User`s manual
Table Of Contents
- Preliminary remarks
- Introduction
- New functions
- Installation
- Best practice
- Requirements
- Used ports
- Setup
- Upgrade from Apollo 1.3 to Apollo 1.4
- Upgrade from Apollo 1.4 to Apollo 1.4SR1
- Upgrading from Apollo 1.4 to Apollo 1.5
- Upgrading from Apollo 1.5 to Apollo 1.6
- Upgrading from Apollo 1.6 to Apollo 1.7
- Upgrading from Apollo 1.7 to Apollo 1.8
- Upgrading from Apollo 1.8 to Apollo 1.9
- Upgrading the Display Wall configuration
- Control Room Configurator
- Viewer
- Concept
- Apollo 1.9 Viewers
- Limitations
- Memory requirements (minimal RAM size)
- Communication memory
- Requirements
- Steps required to configure the FRG Viewer
- Steps required to configure the Visu Viewer
- Steps required to configure the Cottus Viewer
- Steps required to configure the VNC Viewer
- Steps required to configure the ProViewer
- Steps required to configure the Web Viewer
- Steps required to configure the MPEG Viewer
- Steps required to configure the VTplus Viewer
- Launching Viewer
- Controlling Viewers
- VNC Viewer
- Explorer
- Starting the Explorer
- Explorer User Interface
- Object Tree
- Source Tree View
- Explorer workspace
- Explorer menu bar
- Help menu
- Remote Desktop menu
- Layout Selector menu
- Explorer tool bar
- Device Manager in the Explorer
- Explorer Context Menu
- Drag&Drop functionality
- Layout Editor
- Desktop Server
- Project Backup
- Command Interface
- Device command Interface
- Desktop command Interface
- Viewer command Interface
- Apollo Explorer command interface
- Apollo Layout Editor command interface
- Apollo Layout Selector command interface
- Apollo Remote Desktop command interface
- Apollo Database Convertor command interface
- Apollo Window Detector command interface
- Control Room Bus services
- Control Room Bus
- Serial command interface
- TCPIP command interface
- Application management
- License management
- Time synchronization
- Log file
- Security Provider
- Defining accessGroups
- Configuration of restricted objects
- Permissions
- Restrictions for regions
- Restrictions for layouts
- Restrictions for shortcuts
- Restrictions for advanced menus
- Window Properties|Description
- Window Properties|Sizable
- Window Properties|Always on Top
- Window Properties|Visible
- Edit|Invisible Windows
- Edit|Keyboardinput
- Edit|CommandLine
- Edit|Permissions
- Edit|SaveLayout
- Customized configuration and uninstallation of Apollo
- Soap API Service
- Appendix
- Hotline

6. Viewer
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6.9 Placeholders for In Display Caption Texts
Placeholders can be specified for In Display Caption
In Display CaptionIn Display Caption
In Display Caption texts, which then display current system parameters during
operation.
The following table lists placeholders that apply to all viewers:
Warning: Placeholder names are case sensitive!!
Placeholder Description
%SourceRequested% The CRB (control room bus) name of the source to be displayed. This
name has been defined in the ServerData\viewersources.ini file.
This placeholder normally corresponds with the %SourceConnected%
placeholder
%SourceConnected% CRB name of the source currently displayed. For predefined sources,
this name has been defined in the ServerData\viewersources.ini file.
For non-predefined sources, the name can freely be assigned to using
this parameter
%SourceCaption% Suitable name for the currently displayed source
%SourceTitle% A title assigned to the source is depicted.
%Description% Suitable name of the viewer instance
%Date% Current date
%Time% Current time
%Status% Connection status or status of data stream after connection has been
established.
Status display description:
Not connected (viewer waits for the control room bus); viewer is active
but cannot be controlled in this state.
Unknown source: The name of the source is unknown to the control
room bus.
Connecting ... : Waiting for the source object
Unknown resource: (e.g., incorrect Visu input card, wrong channel with
BigVideo, Quadvideo, RGB input cards, wrong workstation (Cottus), etc.
Resource unavailable (the corresponding source is already controlled by
another server within the Apollo network)