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Join a Dato Room from a link

Open the link you were sent, say who you are on the page it opens, and you’re in the same drawing.

A link opens a page of its own, not a box over somebody's drawing. It says whose room it is, what’s in it and how many are there, and asks who you are. Nothing is joined until you press Join.

  1. Open the link in your browser. (Or choose Join on the home screen and paste the link.)
  2. Type the name you would like to be called by. The round badge takes its letters from it as you type, and the little sheet on the right shows you and the host as you’ll look. Pick a colour if you like, and choose whether the others can see your pointer and which page you’re on.
  3. Choose Join. If you already have marks on a drawing you’re offered the chance to save first, because joining opens the host's drawing.
  4. The drawing arrives and the lobby opens. Start marking up: everybody sees your marks as you draw them.
The invitation page: the logo and the words Dato Room at the top, You're about to join Alex Hart's Dato Room, a card for Alex Hart (Host) and the drawing, a name box with a round badge showing SR, a row of colour swatches, two switches for what others can see, and a Join button. On the right a little sheet of a roof plan with the host's pointer in orange and Sam Rivers's pointer in blue.
The invitation page. The host and the room (1); your name, with the badge following it as you type (2); the little sheet showing how you and the host will look (3).

If you have been here before

With a name already saved, the page greets you instead: “Welcome back, Sam! Ready to join? If all the information below looks good, click Join when you're ready!” Your name, colour and what you share are already set; Change opens them. To skip the page altogether, turn on Go straight in from an invite link when my name is saved in Settings › Collaborate.

If the host lets people in one at a time

Then pressing Join puts you in the waiting lobby: you’re held at the door, the host has been told, and you go straight in when they say yes. See Let people in, and hand the room over.

If the host didn’t share the drawing itself, you’re asked to open the same file first, then use the link again. It has to be the very same file; a copy that was exported or edited since is a different file.

Your name, colour and what you share

How you look to others (name, colour, initials, a status line) is in Settings › Collaborate, and the page above sets it for you. So is what you share: your pointer, which page you’re on, and whether you see other people's pointers.

If the host didn’t share the drawing itself, you’re asked to open the same file first, then use the link again. It has to be the very same file; a copy that was exported or edited since is a different file.

Your name, colour and what you share

How you look to others (name, colour, initials, a status line) is in Settings › Collaborate. So is what you share: your pointer, which page you’re on, and whether you see other people's pointers.

In DatoMark Join with a link

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Try it on a real drawing

DatoMark runs in your browser, and your drawing stays on your device.

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Written for DatoMark 0.1.1-trial.1. These pages are made from the same words as Help inside the program, so the two cannot disagree.