flyingshapes-links

If you received a link similar to https://community.flyingshapes.com/join/local-invite/192.168.255.6:5563:5564 by your colleague, this means you have been invited to a collaborative design session.

How to open an invite link

If you have an on-premise installation, you can open such a link simply by clicking it or pasting it into your web browser. You should get a prompt from your browser similar to the following screenshot:

Open

Simply press Open link and flyingshapes should start automatically and connect to your colleague’s virtual design room.

As an alternative, you can paste the link directly in flyingshapes by right-clicking into the text field next to the join button in the collaborative setting:

Open

How to generate a local-invite

Any user with a flyingshapes installation and an on-premise license can create these links. Simply click on “Start Sharing” in the collabora collaboration settings (button at the top right hand corner) and click “Copy” to copy the link.

For Administrators

We have two setups for collaborative sessions: P2P and Cloud.

The default setup will use the cloud connection to our public servers.

Switching from public cloud to private cloud

The parameter userKerriganAddress_ in the following file defines the hostname of the cloud server flyingshapes will connect to when the user clicks on Start Sharing

%userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\flyingshapes GmbH\flyingshapes\local_settings.cfg

If you have an on-premise server running, simply change the variable to the domain or IP of the locally installed server

Switching from cloud to P2P

If clients are connected to the same network, they can connect via a P2P connection.

To allow the user sharing their sessions this way, simply change the variable userHostType_ to zmq in the settings file %userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\flyingshapes GmbH\flyingshapes\local_settings.cfg:

Changing the used ports of a P2P connection

Pear-to-pear connection links have the following format:

flyingshapes://local-invite/{hostname or ip}:{ZmqPortPushPull}:{ZmqPortPubSub}

This means that the host that generated this link has two open tcp-ports:

ZmqPortPushPull: default is 5563

ZmqPortPubSub: default is 5564

These ports can be changed in the following settings file on:

%userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\flyingshapes GmbH\flyingshapes\local_settings.cfg