Using Alara Space
Whiteboards
Draw diagrams with shapes, arrows and text on an infinite canvas that saves as you go.
Create a whiteboard
Use the + next to a space or page and choose Whiteboard. It sits in the page tree like any page, with a pen icon, and has the same comments, versions and files panel.
Draw
The toolbar at the top of the canvas has:
- Rectangles, diamonds, ellipses, arrows, lines and free drawing.
- Text, and labels inside any shape (double-click a shape to type in it).
- Stroke and fill colours, stroke width and style, sloppiness, and layering.
- Hand tool to pan, and zoom with
Ctrland the mouse wheel.
The canvas is infinite. Arrows stay attached to the shapes they connect when you move them. Press ? on the canvas for its own shortcut list.
Saving and history
A whiteboard saves itself shortly after you stop drawing, and before you leave the page. Save a version from the Versions tab to keep a milestone, and restore it later. If the same board was changed in another tab, you are asked to reload instead of overwriting it.