Migrating to ActivInspire

I am currently in a webinar on Migrating to ActivInspire and thought it would be a good idea to put some of my notes into this blog for my fellow CFF teachers. So here goes:

Editing Profiles--There are options now to create different profiles for your software. One note is that the "At the Board" profile is designed to use when you are presenting at the board. It makes the flipchart full screen size.
ActiveInspire has a different approach to adding tools to your toolbar. You now do this through the Editing profiles options. Click on the Commands option. You will see all the tools available and you can add them to the toolbar for this profile.
Settings in the Profiles equate to the studio settings or preferences options in ActivStudio 3.0.

Resources--Resources are now available from your Browsers windows. You will notice that your shared resources do not transfer automatically from ActivStudio 3.0 to ActivInspire. You will have to manually import them. Please be aware that it is possible that you will lose the resources in ActivStudio 3.0 when they are transferred.

Browser Windows:
Page Browser--You can drag pages to another flipchart by clicking on the page and dragging it to the flipchart name in the menu bar that you wish to place it in.
Property Browser--You can see all the properties for each object on the page or your actual flipchart page. Using the properties allows you to make many adjustments to your page and objects. It is much easier to make Containers now with this browser. You click on the object and look at its properties. Go down the list to Container. Complete the option choices. Make sure to pick the objects themselves from your flipchart and set them to Return if not correct. You can do all of these at once by drawing a box around them. You can also set your Restrictors from this Property Browser window.

Another new feature is the Setting Labels feature in the Property Browser. Click on your object, or example a line to a drawing, and set your options under the Label section. You can have them visible all the time or by marquis selection only.

All pages in a flipchart now have a grid on them. By default this grid is not visible. You can make it visible and change its attributes in the Property Browser. Grid Designer will allow you to change the size, shape and position of the grid.

Action Browser--You can add an action to an object just by clicking on the Drag and Drop option. Drag your action onto the object and let go. One thing to remember is that you no longer have the Enable/Disable Actions button. You have to switch to In Design Mode to disable your actions.

These are just a few of the things I jotted down as I was listening. I plan to give you more of an overview in a training session. There are a lot of differences and we will learn as we keep exploring! If you have and "A Ha" moment as you work, plan to share it with your colleagues at a training session!