Whiteboard functions - add color wheel, pen depth, shapes, and better zoom in/out flexibility

Steel Contributor

Can you please add functionality to the built-in Whiteboard app? We have had these units for over a year and clearly would benefit from a few minor updates that would add major capabilities:

 

Color selection - only being able to use Black, Red, Green, Blue, Purple is not sufficient. Please add the ability to enter or add custom colors, basic color wheel like MS Paint would be totally fine. 

 

Pen depth - same thing, just a quick drop-down that shows pencil thin vs. super thick lines, similar to MS Paint. 

 

Shapes - can we select basic 2D shapes like circle, square/rectangle, triangle, and even basic LINE drawing that can be used for easier/cleaner diagramming. Same as MS Paint. 

 

Finally, this is more just UI/UE but... the ability to zoom out or zoom in is significantly limited or finicky. We routinely have to zoom in at the start of the meeting (which makes the drawings too thick) to make sure we can expand later. Also on large drawings, there's not a way to Zoom OUT far enough to see the full drawing at once. 

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You might have better luck posting to the UserVoice site for Surface Hub (if they have one) as Microsoft teams tend to monitor those more closely than this forum.
Now that we have the new Whiteboard app, I think there are still some areas for improvement:

- Zoom level should be overlaid on screen when zooming
- Colour wheel is desperately needed, not enough colour choices!
- Multiple whiteboard pages within a whiteboard
- Timeline/revision checkpoints