Power Nodes: How to show presentation to external screen?

Suppose that you have created some presentation using Power Nodes. This post will show you how to show it to an external screen like TV Screen or projector. Following is steps to do that:

1) Connect your device to an external screen

You can connect your iOS device to an external screens by different ways: using HDMI+ cable and adaptor; Apple TV with AirPlay,...

You can find detailed guidelines to connect to an external screen here ... http://www.wikihow.com/Connect-Your-iPhone-to-Your-TV

Notes: If you are using Apple TV and AirPlay, turn ON mirroring screen mode on your device!

2) Return to main screen of Power Nodes and select presentation you want to show

Select presentation from list on the main screen of Power Nodes

And then tap on "presentation" tool on the left of main screen to go to presentation screen

3) Presentation Screen & Tools

When you enter the presentation screen, title of the first page of your presentation will be shown in the centre of showing area. If there is any external screen connected, any thing appeared in side of showing area will be shown on the external screen at the same time!

Power Nodes: Presentation screen and showing area

Toolbox on the left side of presentation screen can be used for:

1) Change background colour of the showing screen
2) Show current page node by node
3) Show all page at once
4) Re-show the current page
5) Enter sub-page attached to selected node (if there is any)
6) Show/hide notes of current page
7) Go back

Power Nodes: Show current page, node "Mathematics" has sub-page

Power Nodes: Show notes of current page

Power Nodes: How to add sub-page to selected node?

This post is to show how to add new page as the sub-page, attached to the selected node of the current page. We will show how to do that by example of "Business Planning" presenation.

The first page of the presentation shows a scheme of main items of business management structure:

• Objectives
• Strategy
• Finances
• Market
• Products/Services
• Human Resources

Note: This is sample only, users can choose to add/remove any item based on your idea, for examples you can add item "competitors" or "Market trends".

Presentation Editor: First page of "Business Planning" presentation

Now you want to add new page to nodes to explain more details of each item. Let take "Finances" item, it may consists of following sub-items:

• Investment
• Target Revenue
• Expenses
• Taxes
• Profits

 Next picture will shows how to add a page to node "Finances" to show detailed items:

Presentation Editor: Add sub-page to node "Finances"

1) Touch on the shape "Finances" on edit screen to show "node actions" tools. On the left of editor's screen you will see tools for:

• Editing title of selected node
• Add new node, connected to selected node
• Changing sizes, colours, borders of selected node
• Changing style, colour of line linked nodes
• Adding page to selected node or show the sub-page if it already created
• Remove selected node

Note: On the bottom of page you can see tools for changing style of shape of selected node

2) Tap on "Adding page" tool, this action will create new page, attached to node "Finance". You can choose style for this new page. If the page is created already, this simply shows the page on editor screen.

Presentation Editor: Sub-page, attached to node "Finances"

Some other actions on editor's screen

1) Move selected shape:  users can re-arrange nodes of current page by selecting a node and "panning" on the screen to change its position

2) Panning with no selected node will move all nodes on the screen. To unselect all nodes, tap somewhere on the editing area, out-side of the picture.

Power Nodes: Presentation Editor

The following is main screen of presentation editor, which appears when users open existing schemes or create new scheme.

Editor screen consists of 5 parts:

1) Title
2) Main tools
3) Left tools
4) Bottom Tools
5) Drawing Area

Presentation Editor

The picture of current page of the scheme is shown in the drawing area. If the scheme is just opened or created, the main page will be shown.

(1): Show page's tools on the left.
(2): Show shapes' tools (actions with all shapes of the page)
(3): Show lines' tools
(4): Edit page's title, page's note and all shapes titles at once
(5): Save editing scheme
(6): Go back
(7): Edit page title
(8): Edit page note
(9): Auto-arrange shapes
(10): Zoom In/Zoom Out
(11): Export current page

Depends on users actions, different tools sets will be shown on the left and bottom of the screen. For example, if users touch on toolbox (3), the tools sets are:

Change lines/links of the page

And, if users touch on any shape:

Shape's editing tools

In most of cases, it is easy to know a functionality of each tool. With the provided tools users can make presentation relatively easily with iOS devices: iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.