iEnvision User's Guide
Managing Shows and Groups



iEnvision comes pre-loaded with Web shows using some of the best images on the Web. Shows are organized into groups of shows of similar content, such as Art, Comics, etc. You can also:


Create your own shows & groups

With Envision for the Mac

The highest-quality shows are made with Open Door Networks' Envision for the Mac. Envision is a full-featured Web show authoring and display application for the Macintosh that allows you to choose images from a Web site or a section within a Web site, set specific show parameters (like time between images) and play back, review and modify shows.

Publish with Envision
To publish a show with Envision, just choose "Export for iPhone" from Envision's iPhone menu (Envision 1.2 or later). This uploads your show file to your MobileMe account. See the Envision User's Guide for details. You then import your show into iEnvision:
  1. Run iEnvision
  2. Tap Edit on the iEnvision Groups screen



  3. Tap "+" in the upper left corner



  4. Enter your .Mac (MobileMe) account name into the text box labeled "Add shows or a group from .Mac or MobileMe", and tap the Go button


  5. If prompted, tap the "Envision" button.


Your show will be added to a group in iEnvision's group list -- the group name depends on the iEnvision group name preference in Envision for the Mac.

Publish with iWeb and MobileMe
  1. Launch iWeb, and choose the page template named "Blank". If there is more than one page in your iWeb site, make sure that this new page is at the top of the list.
  2. Set the page title -- this will be the name of the group as it appears in iEnvision's group list. This is "Cycling" in the figure below.
  3. Drag your show file(s) onto the iWeb page. There are three shows in the figure below.
  4. Click iWeb's Publish button (or use iWeb's "File > Publish to MobileMe" menu item).


  5. Run iEnvision
  6. Tap Edit on the iEnvision Groups screen


  7. Tap "+" in the upper left corner



  8. Enter your .Mac (MobileMe) account name into the text box labeled "Add shows or a group from .Mac or MobileMe", and tap the Go button


  9. If prompted, tap the "iWeb" button.


The page title you entered in step 2 will now appear as a group name in iEnvision's group list, and the group will contain your show. You can now add other shows to this group, or make new groups by going through the above procedure again.

With iEnvision

Although the best-quality shows are created with Envision for the Mac, you have the option of using iEnvision to auto-create shows for you. Auto-created shows can't be tuned like shows created with Envision for the Mac, due to auto-creation's lack of editing features, but often turn out fine.

From any Web site (no Mac required)
  1. Use a Web browser to find a site with images of interest to you
  2. Run iEnvision
  3. Tap Edit on the iEnvision groups screen



  4. Tap "+"



  5. In the text box labeled "Add shows or a group from any web site" enter the URL to the Web page, and tap the Go button.



A show will be auto-created and added to iEnvision's group "My Shows". The title of the site will become the title of the show. Show parameters are set to various defaults, including some defaults taken from the iEnvision pane of the Settings application. One important default to understand is that the show will scan the site one level deep. That is, images from the page at the URL you enter, plus any images on the pages pointed to by that page, will be included as long as they meet certain other criteria (for instance they're not too small). For details of site scanning and image selection criteria, check the Envision for Mac User's Guide (intended to be viewed from a computer, not from a mobile device).

From one or more Web sites (no Mac required)
  1. Use a Web browser to locate pages of interest to you.
  2. Create a Web page, using a Web authoring application or text editor, and insert links to those pages.
  3. Upload your page to a Web server.
  4. Run iEnvision.
  5. Tap Edit on the iEnvision groups screen.



  6. Tap "+"



  7. In the text box labeled "Add shows or a group from any web site" enter the URL to your Web page, and tap the Go button.



A show will be auto-created and added to iEnvision's group "My Shows". The title of your page will become the title of the show. As mentioned in the above section, show parameters are set to various defaults, including some defaults taken from the iEnvision pane of the Settings application. One important default to understand is that the show will scan the site one level deep. That is, images from the page at the URL you enter, plus any images on the pages pointed to by that page, will be included as long as they meet certain other criteria (for instance they're not too small). For details of site scanning and image selection criteria, check the Envision for Mac User's Guide (intended to be viewed from a computer, not from a mobile device).

From one or more Web sites, using iWeb and MobileMe
  1. Using Safari, find one or more Web pages with images of interest to you.
  2. Run iWeb and drag the URL(s) of interest from Safari to an iWeb page. If there is more than one page in your iWeb site, make sure that this page is at the top of the list.
  3. Click iWeb's Publish button (or use iWeb's "File > Publish to MobileMe" menu item).
  4. Run iEnvision
  5. Tap Edit on the iEnvision groups screen



  6. Tap "+"



  7. In the text box labeled "Add shows or a group from .Mac or MobileMe" enter your .Mac (MobileMe) account name, and tap the Go button



  8. If prompted, tap the "iWeb" button.



Your show is auto-created by iEnvision, and put into the group "My Shows". As mentioned in the above section, show parameters are set to various defaults, including some defaults taken from the iEnvision pane of the Settings application. One important default to understand is that the show will scan the site one level deep. That is, images from the page at the URL you enter, plus any images on the pages pointed to by that page, will be included as long as they meet certain other criteria (for instance they're not too small). For details of site scanning and image selection criteria, check the Envision for Mac User's Guide (intended to be viewed from a computer, not from a mobile device).

On any topic (no Mac required)
  1. Follow steps 1 through 3 above to get to the Add Groups window.
  2. In the text box labeled "Add show on any topic" enter the topic of interest, and tap the Go button.

A show will be auto-created and added to iEnvision's group "My Shows". The topic will become the title of the show. As mentioned in the above section, show parameters are set to various defaults, including some defaults taken from the iEnvision pane of the Settings application. One important default to understand is that the show will scan the site one level deep. That is, images from the page at the URL you enter, plus any images on the pages pointed to by that page, will be included as long as they meet certain other criteria (for instance they're not too small). For details of site scanning and image selection criteria, check the Envision for Mac User's Guide (intended to be viewed from a computer, not from a mobile device).



Add new shows and groups created by the iEnvision team

Built-in content is constantly being updated by the iEnvision staff. New groups are added, shows are added to existing groups, and existing shows are fine tuned. To produce the highest-quality Web shows possible, the iEnvision staff uses Open Door Networks' Envision for the Mac, a full-featured Web show authoring application.

To update all shows in a group, or add a new group:
  1. Tap Edit on the iEnvision groups screen



  2. Tap "+"



  3. Tap Update



  4. To update all shows in a group, or add a new group, tap the green "+" next to the group name


To update one or more shows in a group:
  1. Tap the group name in the iEnvision groups screen



  2. Tap Edit button in the upper right



  3. Tap "+" in the upper left



  4. For each show you want to update, tap the green "+" next to the show name




Update shows and groups

Update shows

To update a show in any group:
  1. Tap the group name in the iEnvision groups screen



  2. Tap Edit button in the upper right



  3. Tap "+" in the upper left



  4. For each show you want to update, tap the green "+" next to the show name



Update groups

To update any group:
  1. Tap Edit on the iEnvision groups screen



  2. Tap "+"



  3. Tap Update



  4. To update all shows in a group, or add a new group, tap the green "+" next to the group name
Delete unwanted shows and groups

You may find that you want to simplify your iEnvision experience a bit by deleting unwanted shows and groups. To delete a show from a group:
  1. Tap the group name in the iEnvision groups screen



  2. Tap Edit in the upper right



  3. Click the red "-" next to the show you want to delete.



  4. Tap the red Delete button to confirm, or the "-" (now rotated) to cancel.




To delete all shows from a group:
  1. Tap the group name in the iEnvision groups screen



  2. Tap Edit in the upper right



  3. Click the "Clear" button in the lower left of the screen, and then confirm or cancel the deletion.




To delete an entire group:
  1. Tap Edit on the iEnvision groups screen



  2. Click the red "-" next to the group you want to delete.



  3. Tap the red Delete button to confirm, or the "-" (now rotated) to cancel.





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