Enify feature I Screen management with Layouts

Enify Layouts offers complete flexibility in managing the physical PC screen environment, whether you have 2 monitors on your desk or 20 on a display wall. Here's how you can use it.

To begin, access the layout area in Enify. You can open this area, choose from the available layouts, and, if your subscription allows, click on "+Create Layouts."

Clicking the "Create Layout" button opens a new window with a replica of your available screens and presets. You can choose to divide your screen into different areas.

Different names under the Layout feature and what they mean:

• Environment: This refers to the arrangement of screens you have, your physical monitors.
• Layout: This is the way you manage your screen, choosing a layout that best showcases your content on your physical screens.
• Presets: these are templates that can be used to create and combine new layouts for end users. You can also create new presets to choose from.

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CREATE LAYOUTS:

1. Click on the layout icon under "Work" and click "+Create" to open the + Create layout window. 

2. Here, you need to select one of your screens by clicking on it and then select a preset.

    

    
3. To select a layout for the other screen, click on that and add a new preset.
4. Click "save," and you will be navigated to the "choose a layout window again.
   
   

CREATE PRESETS:

1. If you don't have a preset that fits your needs, you can create a new one by clicking "+create pesets."
   1. 1. A new window will then appear where you can create a new preset. 
      2. You can add Screen resolution or define how to split the screen horizontally or vertically. If you open the advanced options, you can add margins on all sides of the screens.
      3. Here are more details on the opportunities for creating presets:

 

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USING A NEWLY CREATED LAYOUT:

➡️see here: https://help.enify.no/how-to-change-screen-layouts

 

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Access level:

🏳️ Admin

To get started, you access to the Screens tool. This can be found at the top right of the menu in Enify, if you have the appropriate access level:

1. Click Screens to open the Environment page. In this page you will find an overview of all available Environments already set up for your team. An Environment is the representation of the physical screens and their arrangement; this will generally correspond to what you see on your Windows Display Settings.

CREATE ENVIRONMENT:

1.  Click the  button to create a new Environment. The "Create Environment" page will then open.

2. Create a screen by clicking on the appropriate pane. Generate several to reflect an approximation of your physical multi-screen layout. In the example below, the user has three screens, two of them next to each other and one mounted above.

3. Click Next to name the Environment you want have just created e.g. "3 HD screens".

 

4. Optionally, add a description.

5. Click Next and a review page will open. Check that the information is correct and click Create to save the environment. After this, you are ready to establish Layouts for your Environment.

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CREATE LAYOUTS:

If you clicked Create in the previous section, you will land on a page called Environment Details.

You get to the Environment Details page by double-click on an existing Environment.

Here you can setup and save all the application layouts you want for the selected environment (physical screen layout). Each square in a layout provides a target area for an application to open.

1. Press the  icon to create a new layout and enter a name; try to be descriptive and consistent. (for example; if you have 2 screens and you want to split the first vertically to create 2 "portrait shaped" areas and leave the second alone to provide 1 large "landscape shaped" area then 2P + 1L would be an effective name) . By default there is no layout so the screens appear mostly blank.

2. For speed you can double-click the screen to create a vertical split an area down the middle. You can double-click whilst pressing ALT on the keyboard to split an area horizontally across the middle. All splits are "relative", so a split down the middle will work on screens with different aspect ratios and resolutions; i.e. it will just be a split down the middle. The the right hand mouse button provides many more options.

3. Right-click on one of the screens to bring up all the options you have for creating screen layout under "Display options". Here is the meaning of the different:

4. Once you are happy, add a description if you wish and click the Save icon to save

5. Click the icon to create a new layout on the same Environment

6. Repeat the steps above until you have created enough layouts for your needs. In most cases, splitting a single screen into more than 3-4 areas is probably overkill. 

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USING A NEWLY CREATED LAYOUT:

1. Press "Workspace"

2. Press the refresh button in the upper right corner

3. Click the Layout icon at the top of the My work area

4. Select the Environment you have created by clicking on the paler box at the top

5. Choose your new layout from the options presented below the environment selector

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Below you can see a video of how you can easily create an Environment, a layout for use in Enify: