Process & Storing 360 TOURS 


For US:


In the US, we put the tours online only after we have the listing ID.

We insist on having the listing id before. This is the safest way to not overwrite any past tours and avoid errors.


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Then for organizing:



  1. In Dropbox in the route “US_PRODUCTION / Tour / WIP / “the folder of the current month” we create a folder named: “company initials”_ “order number”_“street_address_unit_number_city”_”date” and we drop the pano file from Desk.        Result: CSG_514320_16_Hudson_St_6E_NYC_0405

  2. Create folder "From Desk” and move the pano file into it. Don’t edit/change anything on the original files coming from desk.

  3. Make a copy of “From Desk” and rename the new folder into “Source”

Result = > Source

  1. Make edits (If needed) on the 360s TIFF files on “source”.

  2. Open KrPano

    1.  Drag / drop TIFF files onto first section “Make VTour”

    2.  “vtour” folder is automatically created.

    3. Drop the file “tour.xml” created on vtour folder into the second section on KrPano “VTour Editor” and select  “Start up View” / Add hotspots if needed  / “Save Tour”

  3. Rename "vtour" folder into “company initials”_“street_address_unit_number_city”_”date”        Result: CSG_16_Hudson_St_6E_NYC_0405

  4. Upload the folder CSG_16_Hudson_St_6E_NYC_0405 to ftp. “USA_Tour_Upload” we drop it on “listings”

  5. We Copy URL from  “tour.html” and paste into a browser window

  6. Add at the end “?initvars.design=” and the code of the company at the end (if you dont have company code use "finn"

  7. Remove th beggining of the url sftp://productionteam@ec2-50-16-150-202.compute-1.amazonaws.com

  8. Replaced for "tours.h5property.com/tour/"

  9. Erase at the beginning https://tours.



Result: tours.h5property.com/tour/listings/CCR_510290_373_Wythe_Ave_1E_BKN/tour.html?initvars.design=finn

  1. Copy the resulting URL in PhotoApp.





For Norway:



  1. Make edits (If needed) in Lightroom and export to JPEG full resolution file to a folder with the name PANO inside the original order folder.

  2. Rename the new JPEG file with the name of the actual space, IE. STUE (living room).

  3. Open KrPano (red icon):

    1. Drag / drop JPEG files onto the main window section “Make VTour”

    2. “vtour” folder is automatically created inside the PANO folder that was originally created.

    3. Drag & drop the file “tour.xml” created on v tour folder into the VTOUR EDITOR section on KrPano

    4. Once you´ve dropped the XML file into KrPAno, select a symetrical star-up view. Make sure to align vertical and horizontal axis as best as possible. Once the view is centered, select  “Set as Start up View” / Add hotspots if needed  / “Save Tour XML” 

    5. Close program.

  4. Rename the pano folder with the order name as is in dropbox including the name of the editor. Example: EM_22584_Oscars_gate_50(Guillem)

  5. Move that folder into Dropbox/ H5Property / NO_PRODUCTION_H5 / Tour / WIP / The current month.

  6. Rename replacing the editors name for the day of today. 

    following this code: company initials_order number_street_address_unit_number_city_date.

    Example: EM_22584_Oscars_gate_50_(Guillem) to EM_22584_Oscars_gate_50_0504

  1. Inside the this folder folder that was renamed in the last step, rename vtour folder into  company initials_street_address_unit_number_city_date. Make sure to delete the INTERNAL order number.

Result: EM_Oscars_gate_50_0504

  1. Upload the most recent folder EM_Oscars_gate_50_0504 to ftp server: “NO_Tour_Upload” / Tour / we drop the folder on the folder named “NO”.

  2. Go to the most recently uploaded folder inside the NO server folder and locate the  “tour.html” file. Once located right click and select  COPY URL TO CLIPBOARD; paste into a browser window. DO NOT CLICK ENTER.

  3. At the end of the URL add the following code:  ?initvars.design=  and the code of the company at the end in LOWERCASE LETTERS, if it is not lowercase, it will not add the company logo.

  4. In the URL replace the following: sftp://support_no@ftp with the word `tour.´

Result: tours.h5property.com/tour/no/EM_Oscars_gate_50_0504/tour.html?initvars.design=em

  1. Copy the resulting URL in PhotoApp. Locate the order numbe. Once located look for the TOUR 360 URL field. Paste the URL into this field. 



12. Once the URL is added, add the number of positions to this tour. 1 position means there is only 1 view or 1 room.  Click UPDATE.

Compressing tour folders (US & Norway)


1. Ensure that the Dropbox Folder that contains all the tours is “available offline” in your computer this way we assure that any action we do will contain all the information and can be reverted.

Right click and choose “Make available offline”

Wait until the Dropbox icon in the top right area of your computer shows it as not synchronising.



2. On Dropbox, go to the next route: NO_PRODUCTION / Photography / Tour / WIP / the month we are working on.

  • Select the folder or folders that you want to compress and drag and drop into: 

    • “Archive Utility” (compressing utility by default on MacOS)

(The first time you have to set the app to compress in .ZIP format and it will keep like that)

  • WinRaR (free utility on PC)


3. Delete the original folders leaving the compressed ones.




4. Select all the compressed folders and move them onto the folder in the same route for that month_Readyfor Backup”