About Board Settings

The board settings panel lets you manage parameters for your board. Find out here in this article how to set up your board.

Warning:

To access the board settings panel, you need to be assigned the permissions to set up a board.

You can access the board settings panel in 2 ways:

1. When you add a board to your room, click the board.

   

2. Click the Settings icon located in the top bar actions of your board.

   

From the board settings, feel free to:

• rename your board,

• duplicate your board,

• resize your board. See the iObeya board size chart to find out more.

• integrate data to your board: integration data allows to add contaxt and target your rooms, board, and elements when you integrate iObeya with other tools.

• delete your board,

• share your board,

• create a template,

• download the board in ZIP format,

• display information about the board,

• switch a single board to read-only mode,

• select a board background from our catalog,

• make your own customized background in any format.

About board background

iObeya gives you access to more than 150 visual board templates ready to use for your teams for free.

From your board's top bar, click the Settings icon > Board backgrounds catalog to access it.

Here is a list of boards where you can use board background:

• Whiteboard,

• Jira board,

• QCD board,

• Azure board.

See Adding a Board to your Room to find out more.

Creating a custom board background

To create a custom board background:

1. Download guidelines.

   From your room

   1. Click Configure the room.

   2. Click the board you want to modify.

   3. From the Contextual menu, in the board background section, click Download guidelines > Download (ZIP).

   From your board

   1. From your board's top bar, click the Settings icon.

   2. Click Download guidelines > Download(ZIP).

2. Create background with PowerPoint.

   1. Open a PowerPoint file with the same size as your board. See About custom board background formats for reference.

   2. Use the different assets to create your own board background.

   3. Save your board background as a PNG file for better quality.

      Tip:

      To get high resolution board backgrounds from PowerPoint:

      1. From the Save as menu, select the PNG format file type.

      2. Click More options.

      3. Click Tools > Compress images.

      4. Select High fidelity or the highest option available.

About custom board background formats

Using your custom board background

To use your custom board background:

Tips:

For board formats bigger than 3A0, click Custom image to add your board background as a background image.

To get a better quality:

• Image Quality: Use high-resolution images to ensure clarity.

• Aspect Ratio: Match the aspect ratio of your image to the board to prevent stretching or squishing. See About custom board background formats for reference.

• Design Elements: Keep important elements away from the edges to avoid them being cut off.

About board size chart

Find out the lists the different board formats available in iObeya and their size in millimeters, inches and pixels:

Landscape

Portrait

Number of elements by board

Switching a single board to read-only mode

As a Room administrator, you can define access restrictions for your boards, preventing any edits or changes by users who do not have edit permissions:

1. Click the Settings icon located in the top bar actions of your board.

2. Switch Read only on.

   

   The board remains visible to all team members, but they are not able to modify its content.

You can enable / disable this option at any time using the same procedure.

Exporting and importing boards

You can save a board with all its characteristics onto your computer and retrieve a board previously used in any iObeya room.