Visual editor

We use the visual editor to configure your room. In the visual editor you can both manage your room settings and design your room with different elements. Under the category ‘Rooms’ you will find an article per element. Before starting with the elements, you can find some more general information about the visual editor in this article.

Preview

In the visual editor you will find a preview of your room:

However, there might be some small differences on certain elements. Therefore, it’s recommended that you also check your applied changes in the event itself.

 You can log in to the event by following the next steps:

• Go to the dashboard
• Select the event you want to configure
• Go to the general info & event settings
• Open the URL reception
• Log in

Room settings

Under room settings you can configure the following things: 

• General room settings: such as the room background or welcome messages
• Access settings: such as capacity, opening hours etc.
• Avatar positions: to configure the avatar position in this room

General

• Slug: you can find more information about a slug here. The slug of your room can be chosen freely with exception of the lobby. The slug of your lobby should always be ‘lobby’ because the URL that leads to your lobby has already been created. 
• Name: indicate here the name of your room
• Show room name in footer of event: select this box if you want to include the name of the room in the menu bar of your event
• Width = width of your room should be ‘1280’
• Height = height of your room should be ‘650’
• Room background = here you can choose which room background you’d like to use. By clicking on the media icon on the right, you can select your image from the media library. Read more about it here. 
• Mobile room background = choose here if you want to upload a different room background for your mobile configuration. Read more about it here
• Thola logo = in each room the Thola logo will be displayed by default in black in the top left corner. If you rather want to use our white logo, you can type ‘white’ in the text box. Read more about it here. 
• Show a popup with a welcome message: select this option if you want to show a welcome message the first time a user enter that room.     
  • Title: fill in the title of your welcome message
  • Message: fill in the message 
  • URL: Make sure you use the URL for embedded content. Read more about it here. 
  • Force message to be shown again to everybody on save of the save: optional

Access

• Status: indicate here whether your room needs to be open or closed
• Secret key: enter a secret key here in case you want to lock your room with a secret key. Only people who enter the correct key, can enter this room. 
• Capacity: if you want to have a maximum of visitors that can access your room, you can manage it here.  
• Roles: you can only allow people in your room that have a specific role. 
• Opening hours: you can put specific opening hours on your rooms

We've created a separate article about room access, which explain all of the above options in detail. You can find it here.

Avatar positions

Read more about how to configure your avatar positions here. 

Add elements

Here you can find an overview of all elements that can be added to your room. You can find detailed explanations on how to configure all these elements under the menu 'rooms' in this helpdesk.

Element properties

If you click on an existing element in the visual editor or if you add a new element, then automatically the properties of this element will appear on the left side. 

You will need to fill in these properties to configure the element. Required fields will also be displayed and will give an error message if you try to save it without filling these in. 

Arrow commands

In each room you will always find an ‘information icon’ next to the name of your room.

Here you learn more about how to use your keyboard commands to execute certain functions like moving, deleting, duplicating elements and more.

Undo and redo

In case that you have made a mistake in the visual editor and would like to go one step back, you can use the 'undo' button. 

We keep a history so you can undo multiple times. In case you pressed ‘undo’ too many times, you can still redo the previous action to navigate through the history of actions. 

We added icons on top of the editor to use these actions or you can use the keyboard commands (see above)

Aspect ratio

The aspect ratio is used to describe the width and height of an element. If the aspect ratio is activated and you make your image wider, then the height of your image will be adjusted proportionally. By deactivating the aspect ratio, you can change the width (or height) of an element while the height (or width) stays the same.