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Lock content in a mural

Keep your work in place, even as collaborators move freely in the mural.

Why lock content?

Your collaborators can move around the mural, but that doesn’t mean that you want your content to move with them. Locking content to the canvas ensures that collaborators don’t accidentally move something during a meeting or workshop. You can relax knowing that your work will stay in place. If you’re facilitating in a meeting, you can also use the superlock feature.

Lock content to the mural

  1. Right-click the content you want to lock. This opens a dropdown menu.
  2. Choose the lock option in the menu.

To unlock, right-click the object and select unlock.

How to lock and unlock several elements

Instead of locking and unlocking individual elements, you can do it all at once to save time. You can lock several elements by:

  1. Hold down Control/Command + shift and then drag your cursor to select all of the content you want to lock. The selected content has a blue outline.
  2. Right-click and select lock
  3. To unlock them, right-click on the surface of the mural and choose unlock all.

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Hi, I'm Megan and in this video, I'm going to show you how to lock and unlock content in your murals. So, in this mural, I have prepared an activity that I'm going to do with my team. But I don't want them to accidentally move certain kinds of content. So this title here, and this framework, I want to make sure that it stays put in so we can just focus on doing the activity with these sticky notes. So in order to keep my team from accidentally moving things around, I'm going to select this framework. And we're going to right click it and choose the lock option. So for this exercise, I'm just going to say any member can unlock. We'll go over the difference between the two of these options in a separate video. So I'm going to choose any member can unlock. And now I can tell that my framework is locked, because I see this little lock icon in the bottom right. If I want to move my framework or resize it or make any Changes to anything that I've locked, I can unlock them by saying, unlock and if I have multiple things unlocked in the same mural. So if I lock both of these down and I decide I want to make a big change, I can just say, right click directly on the surface of the mural and say unlock all. So everything that is locked in this mural will become unlocked. And I can select it and edit it freely. And that's it. You're good to go.