Suggestions for Community Info Board - Best Practices

[James]

If you were designing an info board for a specific location with one or two duplicating screens, what would recommend to have the least inpact on your time to accomplish such things as changes and scheduling.

The idea is to have the Info Board manager call with a new item they want to announce, like a day trip. The events are always changing and, of course, have limited time value. You don't want to be playing events that are over.

Do you create a standard campaign and add timelines for each event and manually pull the events that are over? Do you create a new campaign for the event and use scheduler to add a higher priority event? What if there are two events to choose from but overlapping times? One event may be going on for a month, another for only a day during that same month. Another for two weeks during that same month and part of the next month.

Do you see what I am getting at? There are so many options in MediaSignage, but what would be the least amount of work for the VAR, that can be repeated over and over as events come up, and go past?

James

[James]

Another example might be a jobs posting board. Jobs come and go at different times. Some are posted longer. Some are posted only foro a specific time.

Suggestions?

[admin]

Hi James,
I would create a single campaign.
And create many timelines. Standard Timelines (which don't change) and temp timelines.
I would set the Standard  to repeat with low priority (Sceduler) and use the temp that happen at specific times with high priority to oberride the Standard timelines...

Regards,

Sean - MediaSignage.com

[James]

Thanks for the suggestion, but not sure how I could scehdule more than one thing to play at a time. I think this needs to move to a wish list item.

We need a component that is time based. An time based component that plays announcements or images or whatever we throw at it, according to the dates we set it to show.

We would drag the "timer" component into the scene, then on the right panel, we would have options to put other resources (or even other components) into it. It would have a way to populate the component with resources and the dates, times you want them to play. If the resource time had passed the current time, the resource did not play and the timer component would play the next resource that had a matching time duration.

This way, I could put a timer component in a scene, populate it with images that changed at certain times. Or I could fill the timer component with different label components that were job listing that would play in order until the job posting time limit had past.

Similar to the custom RSS component, but image if we could say what date, time and duration the items appeared.

James

[ANOOP]

Since we dont have an option of having both scheduler and sequence mode; we should have the feature of concantenating (adding the timelines). Say i have 10 timelines which i need to run one after the other and keep that in low priority and 2 or 3 time lines which i run at scheduled time with higher priority, if i have to make all the 10 time lines as a part of the scheduler and say they are all 2 to 3 minutes timeline then i will have to add them into the timeline atleast 8 times for me to complete the 24 hrs. If i have the timeline adding feature then i could just put it once and then stretch it for the whole 24 hours

[admin]

I think I have just the thing for you guys...
In release 1.9 we have "Common Channels" so you don't have to duplicate timeline's content.
Think of it as a channel that can appear in all Campaign timelines.
It should ease the Scheduled setup.

Eddie - MediaSignage.com