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If you have multiple email addresses, it is convenient to link them all together in the Vyew system. If someone invites you to a room and send the invite to either of your addresses, they can all be accessed by one Vyew account.  For this purpose we allow you to create multiple Email Aliases for your main Vyew account.

Example

I may have three different email addresses: tim@gmail.com, tim@company.com, and tim@yahoo.com.  I use tim@company.com to login to my Vyew account. My colleagues may have all three of those emails in their address book. When they go to invite me to a Vyew Room, they may invite tim@gmail.com. When this happens an unregistered guest account for tim@gmail.com is created. When I enter that room I will come in as tim@gmail.com, not as tim@company.com (which is my main login).

To solve this problem I will create two Email Aliases (tim@gmail.com, tim@yahoo.com) linked to my main Vyew login (tim@company.com).

How to create an Email Alias

1. Go to the Email Alias Manager
2. You may be prompted to login. Make sure you are logged in as your main Vyew login address.
3. Add your other email addresses with the form
4. A confirmation email will go out and you must click the link in the email to complete the process.

If I have two registered Vyew accounts already, how do I merge and link them together?

If the email alias you would like to create already exists as a registered account, then all the data and rooms will be merged over to the main account. For example, if my main account is tim@company.com, and I create an alias called tim@gmail.com, then any rooms owned by tim@gmail.com will be then transferred to tim@company.com.

There is a major bug which we are working on and will release an emergency fix immediately (by today, Thurs, May 3rd). The issue is that a large number of media object (image, document, etc) inside a room are not editable or movable. No data is lost, it is just no editable. We greatly apologize for this huge inconvenience and are working hard to get this fixed ASAP.

Techincal Details

The reason this is happening is because our database reached a limit on the ID numbers for media objects. We are changing the datatype to account for more media objects and are testing the fix right now. We hope to release sometime during the day today, Thursday, May 3rd.

• New Home Dashboard – monitor activity in all of your rooms
• Page Voice Notes – Easily record up to 5 minutes of audio on each page
• Translate Quickly – If you work with people who write comments in other languages, you can easily translate
• New Language Option – Chinese is now available in the UI
• Hand Grab Tool – Hold the space bar, then click and drag to drag the page around (instead of scrolling)

New Features:

• New Home Dashboard – separate from your rooms list– view recent activity in your account.

• The Vyew User Interface is now available in Simplified Chinese. Set the language in Menu->Account Settings, on the General tab. Other languages to come.

• Page Voice Notes – record up to 5 minutes of audio directly on a page. Accessible via Insert -> More… -> Voice Note.

• Hand Grab Tool – grab and move the whiteboard. Accessible by holding down the space bar.

• Zoom in and out by holding down Ctrl while moving your mouse’s scroll wheel.

• Comments are now translatable to and from many languages.

• Speed Optimizations – This release added some changes to speed up Vyew a bit. More optimizations coming next month.

Touch Devices:

We’ve begun work on getting Vyew to play nicer on Android tablets. Our first set of improvements:

• Scroll around the whiteboard with a finger swipe.
• Tap whiteboard media to select them.
• Most other scrollable components (e.g., chat history, userlist) are finger-scrollable too.

Bug Fixes:

• Youtube videos now playable by Collaborators or Viewers.
• Comments -> Filter -> Filter by User now always shows the commenter’s actual screen names.
• Create New Comment popup now shows the latest comment you’re replying to instead of just the original “head” comment.
• Dynamic Button plugin is now always on top of regular whiteboard media.
• Comment Summary now includes task/approval info.

• Page Voice Notes – Easily record up to 5 minutes of audio on each page

• New Feature: Task Assignments and Page Approval Requests
• Email documents and text directly into your Vyew Room
• Reply by Email to comment notifications for import into the Vyew Room comment thread
• Copy Pages between Rooms
• New MP3 Player plugin
• Updated the Quiz/Poll Plugin for Vyew 4
  

Quiz / Poll Plugin

• Multi-answer poll option.
• Quiz option can be multiple choice, true/false, or answer fill in.
• Single or multiple correct answers.

• Show quiz takers their score after finishing the quiz.
• Show quiz takers the right and wrong answers after answering.

 Interact with Your Vyew Room via Email

• You can now reply to comments posted in your room directly from the notification emails. See here for more info.
• Import files and text via email. See here for more info.

Unlink/Relink Document Pages

When uploading a multi-page document, you can now unlink a page from the rest, so that resizing, rotating, moving, etc, will not affect it. Relinking a page resets it like the rest of the document again.

Copy Pages From One Room to Another

In the page manager, multi-select pages in one room…

… and copy them to other rooms.

Lone Viewer Unsync

When a user enters a room that’s in Sync mode and they are the only one in the room, the room will become Unsync’ed.

SHIFT Key Constrains Drawing Tools

By holding down the SHIFT key before clicking and dragging, you can constrain certain whiteboard drawing tools:

• The Rectangle and Ellipse tool can now draw a perfect square or circle.
• The freefrom Pen tool will be constrained to perfect vertical or horizontal lines.
• The Line tool will be constrained to lines in 45 degree increments.

New MP3 Player Plug-in

Loads quicker, sleeker design, same functionality.

Comment TODOs and Approvals

Comments can now be flagged as a “Todo”…

… or an “Approval” and assigned to a particular user with a due date for follow-up.

Additional Changes

• Comment reply pop-ups are now moveable and now show the entire text you’re replying to.
• Taipei, Taiwan timezone added.
• The room renaming and screen-name renaming pop-ups now support IME text input for non-English characters.
• Imported .TXT files are now converted to editable text boxes.
• Text boxes can now only be edited by one person at a time.
• New, easier-to-use zoom interface for both room and screen sharing modes.
• Holding/releasing the SHIFT key toggles the magnifier tool between zoom in/zoom out.
• Comment subscribers now shown by clicking on Invite→See who has access…

Mac PowerPCs affected

Flash 10.2+ is not supported on Mac PowerPC computers. Users with Mac PowerPCs will need to upgrade their systems or will no longer be able to use Vyew.

Possible work-around

For the more computer literate, there is an unofficial workaround to upgrade Mac PowerPCs to Adobe Flash 10.2 as outlined here.

You’ll need:

1. A PowerPC Mac running Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard, or 10.4 Server Unlimited License.
2. A copy of Pacifist for Mac (shareware).
3. The latest .dmg of Adobe Flash Player 10.2

To install:

1. Install Pacifist into your app folder.
2. Mount the Flash Player .dmg by double clicking.
3. Right click the Adobe Flash Player install file and select “Show Package Contents”.
4. Open the folder “Contents”.
5. Open the folder “Resources”.
6. Copy “Adobe Flash Player.pkg” to your desktop.
7. Right click the Flash Player.pkg.
8. Select “Open with…” “Pacifist”.
9. Click on the “Install” button in Pacifist.
10. Restart your computer.

Improved Page Manager

Improved page manager

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Search within the Room – Search for text within comments, documents, page names or text tool within the room.
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   Easily search and download files in a room.

   Pages/Files Tab – With the Files Tab, you can view all the different files that have been uploaded to this room, find which page they’re on or download them.

3. Thumbnails help you visually search for a specific page.
4. Dock to Side- Click DOCK to keep the Page Manager always visible on the side of the room.

 

 

 

Organize your invitations

In previous versions, all the Rooms you were invited to were kept in a single folder. Now you are able to drag them out to your own folders for more flexible organization. Note that the rooms you've been invited to will still also stay in the “Rooms I'm Invited To” folder to maintain your list of invitations. Whiteboard/Drawing Improvements

 

Improved Drawing Tools

• Precise location of Text tool - previously, when placing the I-beam text tool mouse icon, the text did not type exactly where it was placed. This has been fixed.
• Predefined line widths - For speed and simplicity, we add preset line widths. You can also select other line widths with the sider.
• Use the arrow keys to move media to an exact location - Once you select an image, document, or other media in your Vyew Room, use the arrow keys on your keyboard to shift it pixel by pixel for exact placement.
• Fixed:  copy/pasting of lines – There was a bug where pasted lines became shifted, and did not stay in the proper location.
• Multi-language Text tool  - The Text tool and other text fields now accept typed input for non-Western languages such as Chinese, Russian, etc.
• Edit multiple media properties at once - For example, if you multi-select several lines and shapes, you can then change the line color and thickness all together.

  

 

A few things we’ve been working on:

• Comment Flags— Comments can now be marked with flags such as Todo, Done, Question and Important (Star)
  

  Fixed Copy/Pasting Multiple Media Objects — Now, after selecting multiple objects and pasting them, the newly pasted items do not lose selection so they are easier to position after pastingMP3 Player Fixed — This was the last item on our list of Vyew v3 features that needed integrating into v4. You can insert MP3 files into a Vyew Room from your computer or a URL online. Play the MP3 for everyone in your room, or set it to auto-play when a person arrives on that page. Page Bookmarks — Add bookmarks to special pages in your Vyew Room inside the Page Manager Easier Button Plugin — Do you know what the Vyew Button is for? You can add it to any of your pages to allow easy navigation within the Vyew Rooms. For example, when your visitors click a custom button they can be jumped to a specific page, a different Vyew Room, or a web page. You can insert a button by going to INSERT, then "Button" in the plugin section (may need to click "More" if you don't see the plugins)

• Upload Multiple Documents Easily — Now you can upload multiple files or documents from your computer in one shot. After going to INSERT, From My Computer, simply select multiple files on your computer by holding down the CONTROL key while selecting (on the Mac, hold CMD key).
• Drag / Scroll — If you need to move media objects to a different are of the page that is not currently visible, just drag it to the edge of the screen and the screen will scroll.
• Comment Notifications— We released this feature a month ago, but we made it a little easier to use now. Firstly, the emails are a lot easier to read because we updated how the emails look:

  

  Second, clicking “Reply” now will open up that exact comment in the Vyew Room so you can reply directly in the Vyew Room.

Here’s what we’ve been working on over the past month:

• New Feature: Subscribe To Comments- When responding to a comment in a room, now you can get an email notification when someone else responds to it. Anyone else who comments on that thread also has the option of subscribing.
  

  Minor Bug Fixes - As some of you know, Vyew 4 is a complete re-write of the Vyew interface from the ground up. Since our initial Vyew 4 release, most of our time has been going into minor bug fixes and optimizations. The new Vyew platform gives us a big potential for a faster product. In the coming months we'll be focusing on this area more.Faster Load Time - While there is still more work to do in this area, we've made a few changes which decreased the load time by about ~2 seconds.Fix: Uploading to multiple rooms - This feature was a little buggy in the past. We've worked on this to ensure the page counts are accurate in the Home tab, and uploads to 30 rooms at a time work consistently.Add: Multi-select in Page Manager - Use Shift-Click to select multiple pages to move or delete them all at once.

• Add: Multi-select objects in a room- Though we already had this in the old Vyew 3, we just added this into Vyew 4.

  

• Fix:Laggy Rooms – We identified a problem which caused random users in a room to experience a 3-5 second lag/delay time in the interface. It was related to our auto-saving feature, and has now been fixed.
• Fix: Scheduled Meeting Sync Mode – When scheduled meetings were set to sync mode, they were not actually switching to sync at the time of the meeting. (Fixed in v4.13, March 2011)
• Add: Keyboard Shortcuts (Hotkeys) – Use these shortcuts for better productivity in a Vyew Room.

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Control-RIGHT — Go to the next page
• Control-LEFT — Go to previous page
• Control + (plus) — Zoom In
• Control – (minus) — Zoom Out

Keyboard Shortcuts while an object is selected

• Control-UP — Layer object on top of others (after selecting the object)
• Control-DOWN — Layer object below others (after selecting the object)
• Control-X — Cut
• Control-C — Copy
• Control-V — Paste
• Delete — Delete selected object
• UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT — Nudge an object a little (when it’s selected)
• Shift-UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT — Move object a further distance (when it’s selected)

Things To Be Aware Of

• No Stamp Tool − The Stamp Tool has been discontinued in Vyew 4. The Mathematics Stamp Collection was replaced by the Equation Editor plugin. We are considering adding it in later, but it is not a priority. If you have a problem with this, let us know how important it is to you.
• No MP3 support − We have not yet implimented MP3′s into Vyew 4. We hope to get this out in the next month. If this is a deal breaker for you, then stick with v3. We will make another announcement when that is read.
  

How to Switch to Vyew 4

Go here to switch: http://vyew.com/switchversions

Is My Account Vyew 3 or Vyew 4? How Do I tell?

The link above will tell you.

What’s new in Vyew 4?

It’s been rebuilt from the ground up in the latest Flash Flex4 technology which means…

• Export to PDF/Print – Export your whole room to a PDF file for offline storage or printing.
• The interface is more responsive, faster, and more stable.
• Loading times will be faster. We will be working on optimizations heavily in the coming months.
• Simpler, easier to use interface.
• Secure – We’ve added more security to keep your content safe.
• Searching – Search for content within your rooms (located in the Home Tab, upper right corner)
• New Page Navigator with easier drag/drop rearranging of pages, and docking to the side like PowerPoint.

VyewBook’s are now called Rooms

When we first started Vyew, for some reason we thought of a cute idea to call our meeting rooms VyewBooks. We called them Books, because we wanted to distinguish our meeting rooms from other peoples meeting rooms which were not “asynchronous.” The concept of a book, was that the content was there, and always would be there. In the end, maybe it caused more confusion than it was worth, so now we’re going back to the generic term “Room.” So, from here on out, we’ll be referring to Vyew Rooms, not VyewBooks.