Signage Manager Software User Manual
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Contents 1. Overview 1.1 Content management Overview.................................................... 1 2. Installation 2.1 Minimum system requirements..................................................... 2 2.2 Setup process............................................................................... 2 3. UI Overview 3.1 Main Menu..................................................................................... 3 3.2 Template List....................................................................
.3.4 Edit schedule for a specific period.......................................................20 4.3.5 Add presentations to an event ............................................................20 4.3.6 Schedule priority .................................................................................21 4.3.7 Add presentations to an event ............................................................22 4.3.8 Duplicate a presentation to an event ...................................................24 4.3.
1. Overview Welcome to Signage Manager, an easy and simple way to manage digital signage content for ViewSonic digital signage media players. The Signage Manager software is designed to be easy to use by leveraging the power of your personal computer. Anyone with basic computer skills can quickly create or modify content playback schedules, using Signage Manager to deliver the right message to the right audience at the right times. 1.
2. Installation 2.1 Minimum system requirements Windows Vista, 7 or 8 Operating System .DirectX 9 .NET Framework 4 2.6 GHz CPU 2 GB of system memory 20 GB hard drive space 2.2 Setup process Run the installer and follow the step by step instructions. Close the installer to finish installation.
3. UI Overview 3.1 Main Menu The main menu is composed of a list of existing playlists and a list of players available for playlist assignment. You can drag players into/out of a playlist to make it associated/ unassociated with the playlist. Double click a playlist to edit it. 3 Tool bar -Language option\ -Tools -Help information Playlist name field and Playlist create button List of existing Playlists 4 Playlist preview and info 5 6 The associated players of the playlist Player list 7 Player name
3.3 Presentation Editor Presentation editor allows you to edit all the media content: text, pictures and video in a presentation.
3.4 Schedule Editor Schedule Editor helps you create flexible playlist containing multiple presentations which will play automatically according to pre-defined events (time slots). 1 Add event schedule 2 Existing events 3 Event information Time slot Event Day/Date Event Type Add new presentation to current event Existing presentations in current event Presentation information Thumbnail Duration 4 5 6 3.5 Event Editor Event Editor lets you define how and when you want the event to take place.
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4. Basic Operations 4.1 Create Playlist 4.1.1 Create Playlist 1. Input a playlist name and then click “Create playlist” 2.
4.1.2 Edit from existing playlist Double click on an existing playlist to edit. 4.1.3 Duplicate existing playlist Click on Duplicate button of an existing playlist to copy the playlist.
4.2 Edit Presentation 4.2.1 Add looping playback media items by drag and drop Select a zone then simply drag and drop media from file explorer to the zone. 4.2.2 Add looping playback media items from panel 1. Select a region then expending the option panel. 2. Add new image/video/powerpoint/widget and edit their attributes. Click to add more media to the zone Click to add special media to the zone: Widget A/V input Note: Drag and drop to change the playback order.
4.2.3 Edit image 1. Move mouse around the template, editable area will be highlighted. 2. Click to start editing. 3. You can replace the default image, zoom-in/out and adjust the focus. Click confirm when you are done.
4. Playback duration and other options can be configured from Option dialog, to launch the Option dialog: • double click on media item • click right mouse button and select Option. Note: To select multiple items, click the first item, press and hold down the Ctrl key, and then click the next item.
4.2.4 Edit video 1. Add video files to a region, a video thumbnail will show in the region. 2. Choose to fit inside the region or stretch video to the region. : Fit inside : Stretch Note: Only ONE zone is allowed to contain video files. Note: Double click the video to preview the playback in Windows application.
4.2.5 Edit PowerPoint file 1. Add powerpoint file to a zone and click on the item to start editing. 2. Choose to fit inside the zone or stretch PowerPoint to the zone. : Fit inside : Stretch Note: Export PowerPoint slides (in static only) if you have PowerPoint 2003/2007/2010/2013 installed in same computer.
4.2.6 Edit Logo 1. Click on LOGO icon to edit LOGO (LOGO only supported in limited Templates). 2. You can replace the image, zoom-in/out and adjust the focus. Click confirm when you are done. 4.2.7 Edit Widget Add widget files to a region and click on the item to start editing.
4.2.8 Adding Ticker Choose one of the empty templates to use ticker in the Tools panel, check Ticker to enable it Select a preferred ticker mode from one of the options: • Personal text: to display text content from a .txt file • Widget: to display a widget in the ticker zone (ex. RSS widget or custom widgets) Configurable options File Options Path to the .
After enabling the ticker, you can: 1. Change the location of the ticker to Bottom or Top 2. Adding more .
4.2.9 Edit text 1. Editable text will get highlighted with yellow box when hovering on it. Click the text to start editing. 2. Expand option to change font type, size and color. 3. If the text belongs to a text group, changing its style would affect on all text in the same group.
4.2.10 Switch theme and Toggle logo display Expand Tools panel to toggle logo display and choose a different color theme. Toggle Logo display Change color theme in one click 4.2.11 Adding background music Background music only works with image/PowerPoint presentation. If presentation contains video, an information message will show up to ask user to remove video from presentation before adding background music.
4.3 Edit Schedule Click Edit schedule to enter schedule editor. 4.3.1 Edit text 1. Click Add event schedule 2. Edit the event schedule 3. Select template 4. Edit the newly added presentation 1. Specify event name 2. Choose an event type • Presentation • Screen off 3. Select recurrence type and the day 4.
4.3.2 Edit weekly schedule Check/uncheck the weekdays: 4.3.3 Edit monthly schedule Enter days separated by comma “,” or period connected by dash “-“, for example: 1, 5, 9, 15-18 will play on 1st, 5th, 9th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th of each month. 4.3.4 Edit schedule for a specific period Pick start and end day form the calendar 4.3.5 Add presentations to an event 1. Click Add presentation 2. Select template 3.
4.3.6 Schedule priority Default presentation Specific day(s) 1 Monthly 1 Weekly 1 Specific day(s) 2 Monthly 2 Weekly 2 Default presentation is the initial schedule which is defaulted to play 24/7.It has lowest priority, will be surpass whenever there are overlapping with other schedule. As shown on diagram above, specific day(s) event has the highest priority of playback when schedules are overlapping, Monthly schedule has 2nd highest priority then it's weekly schedule.
4.3.7 Add presentations to an event 1. Click Add presentation. 2. Select template.
3. Edit the newly added presentation. When looping presentation has more than 1 presentation, duration box will appear. Click on Presentation duration number(300) to change duration, default duration is 300 seconds.
4.3.8 Duplicate a presentation to an event 1. Right click a presentation and select "Duplicate to" 2. Select a destination: - Current schedule - An existing schedule - New event schedule 4.3.9 Duplicate an event 1. Right click a schedule and select "Duplicate or click duplicate button of a schedule" 2. Edit schedule of new event 3.
4.3.10 Adding trigger event Enable event trigger and add trigger to current presentation Trigger Event lets you to add event trigger into presentation, the trigger source can be touch button event and motion sensor event from ePoster, or input event from GPIO board.
4.4 Export Playlist 4.4.1 Export playlist via USB Click export button and click Export to USB, and then select the correct location for export. Note: Signage Manager will remember your action, so next time you only need to click ‘Save’ to export. 4.4.2 Export playlist via Network 1. Click export button and click Export to player.
2. Scan devices on your network or add them by typing their IPs. Note: If a player is already associated with another playlist, it will not show in this list, please search by its IP address. 3. Select devices for export. 4. After export, the selected players will be associated with this playlist. 5.
4.4.3 Player association After export, the players are associated with the playlist and will be listed under the playlist in the main menu. You can also assign player to playlist by dragging player and drop to playlist in the main menu.
4.5 Serial protocol (RS232) configuration 1. Go to Tool → Edit serial protocol (RS232) 2. To create new protocol or select existing protocol. 3. To select Baud rate.
4. To select Send EOL message. 5. To key-in Commands. 6. To save & select new protocol or select existing protocol directly. 7. To set the Screen off schedule. For example, screen off schedule is 20:00→08:00, device will send Video off command at 20:00, and send Video on command at 08:00 to RS232 port.
4.6 Firmware Update 1. Go to Help → Firmware update, select the Firmware package and click OK 2. Select the player you need to update.
Other Information Customer Support For technical support or product service, see the table below or contact your reseller. NOTE: You will need the product serial number. Country/Region Website T = Telephone C = CHAT ONLINE Email Australia New Zealand www.viewsonic.com.au AUS= 1800 880 818 NZ= 0800 008 822 service@au.viewsonic.com Canada www.viewsonic.com T (Toll-Free)= 1-866-463-4775 T (Toll)= 1-424-233-2533 service.ca@viewsonic.com Europe www.viewsoniceurope.com www.viewsoniceurope.
