Collaborating in Atlas

Collaborating in Atlas

Atlas is designed to make collaboration effortless, whether you’re working with a team or sharing your work publicly. From project management in the dashboard to real-time annotations and comments, Atlas provides all the tools you need to work together efficiently.

In this lesson, we’ll explore how to collaborate with your team, leave feedback, and manage access to your projects.

🗂️ Understanding the Atlas Dashboard

The Atlas dashboard provides an overview of your projects and workspace settings:

• Workspace Projects: Shared with the entire workspace.
• Your Projects: Private projects or those you’ve shared with others.
• Shared With Me: Projects others have shared with you.
• Shared Datasets: Centralized datasets available for workspace members (refer back to Lesson 3).
• Workspace Settings: Update your team’s name, branding, and manage team members.

You can edit team members’ access (view or edit), invite new members via email, and customize workspace preferences here.

📍 Collaboration in a Project

Once inside a project, collaboration features make it easy to work together:

1. Add Annotations

   • Use notes to leave messages on specific areas of the map.
   • Add highlighted text or draw with the highlighter to emphasize elements.

2. Comments Bar

   • Open the comments panel on the right side.
   • Click + to leave a comment. Add text or even images for context.
   • Comments are always saved and linked to the location where they’re placed.

3. Collaboration in Real-Time

   • See collaborators’ cursors as they move on the map.
   • Create threads by replying to comments.
   • Mark tasks as resolved when they’re completed. Resolved comments stay in the comments section for reference.

4. Voting Options

   • Enable or disable voting (thumbs up/down) for comments.
   • Allow voting for all users or restrict it to Atlas account holders.

🌍 Sharing Your Project

Atlas makes sharing your work simple:

1. Share Button

   • Located in the upper-right corner.
   • Projects are private by default.

2. Sharing Options

   • Share with your workspace.
   • Make your project public to share via a link (not indexed or published elsewhere).
   • Protect the project with a password if needed.

3. Invite Collaborators

   • Add team members from your workspace to collaborate directly on the project.

Collaboration in Atlas is intuitive and powerful, allowing you to work seamlessly with others. Start leaving notes, comments, and annotations today, and I’ll see you in the next lesson!