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February 25, 2024
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Whiteboard restricting others from editing

  • February 25, 2024
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Hello,

I am having problems with allowing others to edit/access/annotate my whiteboard even it appears I have allowed all participants.  I keep getting a message that says "admin has restricted access to anyone not in my organization" but I am admin and I can find nowhere to even find this setting or change it.  I've checked every section I can find but clearly. haven't solved the problem.  Since I am the sole person on my account, it restricts everyone!

Help!

 

Best answer by mpaterno

Hi TJHaven,

 

Sorry to hear you're having trouble with locating certain settings! If you have admin privileges, you can find a long list of whiteboard admin settings by navigating to Account Management > Account Settings > Whiteboard (via the horizontal tab bar). You'll find that you'll be able to control the "default advanced sharing settings", including whether users can invite external users. 

 

Let us know if this solves your issue! Happy to take any feedback as well.

 

Matt Paterno

Whiteboard Team

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Employee
February 26, 2024

Hi TJHaven,

 

Sorry to hear you're having trouble with locating certain settings! If you have admin privileges, you can find a long list of whiteboard admin settings by navigating to Account Management > Account Settings > Whiteboard (via the horizontal tab bar). You'll find that you'll be able to control the "default advanced sharing settings", including whether users can invite external users. 

 

Let us know if this solves your issue! Happy to take any feedback as well.

 

Matt Paterno

Whiteboard Team

Newcomer
March 26, 2024

I'm having the same problem, but when I navigate to Account Management > Account Settings > Whiteboard (which are all vertical on the left side of the screen, BTW) all I get is a list of recent whiteboards and the horizontal tabs are just "All Whiteboards, "Recent," "My Whiteboards," etc. There is no "default advanced sharing settings." I have a personal paid account and the person I'm trying to share the whiteboard with using my meeting ID does not. Since it's my meeting, under my paid account, shouldn't I be able to invite the attendees to my meeting under my paid account to edit the whiteboard we are working on? If that's not a possibility, then that's a useless tool

Newcomer
April 26, 2024

I have a similar problem

Employee
April 26, 2024

Hi @dalynmiller and @ReeGodlevska , sorry for the late reply in this thread, but let me see if I can still help. It sounds like the page you're accessing, Dalyn, is a different tab called Whiteboard. If you scroll down, into the Admin section, you'll find Account Management > Account Settings and then in this screen you should see a horizontal menu. Let me know if you have trouble finding this page!

Newcomer
July 3, 2024

can someone help me with blocking the editing of whiteboard?

 

Employee
July 3, 2024

Hi @Constantin678, are you sharing the whiteboard in a meeting? If so, when you initially share a whiteboard, choose presenting instead of collaborating to automatically give users view only privileges. you can also navigate to the share modal and give users view only access.

 

Thanks,

Matthew Paterno

Zoom Whiteboard Product Team

Newcomer
July 3, 2024

Thank you, could you please provide me with step by step instruction, cause I have been trying to do that through various action for a month!!

Employee
July 3, 2024

Hi @Constantin678 , of course! Assuming you're in the latest version of Whiteboard, when you initially share a board you can create a new one or an existing one. If you pick existing one, it will ask "how do you want to share this board?" There will then be two options, collaborating or presenting. Select presenting if you just want to give edit access. Let me know if this works!

 

Thanks,

Matt

Newcomer
July 6, 2024

Hi) sorry for silence, I checked, it works!!! Thank you very much! At last I did it! 

Newcomer
January 17, 2025

When starting a new whiteboard, there is NOT a question asking "present" or "collaborate" it just goes straight to collaborate , we need a way to change this after starting a whiteboard!!

 

Newcomer
January 17, 2025

I figured it out... 

Here's how to turn off viewer collaboration!!! took me AGES to figure this out, but I can confirm that it does work! I have also included a screen shot of me turning it on and off again... go to https://us06web.zoom.us/account/setting?tab=whiteboard and type "whiteboard collaboration" into the search area (highlighted in Yellow on the screenshot)