Kumu
  • Getting started
    • Welcome
    • Kumu 101
    • First steps
    • Quick tips
    • Webinars
  • Overview
    • Kumu's architecture
    • Accounts and workspaces
    • Kumu.io and Kumu Enterprise
    • Billing
    • User interfaces
      • Dashboard
      • Settings
      • Map editor
      • View editors
      • Quick Actions
    • Collaborating and sharing
    • Actions and permissions
    • Security
    • Advanced Editor hub
      • @settings reference
      • @controls reference
      • Color reference
      • Property reference
      • Selector reference
  • DISCIPLINES
    • SNA / Network Mapping
    • Systems mapping
    • Systems Practice workbook
  • Guides
    • Activity feed
    • Add-ons
      • Disqus
    • Bridge
    • Cluster
    • Controls
      • Cluster control
      • Color-legend control
      • Filter control
      • Focus control
      • Image control
      • Label control
      • Showcase control
      • SNA-dashboard control
      • Tagged-timeline control
      • Text Control
      • Title Control
      • View toggle control
    • Decorations
      • Direct decorations
      • Data-driven decorations
      • Flags
      • Icons
      • Images
      • Label templates
      • Popovers
    • Default view settings
    • Export
    • Fields
      • Computed fields
    • Filter
    • Focus
    • Forking
    • Grids & Guides
    • Import
      • Structure your data for Kumu
      • Excel / CSV
      • Google Sheets
      • JSON / Blueprints
    • Imported views
    • Layouts
      • Fixed
      • Force-directed
      • Remove overlap
      • Scatter
      • Snap-to
    • Legends
    • Licensing
    • Lightbox
    • Loops
    • Metrics
    • Two-factor authentication
    • Pro workspaces
      • Archiving projects
      • Discussions
    • Partial views
    • Presentations
    • Profiles
      • Markdown
    • Project admin
    • Selectors
    • Shapes
    • Share and embed maps
    • Shortcuts
    • Showcase
    • Slugs
    • Table
    • Templates
      • Geo template
    • URLs
    • Views
    • Widgets
  • About Kumu
    • What is Kumu?
    • How does it work?
    • Where can I get help?
  • Enterprise
    • About enterprise
    • Getting started with VMWare
    • Upgrading
    • Configuration
    • Creating user accounts
    • SSH Access
    • Single sign-on
    • Backing up enterprise data
    • Restoring enterprise data
    • Command line utilities
    • Changelog
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Does Kumu have a public API?
    • Does Kumu make use of AI?
    • How do I add annotations?
    • How do I add anchors to my map description?
    • How do I add arrows to my connections?
    • How do I add documents to profiles?
    • How do I add more than one element with the same label?
    • How do I add text dropdowns to my map overview?
    • How do I adjust arrow size?
    • How do I avoid duplicating data?
    • How do I change connection curvature?
    • How do I change font color?
    • How do I change font size?
    • How do I change the default for currency fields?
    • How do I change the length or strength of connections?
    • How do I change the order of control options?
    • How do I change the position of my element labels?
    • How do I cite Kumu?
    • How do I collapse duplicate connections?
    • How do I copy a map to another project?
    • How do I control label size while scaling element size?
    • How do I control text wrapping?
    • How do I convert a project from private to public?
    • How do I convert a project from public to private?
    • How do I create dynamic on/off toggles for my map?
    • How do I customize link text in popovers?
    • How do I customize the order of my legend?
    • How do I delete a project, map, or view?
    • How do I delete data from my project?
    • How do I downgrade my subscription?
    • How do I edit virtual elements?
    • How do I get rid of duplicates?
    • How do I hide elements without connections?
    • How do I hide images from the map but keep them in the profile?
    • How do I hide labels on my map?
    • How do I hide the settings button?
    • How do I keep elements from moving?
    • How do I list an element's connections in its profile?
    • How do I make elements transparent?
    • How do I make sense of my receipt?
    • How do I open a sub-system when clicking on an element?
    • How do I remove the Opposite entry from my legend?
    • How do I remove unneeded controls?
    • How do I remove unwanted legend entries?
    • How do I rename my map/view?
    • How do I restructure my adjacency matrix?
    • How do I select options by default in my control?
    • How do I set a minimum or maximum zoom level for my map?
    • How do I show the Settings button?
    • How do I size elements based on number of connections?
    • How do I transfer a project?
    • How do I update my credit card information?
    • How much data can my Kumu project handle?
    • How do my readers switch between maps and views?
    • My data won't import. What can I do?
    • My Kumu embed is not working. What can I do?
    • My map disappeared. How do I bring it back?
    • My PDF won't export. What can I do?
    • What pricing plans does Kumu have?
    • Where can I find my invoices?
    • Where can I find example Kumu projects?
Powered by GitBook
On this page
  • Project settings
  • Map settings
  • View settings

Was this helpful?

Edit on GitHub
  1. Overview
  2. User interfaces

Settings

PreviousDashboardNextMap editor

Last updated 21 days ago

Was this helpful?

You can edit settings for each , , and in Kumu.

Project settings

Within the project settings, you have the following options:

  • Activity feed. Use the activity feed to keep tabs on who’s making each change across your project.

  • New project. Create a new project.

Map settings

Each map has the following available actions:

  • Rename map

  • Duplicate map

  • Delete map

  • Make this the default map

And each map has the following settings:

  • Default view. Select the default view for a map. This is the view that will automatically load when someone visits the map.

  • Default connection direction. Set whether new connections should be undirected, directed, or mutual.

    • Undirected. No arrows will appear at either end of the connection.

    • Directed. An arrow will appear at the To end of the connection.

    • Mutual. Arrows will appear at both ends of the connection.

View settings

Pro tip: right-click on any blank space in your map to access a quick-access toolbar that allows you to edit or delete your Project, Map or View. You can also use it to hide the direct decorations toolbar, reset your view, or access Kumu Support through here!

Project settings are accessed via the menu icon in the upper left of your screen (on the ).

Overview. Add a project overview and a for everyone to see.

Presentations. Create, edit, and publish to walk others through your project. Break down your complex project using the slide format of presentations, adding text, images, videos, and fully interactive map slides.

Help. Access how-to videos, the docs, , and a list of keyboard shortcuts.

Fields. Manage the for your project. Add and edit new fields, change field relevance (which fields appear in the profiles for elements, connections, and loops), and manage field appearance and behavior.

Members. Give other people access to edit your map. .

Embeds. Create a shareable link to a map, or create an iFrame to on another site.

Trash. View and empty the for your project.

Admin. Change privacy, rename the project, , or delete the project. You can also enable/disable the image proxy when .

Add-ons. Install one of Kumu's .

Fork project. Create a copy of a project. .

Switch project. Navigate back to your .

Map settings are accessed from the map sidebar via the ellipsis icon in the upper right corner of the .

Default element behavior. Set whether new elements should be fixed or floating. .

View settings are accessed via the settings icon on the right side of the map. If you want to save, rename, duplicate, or delete a view, you can click the ellipsis icon in the upper right. You can also use that icon to set the default view for the current map.

To learn more about editing the view itself (for example, adding decorations, filtering, changing default settings, etc.), .

license
presentations
our open Slack team
fields
Learn more about collaborating in Kumu
embed your map
archive the project
working with images
add-ons
Learn more about forking
dashboard
Learn more about fixed and floating layouts
read the guide on View Editors
top toolbar
side panel
trash
project
map
view
settings locations
project settings
map settings
view settings