Boards
Board settings
Everything you can change about a board lives in two places, and there is no settings dialog to go looking for.
Everything you can change about a board lives in two places: the pill at the top of the canvas, and the Share panel beside it. There is no settings dialog, which is worth saying plainly so you stop looking for one. ## From the top bar | Control | What it changes | |---|---| | The name pill | Click to rename, commits when you leave the field | | Share | Who has access, at which role, and whether a public link exists | | Presentation mode | Hides the working chrome so the board reads as a presentation | Presentation mode is worth knowing about. A board full of tool cards and pills is a workspace; the same board with the chrome away is something you can put on a screen in a meeting without apologising for it. ## From the Share panel Access is a board-level setting rather than a workspace-level one, so a board can be shared more widely than the workspace around it. - **Invite people** by email, as **Editor** or **Viewer** - **Resend or remove** an invitation that has not been taken up - **Copy the public link**, which is read-only and needs no account - **Copy the embed code**, an iframe at whatever size you set [Sharing a board](/docs/using-plnty/boards/sharing-a-board/) covers what each role can actually do. ## What is not a board setting Three things people reasonably look for here and will not find, because they belong to the workspace: - **Storage and credits.** Both are workspace-level, shared by every board in it - **Members.** Workspace membership is separate from board access, and most people get to a board through the workspace rather than through an invitation - **The library.** One library per workspace, not one per board :::note[Why so little] A board is a document rather than an application. The settings that would normally accumulate on something like this live one level up, on the workspace, which is also where they belong when you have thirty boards and want them to behave the same way. ::: ## Deleting one From the workspace home rather than from inside the board, which is deliberate: it is hard to delete the thing you are looking at by accident. The assets stay in your library. Only the canvas goes.Everything you can change about a board lives in two places: the pill at the top of the canvas, and the Share panel beside it. There is no settings dialog, which is worth saying plainly so you stop looking for one.
From the top bar
Section titled “From the top bar”| Control | What it changes |
|---|---|
| The name pill | Click to rename, commits when you leave the field |
| Share | Who has access, at which role, and whether a public link exists |
| Presentation mode | Hides the working chrome so the board reads as a presentation |
Presentation mode is worth knowing about. A board full of tool cards and pills is a workspace; the same board with the chrome away is something you can put on a screen in a meeting without apologising for it.
From the Share panel
Section titled “From the Share panel”Access is a board-level setting rather than a workspace-level one, so a board can be shared more widely than the workspace around it.
- Invite people by email, as Editor or Viewer
- Resend or remove an invitation that has not been taken up
- Copy the public link, which is read-only and needs no account
- Copy the embed code, an iframe at whatever size you set
Sharing a board covers what each role can actually do.
What is not a board setting
Section titled “What is not a board setting”Three things people reasonably look for here and will not find, because they belong to the workspace:
- Storage and credits. Both are workspace-level, shared by every board in it
- Members. Workspace membership is separate from board access, and most people get to a board through the workspace rather than through an invitation
- The library. One library per workspace, not one per board
Deleting one
Section titled “Deleting one”From the workspace home rather than from inside the board, which is deliberate: it is hard to delete the thing you are looking at by accident.
The assets stay in your library. Only the canvas goes.