Let renters move between floors on a shared plan

A plan with more than one level now has a proper way to get between them, and a faster way to draw them.

Portals

A Portal is a way through to another level of the same plan. Drop one at the top of a stair, at the lift doors, or at the hatch to a roof deck, and pick the level it leads to under Leads to. On the published page a renter taps it and arrives on that level.

It is the only thing on a plan that is a control rather than a description, so it is drawn to look like one: a pill carrying the name of where it goes, with a stair symbol and an arrowhead. The pill gets smaller as the plan is zoomed out, down to about half size, and past a point it drops the name and keeps the symbol. It stays easy to tap at any size without covering half a building.

Three things worth knowing:

• Portals are one way. A stair usually wants two, one upstairs pointing down and one downstairs pointing up. Placing one does not create the other.
• The name is what the pill says. A new portal takes the name of the level you point it at, so it reads "Second Floor" with no typing. Rename it and your name is kept, including if you later change where it leads.
• A portal with no destination is never published, nor is one whose level has since been deleted. A control a renter presses with nothing happening reads as a broken page, so it is left off the plan entirely rather than shown doing nothing.

Copy to level

With anything selected, Copy to level puts a copy of it on any other level of the drawing, and takes you there with the copy selected so you can carry on working on it.

The copy lands at exactly the same place, which is the point of it. Trace the building footprint on the grounds level, copy it up to the floor, and you have the real outline of the building to draw rooms inside instead of guessing at it. The same goes for a stairwell or a lift shaft that runs through every storey, or a guide line you want the floor above to line up with.

The copy is its own thing from the moment it is made, so editing it does not change the original and editing the original does not change it.