Annotation - Accidently moving drawn lines

[Jonathan.Kennedy]

Hello fellow Webex Meetings user,

The annotation tool in Webex Meetings is very useful when teaching. However, it appears to always 'pick-up' previously drawn lines. Imagine, you draw a graph with an X and Y axis. You then try to draw a curve originating on the Y axis. As soon as you click (or tap if using a tablet) to start the curve you actually pick-up and move the Y axis. Very frustrating! 

Other tools (E.g., Microsoft Whiteboard) have a tool that you need to select (a lasso) in order to 'grab' a previously drawn line so you can move it. Does Webex Meetings Annotation have a similar tool that I'm missing?

How do YOU draw a curve on a graph without moving the Y axis? What happens when you try this?

Thanks!

[Fritz_H]

It probably would be sufficient as a first step to offer 2 tools: paint (not editable) vs. draw (editable, movable)

[b-zarek]

On Windows, holding the ctrl key will stop it from moving previously drawn lines. I'm not sure how this would work on a tablet. 

It looks like they are planning on improving the whiteboard features. I found out about it here: https://ciscocollabcustomer.ideas.aha.io/ideas/WXCUST-I-408 

[Fritz_H]

@Jonathan.Kennedy 

As a work-around you may want to try using another (more useful) drawing-tool and share the content via screen-sharing.

[yungszen]

Yes i agree.. The webex annotate tool is really frustrating. Comparing my annotating experience with Z***, I really see a lot of room for improvement for webex annotate.  

As you mentioned, the annotate moves the previously drawn lines and there is not option to disable this..

I have never used this "moving" feature when most of the time, we just want to scribble and can instead, we can find somewhere empty.. 

There are two more problems that I frequently face..

1.  Requesting to annotate.. This is very troublesome when we want to request to annotate..  Attendee privileges have been enabled so why the need to request it again?

2.  The annotation doesn't disappear although it has been erased. Other viewers can see that it has been erased but for the person sharing the screen, he/she would need to disable and reenable annotation to clear it.

Not sure if you also faced these issues..

[Jonathan.Kennedy]

Hello @yungszen,

Not certain where we can make feature requests, but I'd be happy to detail these challenges and request a change to the system if I knew where to do so. In the meantime, I will continue to use the Microsoft Whiteboard tool, as we have it licensed, it can be shared, and works well!

[Fritz_H]

@Jonathan.Kennedy 
"Not certain where we can make feature requests, ..."
Cisco offers this forum for your ideas and suggestions:  User Community Feedback (aha.io)

and:
I noticed that the Whileboard-feature of Webex-Meetings is very different from the Whiteboard-options in Webex(-Teams): no movable objects, just "painting". Perhaps this is more suitable for your use-case?