Overviews

Make canvases easier for visitors to understand and get started with.

A canvas overview is a rich text areas found in the left-hand sidebar. They can be used to present information that is most usefully visible everywhere in the canvas viewpoint. e.g. explanatory notes, introductions, canvas development todos etc.

Adding content

You can begin typing normal paragraph text, or type / to select from standard rich-text components like heading, blockquotes, and preformatted code.

The same Markdown syntax is available here as is found in text cells.

Creating a control component will allow you to select a control cell on the canvas which will then be usable in the overview.

Prefixing a @allows you to create mentions:

• Selecting a frame/cell will create a link using the object's title. Clicking this will frame the object in the viewport

• Selecting a workspace user will create them as a tag

If the overview is empty, you will have four options to automatically create overview content:

• Global Filters - Creates aliased versions of all current control cells within the canvas. Note, these are coupled with the in-canvas representations, and will cease to function if those are deleted

• Canvas Guide - Uses the Count AI LLM to generate a short text summary of the current canvas contents for further customisation. This will address the canvas as a whole, and also highlight the interpreted function of individual frames and cells

• Table of contents - Generates a nested list of frames and cells, with each represented as a clickable link that will zoom the viewport to the target

• To-do list - A basic todo list template

Controlling overview display

At the bottom of the overview are two toggles for visibility.

When Canvas visibility is on, a non-empty overview will be visible on page load. When it is off display will default to the data tab.

When Report visiblity is on, a non-empty overview will be visible in report view. When it is off overviews will not be shown.