User Data

Use the User Data panel to add information about your project or image. The information can be added to the HTML template and within the skin using Placeholders. You can also use HTML tags to add a bit of styling to the text.

The following text fields are what comprise of User Data. If you have the Pro version, you can easily copy the data to all other nodes by clicking the copy to all nodes button.

Field	Copy to All Nodes (Pro)	Project User Data (Pro)
Title	Yes	Yes
Description	Yes	Yes
Author	Yes	Yes
Date and Time	Yes	Yes
Copyright	Yes	Yes
Source	Yes	Yes
Information	Yes	Yes
Comment	Yes	Yes
Custom Node ID	No	Yes
Capture Date and Time	Yes	No
Latitude	Yes	No
Longitude	Yes	No
Altitude	No	No
North	Yes	No
Tags	No	No

Edit Project User Data – Pano2VR Pro – This button will appear when there are multiple nodes in the Tour Browser. Clicking the button will open the Master Node and allow you to easily add user data to the whole project.

Click on the pencil icon to open a larger input field to enter more text.

The Project User Data can also be accessed with placeholders. Just add a p. For example, $(upt) for Title, instead of $(ut).

✭ If you’ve added Exif data to the corresponding fields, you can have them automatically populated. Go to Settings > Image Metadata, select Exif and/or XMP to import to the corresponding User Data fields.

The Project User Data’s Title will be used for the HTML page’s title.

To exit, select any node in the Tour Browser.

Capture Date and Time

Imports the image’s capture date and time. If the time and date changed at some point in the workflow, it can be changed here by selecting the correct date. This field will be used when uploading to Street View using the image’s Exif data assuming Date and Time Exif has been selected in Pano2VR’s settings.

Latitude and Longitude

For Latitude and Longitude, you can either manually add GPS coordinates or add location data by opening the tour map, search for the location and click the flag on the map. Your coordinates will be updated in the User Data.

Altitude

If altitude has been added to the metadata, then this field will be automatically filled. You can, however, manually add the altitude.

The satellite button retrieves elevation from Google. If you provided your API key in Pano2VR’s settings, you can use Google’s Maps Elevation API in your API key (this is not included in the the $200 credit, so an extra cost may apply).

To apply elevation data for an entire tour, not a single node, select all nodes in the tour in the tour browser, and then click the satellite button.

Clear will clear the altitude data of the selected node(s).

Select, Use altitude for automatic hotspots to apply altitude to ghost hotspots and auto-placed hotspots, both in the Viewer and in output. This setting is applied to the entire project, not just the current node.

North

Indicates North. If North was recorded by the camera, this will be automatically filled. If not, you can set North manually:

Setting North

North can be set by holding the N key and dragging the panorama to achieve the correct heading. If you have connected hotspots in Pano2VR Pro, you will see a thumbnail of that panorama to help guide placement.

✭ North can also be set using the Pick Landmark method from within the Tour Map.

Custom Node ID

Pano2VR Pro

Here you can create custom IDs for each node in a tour in Pano2VR Pro. For example, the custom ID can describe a room in a tour of a house. It can then be used in the URL to open a tour in a specific node: ../index.html#kitchen. To use, select Direct node access in the HTML Normal Template.

Placeholders can be used. For instance, you could go to Edit Project User Data, and put $(ut) into the Custom Node ID field to use the user data title as the custom node ID in each node.

Learn more about Direct Node Access.