Cooperative mode plugin now is a part of OSV program and to run it, please, run OSV. You'll see:
New user registration | Signing in to already created account |
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Press 'Sign Up' button and fill all fields in an appeared form: Then press OK and you'll be registered on cooperative mode server. | If you registered earlier, click 'Sign In' and enter your registration email and password. |
After logging in, you will see the cooperative mode plugin panel:
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You can show and discuss media files that supported in OSV using cooperative plugin. For this you should create virtual room with necessary files, then invite and wait collocators.
You or another room user can change room files list at any time when this user is connected to the room and has master role in room.
Also room master can change files list and order in the OSV data tab that corresponds to the opened room.
Now you can create a virtual room only for an active OSV data tab that is not correspond to any room yet. See here how to open data in OSV.
Click 'Create room' button to create virtual room for this tab. Enter room title and select room color. It will be used to visually distinguish several opened rooms in tabs at the same time.
After clicking OK you'll see next changes:
Note that a room creator automatically takes master role in the room.
Then you can change room files (see section 'Changing room files' below) or invite other OSV users to your room (see section 'Inviting users to a room' below).
To connect to the virtual room double click on the correspondent row in the room list or select the room row by single click and click on 'Connect' button.
To disconnect from the room close its tab or select the room row in the room list and click on 'Disconnect' button.
To invite other users to a virtual room, you should:
You can also invite into the room non-registered users. They will be shown in room user list in italics:
To user you invite into the room will be sent an invitation email. Email will contain a hyperlink to open the virtual room and link to download the OSV program.
For opened rooms now the next data is synchronized in tab:
Please note, that only one user can have master role at any time in the virtual room.
Users with 'Listener' or 'Master' role will share their mouse cursor positions in synchronized tab views to other online room users:
Mouse curcor color is correspondent to the color that the user selected on registration.
Users with 'Guest' or 'Listener' role can change only local specific room tab settings:
Many others GUI panels are locked for users with these roles.
To add files to the virtual room or delete files from it you should firstly connect to the room and take master role in it.
All changed in room file list will be synchronized with other room users when they start the OSV and will logged into cooperative account. |
To add new files to the virtual room you should drag necessary files from:
and drop them to:
In all cases new files will be uploaded to cooperative server and than be added to the room.
To delete file the from room right-click on the file in data server file list, then click on 'Delete data' in the context menu:
This data will be removed from any room tab where it was added.
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 in the room users list. Then, press on "Send notification to ...".
That user will be notified by email with link to the room. If that user is already online in the OSV cooperative plugin then the room row in the room list and tab (if room is opened) will be updated with flickering orange circle: