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Use Canvas In A Meeting

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Use Canvas In A Meeting

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Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Use Canvas In A Meeting

Visual Space manual, Live Apps, Use Canvas In A Meeting

Use Canvas in an activity meeting to review artwork together or make focused changes without leaving the shared stage. The meeting opens the same durable Canvas file you can use outside the call, so the work remains available after the meeting ends.

Open an existing Canvas during an activity meeting to review the artwork together or make changes in context. The meeting uses the same space-owned file, so saved changes remain available after the call.

Before You Begin

Live apps are available in supported activity meetings, not direct-message calls. Participants still need access to the Canvas and its owning area; opening it on stage does not grant file access.

Use an existing Canvas when possible. Creating one requires Canvas app access, Coordinator access, and an eligible destination area. If the artwork needs preparation, follow Create, save, and reopen Canvas artwork before the meeting.

Open the Artwork on Stage

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Open Live Apps - Choose Live Apps from the meeting actions.
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Choose Canvas - Open the Canvas explorer for the meeting's area and browse the accessible files and folders.
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Select the artwork - Open the intended Canvas. Wait for its name, artwork, and layers to load before reviewing it.

Other participants can select the Canvas feed as they would another feed in the meeting. Check that everyone who needs to contribute can access the same document.


Choose Canvas from the meeting's Live Apps picker before browsing the activity's accessible files.

Review and Edit Together

Canvas can share layer edits and live pixel changes while people keep their own workspace view. Pointers help the group indicate where they are working. For a review, one person can make the requested adjustments while others discuss the result; for parallel work, agree which layers or areas each editor will handle.

Avoid simultaneous painting over the same pixels. Later changes can replace earlier ones in an overlapping region. Live collaboration does not guarantee that two different treatments of the same area will both survive.

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Work in the normal editor - Use the familiar tools and Layers panel. The meeting does not create a disposable copy.
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Keep context beside the artwork - Open Article for supporting text or Comments for discussion about the document as a whole.
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Change the meeting view when useful - Moving between meeting layouts preserves the matching Canvas document.
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Switch files deliberately - Use Browse files to choose another Canvas. Finish saving the current artwork first, since this changes the document being reviewed.

Finish With a Confirmed Save

Choose More > Save when the review changes are complete and wait for the save result. Routine autosave collects changes before saving; a participant seeing a live stroke is not proof that the online saved copy is complete.

If saving is delayed or the connection is recovering, keep the browser and artwork available while the issue settles. Follow Saving and sharing for local recovery and fresh-device verification.

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Return to the explorer - Choose Browse files after saving if the group wants another Canvas.
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Watch another feed - Select a camera or another meeting feed when you only want to change what you watch.
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Close the live app intentionally - If you started the live app and Close live app is available, it stops that live app for the room. Use it when the group has finished.

Leaving the meeting does not delete the saved Canvas. Reopen it from its owning area, Docs, or an accessible document link to continue later.

If the File Is Unavailable

Check that the meeting belongs to an activity, then confirm the owning area and private-area membership. A missing creation action can reflect Canvas or Coordinator access. If the editor reports an opening failure, use its retry or browse action rather than treating an incomplete load as missing artwork.

Return to Canvas for the editor overview, or Saving and sharing for the collaboration and access boundaries.


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