Drawing overlay on worldmap

Dashboard
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Today I discovered the drawing feature for the Worldmap node. I am using the map node on a dashboard. I enabled the Drawing Overlay on the Worldmap dashboard node.

I was able to draw and edit polygons on the map and add text to it. Other dashboard users were able to view the polygon I drew but could not see the text assigned to it. It seems, only the person that draws the object can edit it and see the text attached.

I could only see the text when I left-clicked on the polygon/circle.

However, once I refreshed my browser, I could no longer edit the polygon or see the text.
I had to disable the overlay and redeploy the dashboard flow to get rid of the drawn object.

I would like to suggest some enhancements to the drawing tool.

For my purpose, I would like to see anything drawn on the Drawing overlay be editable by other viewers, allow other viewers to see the text with options to always show the text, show on hover, or show on mouse-click.

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When you complete a drawing it sends a message back to the backend via the worldmap-in node (set drawing actions only) - If you want others to see that then you need to resend it to the worldmap node and remove the msg._sessionid property so that it goes to all and set the msg.payload.editable=true if you want to enable editing.

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Ok, thanks @dceejay I will give it a go.

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