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Enhance Whiteboarding Features

Please enhance whiteboarding features across the Webex platform. Things like persistant whiteboards, virtual sticky notes, drag-and-drop shapes would all help us empower our engineers to be more collaborative during the new normal of Work @ Home. Keeping in mind that not everyone can have access to a Webex Board or a Desk Pro/DX80. Integration with a technology from Miro would be great!

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  • Jun 22 2020
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  • David Pattie commented
    1 Mar, 2021 09:43am

    Would it be possible to get an update on the progress of enhancements @Jon Fanebust?

  • Jon Fanebust commented
    19 Aug, 2020 01:43pm

    Thanks for raising this and appreciate all the ideas!

    We are working on enhancing the whiteboard functionality - both on devices in our Apps. This includes the feature set in the native whiteboard app that will be enhanced over the coming cycles. We are also looking at closer integrations with 3rd parties, although a lot is already possible using browser on the Webex Board or Desk Pro, or even using touch redirect to connect a PC directly.

  • Guest commented
    30 Jul, 2020 04:51am

    We have requests from customers to add Visio type templates for workflows, network diagrams and city planning to Whiteboarding.

  • Guest commented
    13 Jul, 2020 12:02pm

    We have a lot of requests for Miro so like functionality would be a blessing. With WFH, whiteboarding / corkboard / collaboration boarding has become vital to improve collaboration capabilities.

  • Wade Hunter commented
    9 Jul, 2020 05:04pm

    While you're at it, please improve the whiteboard UI in Webex Teams. Currently, it opens in the main Webex window, and clicking the "X" in the top-right corner closes the entire Teams app, which causes a lot of confusion for users. Clicking the "hamburger" menu on the left seems to be the proper way to close it, but this is not intuitive at all.

  • Guest commented
    6 Jul, 2020 10:34am

    In a shared whiteboard, for drawing near existing objects I need to press Ctrl also for pointing at existing drawing objects I need to press Ctrl. I would be better to have to press Ctrl for moving objects, in other words to reverse the working of the Ctrl key.

    It would also be nice to see drawing objects as they are made, not only when they are done.

  • Enrico Fregnan commented
    29 Jun, 2020 12:58pm

    It would also be great to have an option for importing pictures, shapes, draw straight lines and add links to websites inside a whiteboard

  • Katrin Mansfeld commented
    29 Jun, 2020 09:56am

    I really would appreciate virtual sticky notes and drag-and-drops to do proper exercises in my trainings!

  • Guest commented
    22 Jun, 2020 09:31pm

    perhaps integrate the features of diagrams.net (formerly draw.io): https://app.diagrams.net/

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  • Jackie Geilfuss commented
    22 Jun, 2020 08:30pm

    Completely agree! Now, more than ever, we need to be able to reimage many of the must-have features of offices, such as whiteboards. Because employees may not have access to tablets/styluses at home, adding whiteboarding features that can be used with a trackpad/mouse would be valuable. Enhanced virtual sticky notes and drag-and-drop shapes would be so helpful. Whiteboarding features in Webex Teams are a start, but could be developed further, and they need to be able to utilized consistently across the Webex platform and in Webex Meetings.

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