Cooperative mode plugin now is a part of DM-OSV program and to run it, please, run DM-OSV. You'll see:
Press 'Sign Up' button and fill all fields in an appeared form:
Then press OK and you'll be registered on cooperative mode server.
After registration you'll see the dialog with local storage root folders selection. Specify folders where the media that you want to show and discuss is placed. You can specify several folders with media:
Please note, that if you are specifying folders with a lot of files such as root Dropbox folder or disk root folder, then the DM program may slow down when you are connecting to virtual room (see below).
Then press 'OK' button.
You can edit local storage root folders list at any time. To do this you should click right mouse button on 'Local Storage' and press on 'Select root folder':
Also, you can always see currently selected local storage root folders list in tooltip message on the 'Local Storage' item:
If you registered earlier, click 'Sign In' and enter your registration email and password.
After logging in you should see cooperative mode plugin panel:
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To open media (movie, image or 3d-model), please, select in menu 'File' > 'Load Data' and select media using standart file dialog. Then you should see you media in central program widget.
To show and discuss the media with other users you can create new virtual room with this media or change media in existing virtual room.
Click on button (3), then fill room name field and select room color:
Press OK and you'll see new room in room list:
Room creator automatically gets master role in the room.
To invite other users to a virtual room, you should:
You should see invited user in room user list. You can also invite to room unregistered users. They will be shown in room user list in italics:
To change media file in a virtual room, do following steps:
Instead of two tabs you should see one tab with new media:
To enter to a virtual room and open its media you should do double mouse click on room name in room list (4).
An asterisk next to the name of the room shows that you is connected to the virtual room:
A tab with an opened room media will have the same color in its title as the room has. Also the tab will have a room name prefix in its title:
You can disconnect from a virtual room by two ways:
Way 1 - close the tab that associated with the room.
Way 2 - select room in room list (4) and press button (8).
If you want that another user pays attention to the room, you can send to that user room notification. To do this, select the virtual room and press right mouse button on target user. Then, press on "Send notification to ...".
After this, another user will see notification icon at the corresponding line in the room list (4):
Media state now consists of:
You can remove yourself from virtual room by doing next steps:
The virtual room will not be removed from cooperative server. Other room users can continue work in the room.