
Educators need to have participants move things around. Therefore the current lock method by the administrator is too basic. LOCKING: Give several levels lock options to the administrator including Lock everything – the whole object – this is your current status Lock the dimension, but the object can be moved around. This is so participants can rotate and move cards graphics on aboard. Currently, it’s a disaster when participants start to move items. They get resized and lost and its very hard to reset the board should participant muck it up. Lock the items but allow participants to entre text. This applies specifically to text boxes and sticky notes. Currently if I lock a text box, no one can write in it. If I unlock it someone might accidentally move it.
Locking the elements of a board that you don’t want anyone to mess with is really critical to running a successful workshop - anyone that has had a workshop where a participant accidentally moves, removes, or duplicates large elements of a board will know what I am talking about. For complex boards, thought it can be very difficult and time consuming to manage locked elements, when you need to make update, etc. Every component of a Miro board should be part of one of two standard layers in any miro board: protected and unprotected. Graphical shapes, Text, etc. should default to protected, and sticky notes, voting dots should by default be unprotected. When you “lasso select” multiple elements in a section of your board, you should then be able to define if you want to select the protected components or the unprotected components. and you can then easily lock the part that you want to protect from being manipulated by a user. If you as the facilitator have to update the board in the mid
Summary: Let me edit items while they are locked and let me look and work through the a hidden frame. I’love miro, but there are two huge pain points for me as facilitator who uses Miro every week with groups in online sessions. As Facilitator, I need to be ahead of things and be able to adjust everything to the process. On the other hand, I want to make sure that my clients do not a) move around my stuff b) they can’t see whats coming next. The current features for locking objects and hiding frames is ok, but far from user friendly. Locked Items: While yes, sometimes it would also be useful to lock items in a way that even I or my co-owner can’t move. The biggest issue with the current way: I usually select many items at once to lock them, but often I just need to adjust a headline or remove two placeholders but while doing so, I unlock again the hole group of locked items - means I need to figure out again, which items to lock. Especially if I added other editable items on top, it ge
Could you add a feature similar to how google sheets allows cell locking for guests i.e. the guest can lock THEIR OWN contributions but not unlock other peoples while a board owner can unlock When a template is locked and several fairly new users are active they manage to corrupt each-others content which creates ‘heat’ that it would be useful to avoid
As a user I want the ability to set the default size of fonts and sticky (ie all user - licensed and guest) will have to use consistent size sticky/fonts. Why - As this ensure uniform view on boards eg Scrum Program Board.
I wish there was an option to lock the text without locking the entire object. Stickies need to be moved, but the sticky’s text should be protected from accidental edits. A lot of our stickies contain critical ideas and information. We use large boards with many stickies. Occasionally, stickies will be edited on accident -- often someone will accidentally select a sticky then use the “n” shortcut to create a new sticky, but instead replaced the selected sticky’s text with the letter “n” on them. I am always slightly panicked with I see stickies that just show an “n.” I would not be panicked if each sticky had version control -- similar to Google Sheets’ “Show Edit History” tool.
Current status: When duplicating a frame, any locked objects in the original frame become unlocked in the new frame. It is unclear what the benefit of this is. Expected Behaviour: It’s more sensible to assume that if there is locked content, that it is locked for a purpose and that this should continue into the duplicate frame Benefits: Immediate use of frame as it should be Save time not having to re-lock everything (again!) Preventing errors of not locking all that should be locked Saving frustration of unexpected behaviour 😅 Use case 1: I am running an open workshop with unknown participant numbers. More people come than I have exercises set up for, so I must duplicate an exercise frame. BUT the frame contains important content that shouldn’t be moved, so mid-workshop, I need to take the time and focus away from the group to re-lock specific objects rather than maintaining the flow for the participants. Not great for facilitation Use Case 2: I have a master Presentation Slides boar
Use case I have locked all frames on my board to prevent students from accidentally moving them around Now I need to make space so I can add a new frame between two existing frames. I have 22 frames that need to be moved down so the new frame can fit inbetween Because all frames are locked I currently have only two options, and both of them are really bad: option 1 - unlock each of the 22 frames 1 by 1, then move them, then lock them again 1 by 1. options 2 - unlock all objects, and then spend the next 3h re-locking all the objects that should be locked Solution When I hold the ctrl key down and use my mouse to select objects, locked objects are also selected Once I have them selected with this method, I can move them like I could move unlocked objects One I have them selected, I can also bulk-unlock those objects that are selected Painfulness extremely high. I sometimes have to spend 30mins or more fiddling with locking and unlocking objects. It’s enough to make you develop serious re
I’d like the ability to set different permission levels for different frames. For example -- create a presentation with some whiteboard frames for breakout groups during the presentation, and then give participants full edit permissions on the whiteboard frames while having only commenting permissions on the slides. I’ve experimented with workarounds for this using the “Lock” feature. You can lock some frames but not others, but all locking seems to do is prevent someone from moving or resizing an item. If a user has edit permissions for the board, then locking a frame still allows them to draw on it. Conversely if I set board permissions to comment-only, then there’s no way I can see to allow users to draw or add sticky notes to part of it. Maybe the solution is to give some more gradations to what “locking” does? Like there’s a “full lock” mode which prevents any movement or additions to a frame, “move-only” locking that allows editing but not movement, etc.?
Locking and unlocking items when preparing a Board can take a painful amount of time. It’s also prone to error, where you can easily miss locking an item and it messes with running a meeting. How about Miro has a feature where you can lock or unlock by shape? You could have checkboxes for the various shapes on the board. For instance, you could lock everything except sticky notes.
I note that Miro does not support layers. In most professional design/layout softwares, layers are not only used for visibility front/back relationships but locking and many other features that I won’t list here. Yes, you can manually “lock” and “unlock” in Miro, but this is exceedingly cumbersome and annoying when you have lots of elements. If you don’t lock things, then you or others can easily drag them all over the place. It would be highly beneficial to have layers that not only are used for visiblity but also for locking.
I am sure we can all think of many items we would like to lock in position but still be able to edit. I’d love for my team to be able to edit Cards on the board but not have to deal with them accidentally getting moved around. A general wish for location-locking only would be great, allowing you to edit the details of items.
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