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1. 0 cece eee teens 37 Network and Player Management 20000 37 Manage Groups nici obi atdi heeds heres negha bead 37 Manage Players 056 0 sec tepo t entat tsk ee behav bee E Eaa 39 Delete Offline Players 000 e eee eee ee 40 Create New Network 00 c eee e eee eee eee eens 41 Delete Network 0 0 c cece cece tenes 41 Manage Users ioiii ee dave at dean Laan eterna 42 Download Agent Setup 000s 43 Broadcast Message 00 00 e eee eee 43 Network Pa e ceser ien wireinbetchine sn bid oy bite aire bb e heb aaia 44 Manager List 22 02ciio2tssaeedahoretoleieesetedesdeess 44 CONMECHONG sides cee esas eee ede Le eRe ER oe eee 45 Player Status 0 2002 hack ae bee hlon DIAPERS oE neds ORDE aeons 46 2 Polycom Inc Contents DCrECNSNOIUS mereri ra E E Mee kame weamee eee ee ele 47 System IMG ioe eis eS Se bE Re Ee PESER eee 48 Network Packages 0 00 e eee eee eee eee ee 49 Remote Player Management Console 00 eee eee eee 50 Tools MENU 4ccccan cree beni eeee teas ope bin OH end eorsnle E 51 TOOL B r Sis idaiscthin Meee eek Soe Ch eda TOES MESES 51 Start Process os cs eccnsecneeee cht een EPERE ENEE EATE reais 51 Pile Manager s oriei cise cis ah esis a aa a hes a R 52 TRE OE dts sat csv cleo tthe cect tae eit Deceit Tee Gilg Mtb edd RRR 52 Set LICENSE sez rrebrp kinei unes e sae thule ni e niit 52 Monitoring Settings
2. 6 cece eee 53 Edit CONES 450 0 rente apine seed E RAST anew aoa ea gee saat 54 Restart Polycom Player sn ns unnnnrn runnen rnern renra 54 Playlista nren erea ine e Gaus Maem ne ab anA 54 Command errory sorton te oaea T EE ERA ENET 54 Status Detail Panel 20 6 cs cug ds ste de ceed OANE EEEIEE RTE EERS 55 Player Status 3 210306 cia eee os cilia awa ate 55 Running Processes ses ccescenecs ithe a eeese ie hbeee ese peel EY 56 Windows Services ernerkssenertiniri nonii titeni eei kikai nia 57 Fil Mania gers eccick bind oak tene on e a cere ees 58 4 Using the Web Controller eeeeeees 61 About the PDS Web Controller 0 00 e eee eee eee 61 Installing the Web Controller 0 00 00 e eee eee eee ee eee 62 Pre Installation Procedures on Windows Vista and Windows 7 62 Installation 23 4 6 235 66e500de sence s dean EREEREER S 62 Opening the Web Controller 0 64 Licensing the Web Controller 000 0000005 65 Web Controller Interface Guide 00 66 Main Panel ii 2 cites meet onda bind nite E a 67 Player Monitor Panel 0 00 000 e eee eee eee 68 Events Panels ccine cored asia E EE ET eee uae Wea eae 69 Changing the Layout 0 eee 70 Diy lene E E E E EO a wacked 70 Control Panel sess ives resor istin tenti nding renin ee EEEE EREE 71 Player Controls 23 56 si eens e hea dies ni batti poe nerus 71 Selection Wizar
3. Render PowerPoint Slide Settings License Manager In the PDS Player choose Tools gt VertigoCG gt Start The CG rendering window appears When ready to stop the CG rendering engine choose Tools gt VertigoCG gt Stop 4 The CG rendering window disappears Using VertigoCG The VertigoCG renderer allows direct configuration via a control interface if enabled in the PDS Player Renderer Settings When the VertigoCG rendering engine launches a small interface launches A Vertigo Software CG Connected l pN Disconnect Exit Control Panel Local Host Name PDSPlayer3 IP 10 1 195 53 Port 4000 1 The Load feature allows you to directly load xml files in the CG Renderer Click Disconnect to disconnect the renderer from the Player Click Exit to close the Renderer Polycom Inc 25 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Controlling the VertigoCG Renderer 4 Click Control Panel to launch the VertigoCG Control Panel CG Control Panel Hardware Settings Software Settings Direct3D Device dapter TY Format ATI Radeon HD 3450 Dell Optiples CUSTOM bi Audio Capture Device h Microphone SoundMAX Integr v f I Fullscreen I Show FPS Output Video iz M wh IV Always on top 2 i Cancel Hardware Settings allow users to choose a video card device for output select video and audio capture devices whether to display the Renderer in full screen
4. Name of VBScript function to execute when Run Script on Change is set to True Perform action on change If set to True execute action whenever the text is dynamically updated Define Actions button Opens the Action Editor dialog box to create actions associated with dynamic text Working with Objects Polycom Inc Inserting Objects on a Slide When designing your slides you can insert object styles on your slides You can use any of these objects as a baseline and then modify color contrast and other properties to suit the design of your presentation To apply an object style to a PowerPoint object 1 2 In the Style Browser choose Objects from the Type box From the Category box choose the category of objects that best suit the design of the slide In the Style Browser select an object and right click From the menu choose Insert Object The object is inserted on the slide You can also click and drag the object into place on the PowerPoint slide As you drag a graphical representation appears representing the object and the object s proportions relative to the slide 139 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Working with Animations Working with Object Groups Individual slide elements can be grouped together and treated as a single object When you use the Group command to group objects you combine them so you can work with them as though they were a single object You can flip rotate
5. The Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide is part of the Polycom Digital Signage documentation set which includes Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide This document Polycom Digital Signage Server Getting Started Guide Describes set up and installation of the Polycom Digital Signage Server Polycom Digital Signage Player Getting Started Guide Describes set up and installation of the Polycom Digital Signage Player Polycom Digital Signage Content Management Guide Describes publication of content via the Polycom Digital Signage Web Controller This document is intended for Polycom Digital Signage Content Managers Polycom Digital Signage Release Notes Describes the product release This document also identifies known problems and their workarounds information not covered in the manuals or that has been modified since publication as well as problems that have been fixed since previous releases Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Customer Support Audience This guide is primarily for e Polycom Digital Signage Administrators Responsible for configuring and managing the Polycom appliance You should have a working knowledge of media publication peripheral ports network protocols and media streaming and editing You should also be familiar with Web fundamentals such as URLs and HTML Customer Support Recognizing that technology alone cannot solve today s complex challenges Polycom Global S
6. Fil Program Settings Category Settings Advanced Video Settings Startup Settings Options Renderer IP Address 127 0 0 1 Connection Delay secs 0 Show clip filenames on output T Skip playlist events if parameter assets missing Renderer Exe Filename VertigoCG2exe v Output Folder Cache Folder Template Folder Command Folder auc GEN Player Mode Standad Interactive Window Pos 0 YPos 0 Width 1280 Height 720 URL Loader Window Pos 0 YPos 0 0K Cancel Apply Renderer Settings The Renderer Settings options of Advanced Program Settings are described as follows Renderer IP Address Displays the IP address of the rendering engine Renderer Executable Filename Displays the executable filename that corresponds to the PDS rendering engine e Connection Delay Displays the delay in seconds from the time you click the Render button until the scene is submitted CG rendering engine File Locations The File Locations configuration in Advanced Program Settings allow users to dictate which directories the PDS Player uses Output folder Displays the folder to which the CG Renderer sends rendered output that is displayed in the output monitor e Cache folder Displays the folder to which the CG Renderer caches information while rendering the output e Template folder Displays the default folder to which the PDS Player saves exported templates Polycom Inc 13 Pol
7. Contact Polycom Support before making changes to any element not detailed NOTE All other elements of the XPT ini file should not need to be user configured G above 11 When complete click Save to Players 204 Polycom Inc Changing Output Settings with the XPT ini Configuration File Appendix C Configuration Files 12 In the Select Target Players dialog that appears indicate to which Players you wish to save the changed configuration file Click OK 13 The Request window will appear The file will update and the configuration changes should apply 14 If configuration changes do not apply immediately enter RESTART in the Command space of the Remote Player Management Console The Player will restart and the changes will have been applied Polycom Inc 205 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Changing Output Settings with the XPT ini Configuration File 206 Polycom Inc
8. Object width in pixels Height Object height in pixels Update Effect Specifies transition effect to use when object is updated dynamically Render on output must be enabled The following options are available Cut No effect is applied This is the default setting Fade Fades up the image as the slide is updated Crossfade Fades between the last state of the image and the updated image ScaleX Stretches the object along its width X axis ScaleY Stretches the object along its height Y axis ScaleXY Stretches the object proportionately along its width and height X axis and Y axis are scaled The resulting effect looks as though the image is approaching the viewer from or flying away into the background Effect Speed Speed of Update Effect transition The following options are available Slow Effect proceeds at a slow pace Fast Effect proceeds at a fast pace After adding a text box to a slide in the PowerPoint section of the Template Maker interface users can configure the text further using the tools in companion window Users can also add new text Polycom Inc Adding and Editing Text Images and Media Using Template Maker Polycom Inc Applying a Text Style With the Text Style Browser you can apply text styles to text in text objects and create a text object from an existing text style To apply a text style to a PowerPoint object 1 Create a text bo
9. Polycom Template Maker supports many image formats not importable into Microsoft PowerPoint alone This includes many 32 bit image formats such as TGA TIF and Adobe Photoshop PSD image files These assets should be imported into PowerPoint using Template Maker menu options and not using the PowerPoint menu options To import an image directly onto a slide do the following Select the slide in PowerPoint 121 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Adding and Editing Text Images and Media 2 On the Template Maker toolbar click the Insert Image button The Select File dialog box appears Tm Select File all Folders File List View Report v 5 O Images Name Size Type Date H countdown D countdown File Folder 6 22 2 Content Library 9 All Files File name Files of type Al Image Files bmp ipg png gif tga tif tiff psd vpb p v 3 To import an image from the preconfigured Content Library select the Content Library icon and browse to select an image and click OK The selected image appears on the slide 4 To import an image from another location on your system select the All Files icon and browse to select an image and click OK The selected image appears on the slide To insert an image via the Style Browser 1 Select Images from the Type drop down menu 2 Browse for images via the dialog below When the image you wish to add appears in the Style
10. e NewText The string to substitute in place of the SearchText string Examples The following rule replaces all occurrences of Goofy in the Characters container with Pluto lt ParsingRule Type Replace Source Characters Result NoGoofy gt lt SearchText gt Goofy lt SearchText gt lt NewText gt P1luto lt NewText gt lt ParsingRule gt The following rule removes all occurrences of stars in the Galaxy container lt ParsingRule Type Replace Source Galaxy Result DarkMatter gt lt SearchText gt stars lt SearchText gt lt NewText gt lt NewText gt lt ParsingRule gt Polycom Inc Parsing Rule Reference Guide Polycom Inc Appendix B Data Parser ReplaceCharacterCodes The ReplaceCharacterCodes rule replaces all occurrences of various HTML character codes with their true characters Parameters None Example lt ParsingRuleType ReplaceCharacterCodes Source SomeSource Result Capitalized gt ReplaceTag The ReplaceTag rule replaces the text that occurs between a pair of strings Parameters e StartTag taggable The starting delimiter of the text to replace e EndTag taggable The ending delimiter of the text to replace e NewText taggable The replacement text e Index optional Which occurrence of the delimited text to replace Example If the BigString container contains A or B or C or D then the following rule places A or B or baseball or D into the C
11. CAWindow O Searchindexer 16 536 K 160 300K 2428 C Window C SearchProtocolHost 8 944 K 74 092K 4732 C Window O SecureUpgrade 8 800 K 129 188K 3968 C Program O services 5 904 K 38 424K 648 C Window CSLsve 3 828 K 50 004K 1260 C Window vy lt rm gt The Running Processes tab functions as a process manager for the remote Player e To stop a process running on the PDS Player right click on the process and click Kill Process J Kill Process Polycom Inc Remote Player Management Console Windows Services WD Player Status O Running Processes Windows Services File Manager Using the Remote Manager Service Name 2 AeLookupSve ALG E Appinfo El AppMamt 2 Ati Extemal Event Utility El AudioE ndpointBuilder 2 Audiosry l BFE sits Browser CertPropS vce 2 cl_optimization_v2 0 5 2 COMSysApp E CryptSve E CscService 2 DeomLaunch DFSR Be Dhep 2 Dnscache E dat3sve pPs 2 EapHost 2 EMDMamt El Eventlog E EventSystem 2 Fax E fdPHost FDResPub E FontCache3 0 0 0 El apsve El hidserv Display Name Application Experience Application Layer Gateway Service Application Information Application Management Ati External Event Utility Windows Audio Endpoint Builder Windows Audio Base Filtering Engine Background Intelligent Transfer Computer Browser Certificate Propagation Microsoft NET Framework NGE COM System A
12. Data Source Tutorial Polycom Inc Appendix B Data Parser topmargin 0 rightmargin 0 marginwidth 0 marginheight 0 bgcolor FFFFFF background images wtf gray_background gif gt lt table cellspacing 0 cellpadding 0 border 0 width 670 background images wtf topbanner jpg gt lt tr gt lt td height 19 gt amp nbsp amp nbsp amp nbsp lt td gt lt tr gt lt table gt lt table cellspacing 0 cellpadding 0 border 0 width 670 gt lt tr valign top gt lt td rowspan 2 gt lt a href http www noaa gov gt lt img src images wtf noaaleft jpg alt NOAA logo Click to go to the NOAA homepage title NOAA logo Click to go to the NOAA homepage width 85 height 78 border 0 gt lt a gt lt td gt lt td height 20 gt lt img src images wtf forecast_title jpg alt Your National Weather Service forecast title Your National Weather Service forecast width 500 height 20 border 0 gt lt td gt lt td rowspan 2 align right gt lt a href http weather gov gt lt img src images wtf nwsright jpg alt NWS logo title NWS logo width 85 height 78 border 0 gt lt a gt lt td gt lt tr gt lt tr align center gt lt td background images wtf forecast_blank jpg height 57 class whitel gt New York NY lt a href contents gt lt img src images wtf skipgraphic gif alt Skip to Detailed 7 Day Forecast title Skip to Detailed 7 Day Forecast width 1 height 1 border 0 g
13. In the HTML we ve isolated each cell of the table row contains the forecast for a day part For example the cell contains the forecast for Today we ve reformatted the code below to make it easier to see the forecast data lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Today lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt imgsrc images wtf tsra70 jpg width 55 height 58 alt Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 70 title Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 70 gt lt br gt Heavy lt br gt Rain lt br gt Hi lt font color FFOO00 gt 81 F lt font gt lt td gt Each cell contains the day part s name e g Today the conditions as the image s alternative text e g Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 70 the temperature e g 81 F and an image file e g images wtf tsra70 jpg We ll extract each of these pieces of information in turn First we need to isolate a given day part s table cell We do this using a GetTag rule to isolate the text between the lt td gt and lt td gt tags lt ParsingRule type GetTag Source Source result DaySource gt lt StartTag gt amp lt td lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp 1t td amp gt lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt The GetTag rule is index aware so because it is inside a lt Dataltem gt element it will extract each table cell in turn We used the lt Dataltem gt element to apply its rules 9 times so this GetTag rule will extract
14. Only custom implementations support changes to capture settings e Video Capture Filter Select the device for inputting video to the PDS Player This list depends on the video devices connected to the workstation e Video Crossbar Setting Select the port for the video input to the workstation for example SVideo In or Composite In e Audio Capture Filter Select the device for inputting audio This list depends on the audio card and audio devices connected to the workstation for example SoundMAX Digital Audio e Audio Crossbar Setting Select the port for the audio input to the workstation TV Tuner Channel Select the channel to tune to when capturing from a TV Tuner card Select channel 0 if no TV Tuner card is present Startup Settings The PDS Player Startup Settings tab is divided into two sections Startup Properties and Startup Options 8 Polycom Inc Startup Settings Configuring the PDS Player Settings defined in Startup Properties let you specify templates or scripts that may load when PDS Player initially launches as well as application functions that may occur when PDS Player initially launches Category Settings Startup Settings Video Settings Startup Settings Options Advanced Default Background Template or Default Playlist 1 Startup Propertie Default Foreground Template for Default Playlist 2 Startup Image Filename Startup Script Filename Startup Optior Load previously loaded p
15. To modify the contents of the text box from Template Maker do the following 120 Polycom Inc Adding and Editing Text Images and Media Using Template Maker Working with Images Polycom Inc a Inthe Text Properties tab of the selected text box click the Text field The entire string of text is highlighted b Enter the text you wish to place into the text box c Press Enter Enable Antialiasing When set to true edges of text are smoothed Use CG Text If set to True use the PDS CG rendering engine to render text This option must be set to true for dynamic text objects such as tickers Some PowerPoint text formatting may be lost NOTE Template Maker may automatically adjust the Use CG Text setting based on the operations specified in other dialog boxes Run Script on Change If set to True execute script functions whenever the text is dynamically updated Script Module Name of VBScript module containing the script function Script Function Name of VBScript function to execute when Run Script on Change is set to True Run Action on Change If set to True execute action whenever the text is dynamically updated Define Actions button Opens the Action Editor dialog box to create actions associated with dynamic text Set Format String Opens the Format String dialog to automatically format or replace characters in the text box whenever the text is dynamically updated Inserting Images
16. click Delete Current Playlist 8 When all configuration changes have been made click Save to save the Playlist within the Web Controller 9 Click Distribute to send the Playlist to the selected target Players 10 Click Load on Player s to load the Playlist on the selected target Players Adding Content through the Playlist Editor Polycom Inc Content Directory Prior to making changes to PDS Player content by means of the PDS Web Controller content managers should create a central directory for all video text and PowerPoint files intended for distribution to PDS Players These directories must reside on the C drive of the computer running the Web Controller For situations in which a single content manager is responsible for all content distributed on a network Polycom recommends creating the directory C Content For implementations in which multiple content managers oversee the same network we recommend creating the directory C ContentManagerName If properly configured on the computer running the Web Controller this directory will automatically be created on the target players during the Playlist publication process NOTE Data files that supply information for the various Trivia News and Weather templates must reside in the C XPresenterC ontent Data directory The processes for updating these files are outlined in subsequent sections below 79 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Playlist Edito
17. gt lt Layer gt SETTEXT lt Object name gt lt Layer 0 or 1 gt lt New text gt lt Process render queue True or False optional default True gt SETVISIBLE lt Object name gt lt Layer gt lt Visible True False gt SETVOLUME lt Mixer channel gt lt Volume 0 100 gt lt Device name or index optional gt SHELL lt Shel1 command gt SHOWMESSAGE lt Message text gt Polycom Inc Player Specific Commands Appendix A Player Commands SIMPLECRAWL lt Layer gt lt Image filename gt lt BackColor Black 0 gt lt ForeColor White 16777215 gt lt YPos gt lt Height gt lt FontSize gt lt delimited text gt SIMPLECRAWLUNICODE lt Layer gt lt Image filename gt lt BackColor Black 0 gt lt ForeColor White 16777215 gt lt YPos gt lt Height gt lt FontSize gt lt delimited text gt SNAPSHOT lt OutputFi 1 ename gt lt wWidth gt lt Height gt STARTCRAWL lt Layer 0 or 1 gt STARTSLIDETICKER lt Layer gt lt Ticker name gt STOPCRAWL lt Layer 0 or 1 gt STOPSLIDETICKER lt Layer gt lt Ticker name gt SYNCFOLDERFILES lt Folder gt File list WRITETOEVENTLOG lt Log message gt WRITETOFILE Filename lt Text to write Replace line breaks with lt BR gt or BR gt WRITETOLOG lt Log message gt Player Specific Commands Polycom Inc CLEARALLPLAYLISTS CLEARPLAYLIST lt Playlist number optional default 1 gt DONEXTEVENT DOPREVIOUSEVENT ENABLEMONITOR l
18. src images wtf hi_tsra20 jpg width 55 height 58 alt Slight Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 20 title Slight Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 20 gt lt br gt Slight Chc lt br gt Tstms lt br gt Hi lt font color FFOO00 gt 85 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Friday lt br gt Night lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf hi_ntsra20 jpg width 55 height 58 alt Slight Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 20 title Slight Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 20 gt lt br gt Slight Chc lt br gt Tstms lt br gt Lo lt font color 0033CC gt 67 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Saturday lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf few jpg width 55 height 58 alt Mostly Sunny title Mostly Sunny gt lt br gt Mostly lt br gt Sunny lt br gt Hi lt font color FF0000 gt 86 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Saturday lt br gt Night lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf nfew jpg width 55 height 58 alt Mostly Clear title Mostly Clear gt lt br gt Mostly lt br gt Clear lt br gt Lo lt font color 0033CC gt 69 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Sunday lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf few jpg width 55 height 58 alt Mostly Sunny title Mostly Sunny gt lt br gt Mostly
19. 1t font amp gt lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule type ReplaceTag source Temp result Temp gt lt StartTag gt amp lt font lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp gt lt EndTag gt lt NewText gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule type GetTag source DaySource result ImageURL gt lt StartTag gt img src amp quot lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp quot lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule type StrCat result ImageURL gt lt Stringl gt http ww erh noaa gov lt String1 gt lt String2 gt ImageURL lt String2 gt lt AddSpace gt False lt AddSpace gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule type GetTag source ImageURL result LocalImage gt lt StartTag gt lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt jpg lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule type StrCat sources lt Stringl gt C NOAAImages lt String1 gt lt String2 gt LocalImage lt String2 gt result LocalImage gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule type StrCat source result LocalImage gt lt Stringl gt LocalImage lt String1 gt lt String2 gt jpg lt String2 gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule type GetImage source result gt lt Ur1 gt ImageURL lt Ur1 gt lt LocalFilename gt LocalImage lt LocalFilename gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule gt lt DataItem gt lt DataSource gt 191 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Parsi
20. 3 05 51 AM 59857 2 5 4 12 A list of managers appears below the Player list in the Network Pane Details about managers currently online are visible here 44 Polycom Inc Network Pane Using the Remote Manager Double clicking a manager s username launches a chat pop up 2 Administrator DOR 7506 24 Administrator check on the status of PDS 15 06 26 Me loods good to me PDS Server Administrator Connections Network PDS Server Connections Player Status Screenshots System Info PDS Server network packages Player Name Computer Name Online IP Address Online Since Version Offline Br EF t 0 1 195 62 1 29 2010 1 53 48 4M 2AB62B19864C 25 4 9 173072 t 1 Bro f r 1 1 j i W Fos b r 195 1 29 2010 3 01 34 AM 5 Bro ne 1 1 3 201 AM CE6808715934 4 BB PDS GD F r 0 1 195 15 4 2009 3 06 56 PM A16 5 4 9 GQ PDSPLAYER1 PDSPLAYER1 yes 10 1 195 53 3 3 2010 3 52 26 AM C7SEBECB1769 25 4 9 The Connections tab shows a table with one row for each Player The table columns show the following information for each Player Name Online status IP address Network Date and time it came online System ID Number of dropped connections Player agent version number Polycom Inc 45 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Network Pane Date and time the Player was last online for offline Players Note The name in the network column indicates the network
21. Browser right click and select Insert Image 122 Polycom Inc Adding and Editing Text Images and Media Modifying Image Properties Using Template Maker The Image Properties tab reveals options associated specifically with an image and are defined as follows General Image Properties Scale Mode Alignment Use Solid Key Run Script On Change Script Module Script Function Run Action On Change Define Actions Set Image Refresh Image Free TopLeft False False Use Key If set to true uses an external key as an alpha mask defining which areas of the image are transparent and which areas are not Run Script on Change If set to True execute script functions whenever the image is dynamically updated Script Module Name of VBScript module containing the script function Script Function Name of VBScript function to execute when Run Script on Change is set to True Run Action on Change If set to True execute action whenever the image is dynamically updated Define Actions button Opens the Action Editor dialog box to create actions associated with dynamic images Set Image Replaces the currently selected image with another image 123 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Adding and Editing Text Images and Media Working with Media 124 Inserting Media Polycom Template Maker provides the ability to import various forms of media as assets to be use
22. Click Finish to save the data parser in the current folder Cancel lt Previous Next Finish Polycom Inc 151 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Licensing Data Parser 10 The feed created in the RSS Wizard will now appear as a Data Source in the Data Parser main menu This means that a Data Definition xml file and a mdb Database File will now appear in the PDS Data Parser directory For all subsequent steps however you will need to use the xdsrc file located in C PolycomContent Data Data Sources PolycomFeed AHN_USNews Data Definition File i lit egion C Program Files Polycom PDS Data Parser PolycomFeed xml Reload PolycomFeed URL ki e http news search yahoo com news tss pltsA9jSeudc25LAKOBI lt OIDMD ylu x30D Refresh UKNews Database File C Program Files Polycom PDS Data Parser PolycomFeed mdb Publish File C XpresenterContent D ata PolycomFeed_PolycomFeed xdsrc Data GREENVILLE S C_ ScanSour 3 15 2010 1 35 2 Avaya and Polycom a provider of 3 15 2010 1 35 7 Polycom s Scalable CMA Deskto 3 15 2010 1 35 2 PLEASANTON CAand HOUST 3 15 2010 1 35 lt Dimimnint Dreanidant in Nardininnian NMinmnnian tn UliehSaht Dant Anne DIAECNNAN 4 90 m lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt rss version 2 0 gt lt channel gt lt title gt lt CDATA Yahoo News Search Results for polycom gt lt titie gt lt link gt http
23. Other containers can also be created simply by naming them in a Result attribute Any container named in a Result attribute including data table fields can be used as a Source in later lt ParsingRule gt elements If a Result attribute names an existing container the container s contents are replaced with the output of the parsing rule e Source specifies the input text for the parsing rule This can be either the original data feed or a container named in the Result attribute of a previous lt ParsingRule gt element A special container named Source holds the original text obtained from the data source s URL The contents of the Source container can be replaced by naming it ina Result attribute just like any other container Definitions for all supported parsing rules are in the Parsing Rule Reference Guide at the end of this appendix Some parsing rules can work with an lt Index gt parameter These are rules that extract a value from their Source container The lt Index gt parameter identifies which occurrence of a value to extract See the Reference Guide for more information relating to specific parsing rules These index aware rules are also used when processing lt Dataltem gt elements see below Some parsing rules support a special tag syntax for some or all of their parameters These are identified as taggable in the Parsing Rule Reference Guide The tag syntax provides two features e Special character handli
24. Output Settings 000 eee eee 108 Video Settings oersoep rasi phi i ceeds be edeen oa dhe ee dee mbes 108 Advanced Settings 2 6 186s es ies die awe ida Sera EEA VESENER 110 Renderer Settings 2ccve ick ecb esac eees cheers Meanie REG 110 Pile Locations lt 2 0205 0b0 944 2806 Gbsd 3005 4 058 28 AREN 110 Playout Stings sescsresire nidie rinan e Stave guerre Pia seaens 111 Reviewing Template Maker Settings 000 111 Adding and Working with Slides 000000000008 112 Modifying General Slide Properties 112 Modifying Background Slide Properties 113 Modifying Actions ona Slide 000 115 Adding Audio toaSlide 00 0000 116 Adding and Editing Text Images and Media 0 117 General Object Properties 0 cee eee eee eee 117 Working with Text erines Sek cin add seen awe oud wie gaat 118 Applying a Text Style vn nicisecccg nants cies gees ogee ceeas 119 Modifying Text Properties 0 0 0000 120 Working with Images oeer eerie ceine eian ree a 121 Inserting Images sny seeei tinii iaie eaea pa a a aa Bas 121 Modifying Image Properties 0 0 00000048 123 Working with Media 00 002 124 Inserting Media 3 sacs tee yasee Vadew ra Rew J be tad oe otis 124 Modifying Media Properties 0 0000 124 The
25. Parser ses iisresiiress do tath n Imenik beai E ta s 152 Using a D ta Source 44 22 siaessdies vie snd Ae eh Oe ait Aon Vea iee amp 153 Non Standard Installations eeeeeeee 159 The PDS Server Configuration Utility 000 159 Renaming the Server 0 0 e eee eee eee eee eee 161 Port Configuration esros crist it asoan Taniak e ETNIE ER 161 Downloading and Installing the Agent 000000 162 Changing Agent Settings ona Player 00 000s 164 Appendix A Player Commands 2 167 Standard Commands 0 00 bee e eee 167 Player Specific Commands 0 0 0 e eee eee eee 169 Appendix B Data Parser eeeeeeeeeee 171 Data Source Definition File Overview 0 00 cee cece eee ene 171 The General Element 00 0000 ccc cece cette eens 172 The ParsingRule Element 0000 e cece eee 173 The Dataltem Element nunnu c eect ee eens 175 Data Source Tutorial 0 00 00 c cette nents 177 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide General Settings 63 oh ech acigad een He wind oteietiwiaeis 178 Parsing Rule Reference Guide 00 0c eee eee 192 Getlmage 22 ise EE RE EAO E eine oes en aa ee 192 Getlag tes fence E E ck oe de cuwten led eed Ete 192 SBT anean esate So evine a a a r nian Man ae 193 MUP CAPS E iit ear havea t Lee elena ea brated tian 193 LCASE ieia
26. Rabbit Jerome Rabbit Bugs Big Ears Hip Hop Hare Happy Rabbit What was the site of John the Baptist s baptisms The Mediterranean Sea The Jordan River The Sea of Galilee The Red Sea The Jordan River How fast was the Titanic going when it hit the iceberg 10 Knots 15 Knots 18 Knots 22 Knots 22 Knots 5 Type in your desired question under the Question row four responses in the Options columns and the correct response in the Answer column Save your changes in Excel Launch the Remote Manager application 8 Click on Publish Content The Publish Content wizard will appear Please consult Publish New Content on page 33 for more information on using the wizard 9 Add the lib_Trivia xls file If it is not currently located with the C XPresenterContent Data directory you will need to designate this target pathway 10 Click through the Wizard 11 Select the Players or Group of players you want to target and distribute the file 12 The Trivia template will now refer to the revised document Video PowerPoint The Video PowerPoint template displays a full screen webcast Video 16x9 Displays Windows Media Quicktime Flash swf and H 264 video content in 16x9 widescreen format See Video Slide Content below Video 4x3 Displays Windows Media Quicktime Flash swf and H 264 video content in 4x3 standard format See Video Slide Content below Weather 3Day Displays a three day weather forecast generated from a data
27. Template Maker before using it in a playlist 8 NOTE Please note when working with text that unlike other objects in a template General Object Properties The property configuration possibilities detailed in this section are identical for all objects in Template Maker eS D General Text Properties Display Name TextBox 12 Full Name TextBox 12 Type msoT extBox Visible True Opacity 255 Render On Output True Left 190 Top 90 ZPos 0 Width 72 Height 72 Update Effect Cut Effect Speed Default Class The general properties associated with an object are defined as follows Polycom Inc 117 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Adding and Editing Text Images and Media Working with Text 118 Display Name Name used to reference the object within the digital signage solution Full Name Full name of object used internally by Microsoft PowerPoint Type PowerPoint object type Visible Specifies whether the object is visible in PowerPoint and on the PDS output Opacity Specifies the transparency level of the object when viewed on the PDS output Setting the Opacity level does not affect the appearance of the object in the PowerPoint slide Render On Output Determines whether or not the object is displayed on the PDS output when the slide is rendered Left X coordinate of left side of object in pixels Top Y coordinate of top side of object in pixels Width
28. Video Properties Dialog 0000 125 Working with Flipbooks 0 0 008 127 Inserting Flipbooks 0 0 0 127 4 Polycom Inc Polycom Inc Contents Modifying Flipbook Properties 0000 e eee 128 Adding and Editing a Crawl 0 0 000 128 Basic Crawl Configuration 00 0 e eee eee 128 Creating a Manual Crawl 0 eee eee 129 Creating a Data Driven Crawl 0 0 eee eee eee 130 Crawl Prop rtles 0 63 s tures eet sarees eden kiaka 131 Setting the Position of a Crawl 0000 133 Adding Clocks and Tickers 000 00 rnrn renr 134 Adding a Clock ccscseisuinsauciing sake Ohl awa laa 134 Adding a Ticker s i5 nisi0icuia hina ieee es 136 Working with Objects cc ik ccaic ccd oc eph cee geew one es eper rages 139 Inserting Objects on a Slide ununun eee eee eee eee 139 Working with Object Groups 6 66 eee eee eee ee 140 Working with Animations 6000 c cece c eee eee eee 140 Animating Objects on a Slide 0 6 e cece eee eee 140 Types of Animations 60 00 c cece eee eee tenes 141 Saving a Template o 24 ccs chet o4 cease ees tes waned waives weet 142 Using the Data Parser 0eceeeeeeeeeees 147 About the PDS Data Parser 6 06 ccc ee 147 Creating a Data SOUrCE ooinore ter rnEeE Weare ada EEE E 147 Licensing Data
29. Weath er Outlook gt lt span class warn gt Hazardous Weather Out look lt span gt lt a gt lt br gt lt div gt lt br gt lt b gt Today lt b gt Showers and thunderstorms likely mainly after noon Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain Mostly cloudy with a high near 81 Southwest wind between 8 and 10 mph Chance of precipitation is 70 New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms lt br gt lt br gt lt b gt Tonight lt b gt Periods of showers and thunderstorms mainly before 2am Some of the storms could produce gusty winds and heavy rain Low around 69 West wind between 7 and 10 mph Chance of precipitation is 80 New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible lt br gt lt br gt lt b gt Friday lt b gt A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon Partly cloudy with a high near 85 West wind between 7 and 16 mph Chance of precipitation 181 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Data Source Tutorial 182 is 20 lt br gt lt br gt lt b gt Friday Night lt b gt A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm Partly cloudy with a low around 67 Northwest wind between 6 and 13 mph Chance of precipitation is 20 lt br gt lt br gt lt b gt Saturday lt b gt Mostly sunny with a high near 86 West wind between 8 and 16 mph lt br gt lt br gt lt b gt Saturday Night lt b gt Mos
30. a subtle problem here What we want is to extract the text from between the first indeed the only pair of lt b gt and lt b gt tags However simply adding the above rule to the lt Dataltem gt element will not work lt DataItem NumRecords 9 ClearTableOnStart True gt lt ParsingRule type GetTag Source Source result DaySource gt lt StartTag gt amp lt td lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp 1t td amp gt lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule type GetTag source DaySource result DayPart gt lt StartTag gt amp lt b amp gt lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp 1t b amp gt lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt lt DataItem gt The above code will only extract the first day part s name but will not extract anything for subsequent day parts To understand why recall that the GetTag rule is index aware This means that on each iteration of the DatalItem s rules GetTag is trying to obtain that iteration s occurrence of the StartTag and EndTag values So on the first iteration the second GetTag rule retrieves the text between first occurrence of lt b gt and lt b gt But on the second iteration that rule tries to retrieve the text between the second occurrence of lt b gt and lt b gt Since there is no second occurrence of lt b gt and lt b gt in the DaySource container the rule retrieves nothing To achieve what we want the second rule has to be made a child of the first rule
31. an cbse e e wave 8 inagd By att dads Bp i e aT 193 DiGi es geass ceases Goede eta or Be hve EE EE EE 194 f 0d Uh 09 qarsi e i i a a ea 194 Mid eee recteiice Rie dani hiten beaches tan r e a ea tebe de tierce Wcbedcd 195 ParseDelimited e eisoes esseet ped ae edad ne OEE ore lian 8 195 Read TextPile 205 6 ace8s ya eb heed waves ba wh eh ease a dae ewes 196 Replace 4200s tkayinad bebnensee eee See E E ee awe Dee 196 ReplaceCharacterCodes 0 0 cece ee cece eee es 197 Replacelag sini ees ec bes renion ian etone ewan omen w ils ae 197 RISE nc ociut seus ends or aie A ethane ENEE 197 RAGE DUI eie iet iiae AEE EEE Raa alll dee aNetda ese 198 Set Vale aissiccpcscestcact ninya aien kEi i a a a 198 SCA beee a r a a a a ei 199 TEA o a a a a a anes 199 TrimFromEnd TrimFromStart TrimToEnd and TromToStart 200 WAS OC o5 5 ne e BER ys ne Fee A a See 200 C Appendix C Configuration Files 201 Changing Output Settings with the XPT ini Configuration File 201 6 Polycom Inc About this Guide Purpose Documentation Polycom Inc This introduction provides a brief overview of the Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide describes the conventions used in this manual and explains how to get additional information or support The Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide describes how to configure and use the Polycom Digital Signage Player and Remote Manager for a complete digital signage solution
32. and resize or scale all objects in a group as a single unit You can ungroup a group of objects at any time and then regroup them later To group elements into an object do the following 1 Select one or more slide elements in a slide 2 Right click on any of the elements and from the right click menu that appears choose Grouping gt Group To ungroup object into individual elements do the following 1 Select an object group 2 Right click on the group and from the right click menu that appears choose Grouping gt Ungroup Working with Animations 140 Animating Objects on a Slide Animation presets simplify the use of animations for introducing looping and closing objects that appear in a template While a slide is playing out objects on the slide can also have in animation and out animation effects when they appear and are removed from view To create animation for individual slide objects 1 Select an object on a slide 2 Inthe Template Maker region choose an Animation Type from the In Animation palette 3 If desired choose an Animation Type from the Out Animation palette For both In and Out animations you can modify animation properties In Animation and Out Animation panels have the same properties except the Out Animation panel does not have the option Auto play on slide load Modify animation properties as follows Polycom Inc Working with Animations Polycom Inc Using Template Make
33. crawl from the PDS Player output delete the Lobby Crawl template from your playlist Polycom Inc 93 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Slide Show Tickers Slide Show Tickers The Slide Show Tickers tab allows administrators to directly edit and replace frequently updated elements of the playlist the Event Calendar Product Catalog and About Company Text Event Calendar Se a ee MA Create PPT archive Product Catalog SS E a FA Create PPT archive About Company Text To update the Event Calendar and Product Catalog 1 Click Edit File under the element you wish to change PowerPoint will launch if it is not yet open 2 The Event Calendar or Product Catalog ppt will appear Edit the PowerPoint file as necessary Note the Event Calendar and Product Catalog PowerPoint tickers are named according to suggested use but can be freely administrator defined depending on i your needs 94 Polycom Inc Slide Show Tickers Polycom Inc Using the Web Controller Save the file and select the target Player Do not alter the default save location 3 If you wish to retrieve a Calendar running on a particular Player and redistribute to another Player click Retrieve from Player 4 Alternatively if you wish to replace rather than edit the existing PowerPoint ticker select Import PowerPoint File A warning will appear select Yes choose the file and click Open You will then be prompted to pro
34. extracts whatever text lies between the fifth occurrence of here and there lt ParsingRule Type GetTag Source Source Result Replaced gt lt StartTag gt here lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt there lt EndTag gt lt Index gt 5 lt Index gt lt ParsingRule gt GetUrl The GetUrl rule downloads a file from a URL into the Result container The Source attribute is required but ignored Parameters Url taggable The URL to download Example The following rule downloads the index asp file from www polycom com and places its contents in the polycomHome container lt ParsingRule Type GetUrl Source Result polycomHome gt lt Url gt http www polycom com index asp lt Url gt lt ParsingRule gt InitCaps The InitCaps rule converts to uppercase the first letter of every word in the Source container Parameters None Example lt ParsingRule Type InitCaps Source SomeSource Result Capitalized gt Lcase The Lcase rule converts to lowercase all the letters in the Source container Parameters None 193 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Parsing Rule Reference Guide 194 Example lt ParsingRule Type Lcase Source SomeSource Result Al SmallLetters gt Left The Left rule extracts a specified number of characters from the beginning of the Source container Parameters e Length The number of characters to extract from the beginning of the Source conta
35. feed Polycom Inc 91 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Crawling Ticker Crawling Ticker The Crawling Ticker is an animated item that runs at the bottom of the Player screen The ticker can be populated with user designated text or with an automatically generated feed of news stories entertainment news or sports news Select Crawl Data Source E Manual Manual Crawl Text To change the crawling ticker 1 Select a crawl data source from the drop down menu Click Apply 92 Polycom Inc Crawling Ticker Using the Web Controller 2 If you have chosen a manual crawl enter your message in the Manual Crawl Text field If you wish to fill the field with the crawl text currently running on a Player click Retrieve From Player The Player Retrieval screen will appear Select a Player and click OK Select Player S UP PDS Server PDS Network PDSPLAYER3 10 1 195 53 BAP PDS Network d w Current playlist DefaultPlaylist xplst BA PDS Network 2 KH PDS Network 24 ae Trivia Challenge PDS Network 3 ir BA PDS Network 4 G PDSLAYERS EE PDSPLAYER1 E PDSPLAYER4 3 Click Save 4 Click Update on Screen configuration change on the target Player However although the change will appear on the target Player your changes will not be saved without first pressing the Save button Note It is always necessary to click Update on Screen in order to effect a 5 To remove the
36. gt lt ParsingRule gt ParseDelimited The ParseDelimited rule extracts a specific substring from a delimited string A delimited string is a string made up of substring separated by a delimiting character For example this is a comma delimited string This rule is useful in parsing comma separated value files Parameters e Delimiter The delimiting character used to separate substrings e Index optional Which substring to extract Example If the BigString container contains this is a short string then the following rule places short in the Token container lt ParsingRule Type ParseDelimited Source BigString Result Token gt lt Delimiter gt lt Delimiter gt lt Index gt 4 lt Index gt lt ParsingRule gt 195 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Parsing Rule Reference Guide 196 ReadTextFile The ReadTextFile rule loads the contents of a text file into the Result container The Source attribute is required but ignored Parameters e Filename The path and name of the file to load Example The following rule loads the contents of the C Test txt file into the Tester container lt ParsingRule Type ReadTextFile Source Result Tester gt lt Filename gt C Test txt lt Filename gt lt ParsingRule gt Replace The Replace rule replaces the all occurrences of a string of text with another string of text Parameters e SearchText The string to be replaced
37. has been designed in Microsoft PowerPoint user must export the slide as a template 1 In Polycom Template Maker choose the Save Slide as Template button Alternatively navigate to File gt Save Slide as Template 2 The Template Settings dialog box appears WW Template Settings General Categories Parameters In order to add a slide to a playlist you must first save it as a template Templates include all of the layout information data relationships and logical operations needed for the Player to display the final video output Template Properties Name Presentation1_Slide1 IL D escription Preroll secs Default Duration secs 0 60 Advanced Options Use file path aliases Templates Root Folder Copy fil Note This value can be changed in the Program Settings window v Copy files Important Asset files saved in the presenterContent Library and Projects folders will not be copied to the template folder All other files will be copied to the appropriate sub folder under the template directory Additional Files Save Current Slide Save All Slides 3 Enter a Name for the template to export 4 Inthe Templates Root Folder enter or browse to the local folder containing templates typically C XpresenterContent Templates 142 Polycom Inc Saving a Template Using Template Maker 5 To assign the template to one or more specific categories in the Categories area in the Existin
38. lt DataItem NumRecords 9 ClearTableOnStart True gt lt ParsingRule type GetTag Source Source result DaySource gt lt StartTag gt amp lt td lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp 1t td amp gt lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule type GetTag source DaySource result DayPart gt lt StartTag gt amp lt b amp gt lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp 1t b amp gt lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt 185 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Data Source Tutorial 186 lt ParsingRule gt lt DataItem gt This changes the way Data Parse handles the second rule Because it is a now child rule the current Dataltem iteration is not passed to it as an Index value This makes the rule use the default index value 1 and so it now always retrieves the text between the first occurrence of lt b gt and lt b gt A different way we could have solved this problem would be to instead add an Index parameter to the second GetTag rule so that it always extracts from the first occurrence lt DataItem NumRecords 9 ClearTableOnStart True gt lt ParsingRule type GetTag Source Source result DaySource gt lt StartTag gt amp lt td lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp 1t td amp gt lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule type GetTag source DaySource result DayPart gt lt StartTag gt amp lt b amp gt lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp 1t b amp gt lt EndTag gt lt Index gt 1 lt I
39. lt br gt Sunny lt br gt Hi lt font color FF0000 gt 92 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Sunday lt br gt Night lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf nsct jpg width 55 height 58 alt Partly Cloudy title Partly Cloudy gt lt br gt Partly lt br gt Cloudy lt br gt Lo lt font color 0033CC gt 75 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Monday lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf sct jpg width 55 height 58 alt Partly Cloudy title Partly Cloudy gt lt br gt Partly lt br gt Cloudy lt br gt Hi lt font color FF0000 gt 91 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt tr gt This is a single HTML table row that contains all the weather data we need Before we extract that data we use the ReplaceCharacterCodes rule to replace all HTML character codes e g amp deg with their true characters e g the degree symbol lt ParsingRule type ReplaceCharacterCodes source Source result Source gt Now that the text characters are in order we want to set about extracting each day part s forecast We use a Dataltem element to apply a set of parsing rules 9 times once for each day part in the HTML code lt DataItem NumRecords 9 ClearTableOnStart True gt lt DataItem gt 183 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Data Source Tutorial 184 All of the remaining parsing rules in this tutorial are contained in this Dataltem element
40. menu Do Nothing Does not affect the state of the crawl If a crawl is currently playing it continues to play when the current slide is loaded Stop crawl Stops the current crawl immediately when the current slide is loaded Start with default settings Starts the crawl with default parameter settings Start with custom settings Starts the crawl with custom parameter settings 4 Click the Set Crawl Properties button to open the Crawl Settings dialog box in order to create a custom crawling ticker Creating a Manual Crawl In the Selected Object area select the Crawl tab Set the Crawl Action to Start with custom settings Click the Set Crawl Properties button Aa O N The Crawl Settings dialog box opens Polycom Inc 129 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide 5 Set the crawl Type to Manual Ga Crawl Settings Layout Type Crawl Data Adding and Editing a Crawl Manual Image or Flipbook Filename Loop crawl data C Advance playlist at end of crawl LJ Opacity 255 Flipbook Speed 180 H Image Width 0 Back Color Image Height 0 Fore Color C Drop Shadow Direction Left v Shadow Offset 2 g Shadow Color o Font Arial 24pt Copy From Slide Copy From Clipboard Copy To Clipboard Apply 6 Enter text into the Crawl Data text area entering a each line of crawl data line break in between 7 Click Apply to i
41. news search yahoo com search news Pp polycom amp amp ei UTF 8 lt ink gt lt description gt lt CDATA Yahoo News Search Results for polycom gt lt descnption gt lt language gt en us lt language gt lt copynght gt Copynght c 2004 Yahoo Inc Al nights reserved lt copynght gt lt lastBulldDate gt Mon 15 Mar 2010 20 36 32 GMT lt astBuldDate gt lt tti gt 5 lt ttl gt lt image gt lt titie gt Yahoo News lt title gt lt width gt 142 lt width gt lt height gt 18 lt height gt Messages Getting a http news search yahoo com news tss _plt 49 8eudcZ5LAkKOBRXOIDMD ylusXx3oDMTASMTBs ZGZsBHNNYwNh2ZGO0 ei UTF 8kc p polycomkeo UTF 8 Reading data Parsing complete I Create parsing log Clear Messages Update Interval sec 600 Licensing Data Parser 152 Polycom Inc Using a Data Source Using a Data Source Using the Data Parser After a Data Source is created it can then be used to replace the sources in the Entertainment Breaking and Sports News default playlist templates or to create a new FSData template With the Remote Manager and Web Controller tools administrators can distribute a data source created in any one Data Parser to all PDS Players in a network that a Player has Data Parser installed consult the System Info tab of the Network 4 NOTE All PDS Players must have Data Parser installed and running To confirm pane in Remote Manager If the Dataparser Version Dataparser Li
42. of Players menu will appear Click within the Player Name region to edit the name of a given PDS Player The Notes section automatically records recent network changes for each player this section can be user edited Click Save 39 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Network and Groups Pane Delete Offline Players Offline Players can be deleted individually by right clicking on the Player in the Connections tab of the Network pane Alternatively selecting Delete Offline Players will delete all offline Players in a network Please note that online Players cannot be deleted Offline Players DoR Player Computer Name Offline Since EE PDSPLAYER PDSPLAYER 3 17 2010 1 07 49 AM EE PDSPLAYER1 PDSPLAYER1 3 17 2010 3 35 59 AM EE PDSPLAYER3 PDSPLAYER3 3 17 2010 1 19 55 AM PDS Server 3 players offline 1 Selecting the Delete Offline Players dialogue will launch the Offline Players menu 2 All Players not currently connected to the PDS Server or Players that have been removed from a given Network or subnetwork will appear in the Offline Players dialogue 3 Select the Players you wish to delete and click Delete Selected to remove them from the Remote Manager interface Please note that when reconnected these Players will reappear in the Remote Manager 4 Click Close when completed AO Polycom Inc Network and Groups Pane Using the Remote Manager Create New Network New Networks can be created by righ
43. or ina moveable window the TV output format NTSC PAL etc and whether to display FPS along with the output Under Output users can choose to view the output in Monitor or Windows Media 9 formats if possible Under Video users can choose whether to display Video on top and how many Video Buffers are present of the VertigoCG Renderer Please contact Polycom Support before making any NOTE The default PDS Player does not support changes in the hardware settings changes 26 Polycom Inc Controlling the VertigoCG Renderer Using the PDS Player 5 The Software Settings tab provides another set of configuration options CG Control Panel A gt A d i Hardware Settings Software Settings Scene Directory C Scene Log File v TCPIP Port 4000 Cel Cache Size 5 MipMap Lod Bias 0 50 y Enable MipMapping 1 Cancel Users can change the scene directory dictate a log file change the TCPIP Port for the CG Renderer change the Cel Cache Size and enable MipMapping a faster but more memory intensive form of rendering If MipMapping is enabled users can adjust the negative level of detail bias of the VertigoCG Renderer Please contact Polycom Support before making any NOTE The default PDS Player does not support changes in the software settings changes 6 When configuration has been completed click OK Click exit on the VertigoCG interface and reopen it NOTE Changes made i
44. playlist once it is running Polycom Inc Alerts Using the Web Controller Alerts The Alert tab allows content managers to stop the playlist to display an alert screen Load Alert Reload Playlist a ee ee To broadcast an alert 1 Edit the Alert Title and Alert Message text fields as necessary 2 Choose whether to play one of the default Audio Alerts as well Polycom Inc 99 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Alerts 3 Click Load Alert Screen and choose a target Player The alert will display 3 58 PM 01 Mar 10 Fire Alarm Alert Please exit building immediately This is not a drill 4 When the alert is no longer necessary click Restart Playlist 100 Polycom Inc Settings Settings Polycom Inc Using the Web Controller The Settings tab allows you to simply apply overarching customizations to your playlist Select Style Sheet LS PT Customization Settings Style Sheet A set of default style sheets come pre configured with Polycom Digital Signage solution These stylesheets apply to all templates within a playlist To apply anew style sheet from among these default options select an item from the drop down menu and click Apply Customization Administrators can replace the default logo with a custom logo For the logo in the upper right users can choose between a flipbook animation and a static image To browse for an file click the link next to the exi
45. rule places ry had a little lamb everything after the first a in the MaryStuff container lt ParsingRule Type TrimToEnd Source Source Result MaryStuff gt lt SearchText gt a lt SearchText gt lt ParsingRule gt The following rule places Mary note the trailing space in the MaryStuff container lt ParsingRule Type TrimFromStart Source Source Result MaryStuff gt lt SearchText gt had a lt SearchText gt lt ParsingRule gt The following rule places M everything before the first a in the MaryStuff container lt ParsingRule Type TrimFromStart Source Source Result MaryStuff gt lt SearchText gt a lt SearchText gt lt ParsingRule gt Ucase The Ucase rule converts to uppercase all the letters in the Source container Parameters None Example lt ParsingRule Type Ucase Source SomeSource Result Al1BigLetters gt Polycom Inc Appendix C Configuration Files This appendix outlines the procedure to change PDS Player settings via the Remote Manager Please note that this appendix is intended only for sophisticated users Contact Polycom Support before changing any configuration files Changing Output Settings with the XPT ini Configuration File Polycom Inc All Player Configuration Files are managed through the PDS Remote Manager NOTE Please contact Polycom Support before making changes to the configuration files To access and edit the PDS Player Configura
46. to New York NY lt ParsingRule Type SetValue Result City gt lt Value gt New York NY lt Value gt lt ParsingRule gt The following parsing rule replaces all occurrences of Vanilla with Chocolate in the original text of the data feed Note how the special Source container is being overwritten by this parsing rule after running this rule the special Source container will no longer contain the word Vanilla lt ParsingRule Type Replace Source Source Result Source gt lt SearchText gt Vani1la lt SearchText gt lt NewText gt Chocolate lt NewText gt lt ParsingRule gt The following parsing rule uses a taggable parameter to replace all occurrences of the two lines Fred Flintstone Barney Rubble with the single word Dino lt ParsingRule Type Replace Source Source Result Source gt lt SearchText gt Fred Flintstone lt cr1f gt BarneyRubble lt SearchText gt lt NewText gt Dino lt NewText gt lt ParsingRule gt The following parsing rule uses a taggable parameter to replace all occurrences of Somebody with the contents of the container called PersonName lt ParsingRule Type Replace Source Source Result Source gt lt SearchText gt Somebody lt SearchText gt lt NewText gt PersonName lt NewText gt lt ParsingRule gt The Dataltem Element lt Dataltem gt elements are used to repeatedly apply a list of parsing rules This allows Data Parser to fill a table with mul
47. to which the Player belongs which is useful when you have selected a network or group that contains sub networks or subgroups Players that are currently offline will be shown as dimmed i e the text of their table row will be a light gray color and you will not be able to perform most operations on them Youcan sort the table entries by clicking any of the column headings PDS Remote Manager will initially sort the table by Player name To bring up the PDS Remote Player Management Console double click the Player s row in the table Player Status Like the Connections tab the Player Status tab presents a table of the Players in the selected network but with different columns of data to show status information for the PDS Player software and the computer Connections Player Status Screenshots System Info PDS Server network packages Player Name Status Self Playlist GB PDSPLAYER On Air Good yes Maste GB PDSPLAYER1 no video CG down Commander do no Maste The columns in the table show the following information for each Player Name PDS Player status Self healing setting Currently running playlist Current event number within the current playlist Windows page file size Virtual memory used by the CG Player graphics application Virtual memory used by the PDS Player application Total disk usage on the system Master volume level for the audio output Time stam
48. 50 11 PM Last Heartbeat Loc 3 10 2010 2 50 12 PM The Player Status panel provides a summary of the individual Players performance and present status 55 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide 56 Running Processes Remote Player Management Console WD Player Status C Running Processes El Windows Services File Manager Process Name Physical Me Virtual Mem ProcessID Win FileName O Ati2evex 5 228 K 53 384K 1540 C window O tievs 3 504 K 38 488K 1012 C window C audiodg 3 500 K 44 316K 1192 C BemDeviceAndT askS 19 884 K 180 608K 3884 C Program OMccc 3 904 K 237 544K 3688 C Program O cstss 7 380 K 150 604K 576 C Window O csrss 4 272 K 150 336K 504 C Window O DCPSysMar 6 672 K 77 704K 4044 C Program C Dell ControlPoint 28 040 K 184 008K 3924 C Program O Dell UCM 36 728 K 206 580K 3520 C Program C dwm 45 324 K 115 820K 3576 C window 35 656 K 195 772K 1738 CNWindow C l Anotif 4800K 65 124K 3800 C Program CO I4ANTmon 4 636 K 53 052K 380 C Program C Idle 24K 0K 0 O jucheck 7640K 82 060K 5640 C Program C jusched 4744K 65 724K 3332 C Program C Ims 3120K 43 652K 1428 C Program O lsass 1 708 K 68 120K 660 C window C lsm 4 336 K 34 552K 676 C wWindow O MoM 5 080 K 184 488K 2876 C Program O MSASCui 5 436 K 73 516K 3600 C Program C PrivacylconClient 21 460 K 157 980K 1064 C Program O SeaPott 7 052 K 7O496K 2076 C Program l SearchFiterHost 5460K 52184K 4828
49. 7 POLYCOM gt Polycom Digital Signage PDS 2000 Administrator Guide 1 0 August 2010 3725 78600 004A2 Trademark Information Polycom the Triangles logo ReadiManager SoundPoint SoundStation ViaVideo VoiceStation Vortex and VSX are registered trademarks of Polycom Inc Convene Global Management System iPower MGC People Content People On Content Polycom Conference Suite Polycom Converged Management Application CMA Polycom Distributed Media Application DMA Polycom HD Voice Polycom PathNavigator Polycom VideoPlus Polycom VoicePlus PVX RAS ReadiConvene RMX 2000 RSS V2iU VBP VS4000 and VTX are trademarks of Polycom Inc All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners Patent Information The accompanying product is protected by one or more U S and foreign patents and or pending patent applications held by Polycom Inc 2010 Polycom Inc All rights reserved Polycom Inc 4750 Willow Road Pleasanton CA 94588 2708 USA No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical for any purpose without the express written permission of Polycom Inc Under the law reproducing includes translating into another language or format As between the parties Polycom Inc retains title to and ownership of all proprietary rights with r
50. AM when clock type is set to Time Countdown 16 To target the text box created in step 6 above with the clock object select the text box named Time in the Target Object drop down list 17 Click OK to close the Ticker Properties dialog box 18 The name of the ticker created appears in the TickerList 19 To add another ticker in the Clocks and Tickers tab choose Add Polycom Inc 135 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Adding Clocks and Tickers 136 20 21 22 23 To delete a ticker select the ticker in the Clocks and Tickers tab and choose Remove To copy a ticker from one slide to another select the ticker in the Clocks and Tickers tab and choose Copy To paste a ticker that s been previously copied from the Clocks and Tickers tab choose Paste To make changes to a ticker select the ticker in the Clocks and Tickers tab and choose Edit Additional ticker options are described as follows Run script on change If set to True execute script functions whenever the text is dynamically updated Script Function Name of VBScript function to execute when Run Script on Change is set to True Perform action on change If set to True execute action whenever the text is dynamically updated Define Actions button Opens the Action Editor dialog box to create actions associated with dynamic text Adding a Ticker Template Maker lets you display data from various sources including
51. Administrator Guide Adding and Editing Text Images and Media 1 Inthe Style Browser be sure Text is selected as the Type and right click Insert Text Greng Apply Style Edit 2 From the menu that appears choose Edit The Style Browser PowerPoint file named StylesText_Default ppt opens Notice the Slides tab contains each Text Style as an individual slide You will copy your slide with the text object and paste it here 3 Return to the text object slide in your file In the PowerPoint main menu choose View gt Switch Windows gt your filename 4 Inthe Slides tab select the slide that contains the newly stylized text object Right click and choose Copy In the PowerPoint main menu choose View gt Switch Windows gt StylesText_Default Create a new slide in the StylesText_Default file 8 Paste your text object into this slide Choose File gt Save to save the StylesText_Default file and then close the file The Text Style Gallery is updated with your new text style Modifying Text Properties eS D General Text Properties Text Enable Antialiasing True Use CG Text True Update On Change Only True Run Script On Change False Script Module Script Function Run Action On Change False Define Actions Set Format String The Text Properties tab reveals options associated specifically with a text box and are defined as follows e Text Character string of text being displayed in the text box
52. Alternatively click Save As at the bottom of the Editor 77 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Playlist Editor 2 The Playlist will then appear 2 io tovov soa Fooacoen ooozoo o parame Remove toaa afma fooozoo o Parame 1 Remove toaa fe leven CatensarPowerrom oo1e30 o Parame 1 Remove toaa e frreanerso ooooss o Parame 1 Remove toaa fofsporsHeaaines ooozoo o Parame 1 Remove toaa 12fweaner soa ooooss o parame Remove toaa _ eo To add a template to the playlist a Choose a template from the Available Templates drop down menu b Choose the duration in seconds for which the template will run c Choose whether the item will run in the foreground appropriate only for crawling tickers or in the background d Click Add Template 4 To change the configuration of an existing template click on a Description Duration Layer or Parameter field to launch an editor 5 To move a template within a playlist use the up and down arrows within the editor The order of the template will determine when the template plays on the playlist 6 To load a specific template within a playlist click the Load link 78 Polycom Inc Playlist Editor Using the Web Controller 7 Toremovea single template click the Remove link beside the template inside the Playlist To remove all templates from the Playlist click Clear All To delete the Playlist altogether
53. Content 20100301_12474 2 46 KB Administrator 3 2 2010 12 49 33 AM gy WebControlContent 20100301_ 13134 869 99 KB Administrator 3 2 2010 1 15 45 4M i WebControlContent 20100301_14351 171 407 36 KB Administrator 3 2 2010 2 38 23 AM a WwWebControlContent 20100301_14383 99 629 25KB Administrator 3 2 2010 2 40 56 AM WebControlContent 20100301 14405 82 138 19KB Administrator 3 2 2010 2 43 13 AM lt Polycom Inc 49 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Remote Player Management Console Remote Player Management Console Double clicking a Player in the Network pane double clicking the Player row ina tabular view or double clicking the Player s thumbnail image in an image view will bring up the PDS Remote Player Management Console window This window presents more detailed status information on the Player and provides tools for managing and controlling the Player g Start Process Fie Manager Reboot Set License EJ Monitoring Settings Edit Config Restart Polycom Player i Playlist P Load Command Tools Remote Player Management Console Page File CPU Audio Disk C BB Player Status 7 Running Processes Windows Services File Manager Parameter General Player Name SPENCERPDS Self Healing On No In Operation sched Yes Status On Air Good Status changed 3 2 2010 6 12 22 PM Last action Performance CPU Load 18 Wave Audio ovu Memory Page File 1572 MB 36 Dis
54. DS Player Video Settings Configuring the PDS Player PL Program Settings rs Settings General Video Settings Startup Settings Options Advanced eene 1280x720 z C Custom W 720 H 480 100 Orientation Landscape Renderer Op Auto size output to match slide dims Wait On Syne Hybrid Z Auto size slide to match output Note Setting to False increases system performance but may degrade output quality tout Window J Dual monitor mode V Full screen Video Capture Filter Video Crossbar Setting 0 Audio Capture Filter Audio Crossbar Setting 0 TY Tuner Channel 0 Width 640 Height 480 0 for no tuner Cok coea Act Output Windows Settings The Output Window section of Video Settings includes the following configuration options e Standard Specifies the dimensions of the video output window Choose from a list of standard resolutions 640x480 720x480 DV NTSC 720x486 NTSC SMPTE 720x576 PAL 800x600 1024x768 1280x720 1280x1024 1600x1200 and 1920x1080 e Custom Specifies the dimensions of the video output window according to the specified Width W and Height H e Orientation Specifies whether the video output window should be displayed in either Landscape or Portrait format in conjunction with the Standard or Custom output window dimensions e Auto size output to match slide dims When selected the resolution of the video output window will scale to mat
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56. Eu PDS Network 24 E PDS Network 3 om Qumu Om PDSLAYERS O PDSPLAYER1 CE PDSPLAYER3 Om PDSPLAYER4 Offline Players will display a darkened screen online Players will show a blue screen Click OK affected Players must be online and running the PDS Player application Updates Note In order for the changes made in the PDS Web Controller to take effect all made offline will not take effect automatically Editing the Announcement and Emergency Crawls Announcement Crawl Text See See Emergency Crawl Text Se ee Polycom Inc 73 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Control Panel The Announcement and Emergency Crawls can be edited started and stopped from the Control Panel These crawls will not change or stop the playlist in progress but will instead run at the top of the screen To publish a crawl to a PDS Player 1 To change an announcement edit the craw text field Announcement Crawl Text 2 Click Start Crawl The Player selection window will appear Choose the target Player or Players for your announcement Click OK 3 The Announcement Crawl should appear on the Player shortly 74 Polycom Inc Control Panel Using the Web Controller Please note that the Emergency Crawl will appear in red Evacuate the building now Evacuate the building now Evacuate Breaking a Glee Concert Tour Kicks Off Glee fans don t stop believin The cas musical dramedy is re
57. Microsoft Excel spreadsheets Access database files as well as XML files You can link a text box object to a single data element that appears when the slide is played out Alternatively the template can display several data items that are each on air for a specified period of time before being replaced by the next item To specify the date or time in a text box 1 2 In PowerPoint create a text box object and select it In the General tab of Template Maker enter a descriptive name for the text box in the Display Name field In the Current Slide area click Slide The available slide properties appear Click the Next gt gt tab to reveal more slide properties and choose Clocks and Tickers The TickerList area appears In the Clocks and Tickers tab choose Add The Ticker Properties dialog box appears In the General area of the Ticker Properties dialog box enter a name to describe the ticker Polycom Inc Adding Clocks and Tickers Using Template Maker 7 Inthe Type drop down list select Ticker Ticker Properties General Name Type Ticker v Render output on change Data Source Return 1 H record s at atime V Loop records Data File or Connection String V Wrap records Field mapping for record 1 v Connection String Browse Field Target Object Text Search Osal O Specity Row Col TableVorksheet X View Search Field gt Search Text Allow parti
58. Output Settings Using Template Maker Playout Settings The Playout Settings of the Advanced Settings are as follows Player Mode box Standard Configures the PDS Player to function as an authoring station Interactive Configures the PDS Player to function as an interactive kiosk station NOTE Interactive mode is not supported in most implementations Please do not select this option without input from Polycom support Interactive Window When in Interactive Player Mode defines the topmost and leftmost location XPos YPos and size Width Height in pixels of the interactive window URL Loader Window When displaying an internet browser window defines the topmost and leftmost location XPos YPos in pixels of the Loader window Reviewing Template Maker Settings Polycom Inc After setting the Template Maker renderer settings users should verify that the renderer is functioning properly with system hardware To verify renderer settings 1 To load a PowerPoint presentation in the PowerPoint main menu choose File gt Open Browse to a PowerPoint presentation ppt on your computer and choose Open In Template Maker click the Render button from the lower left corner of the screen The current slide is taken to the preview window either to the second display or to the CG Renderer window If the presentation renders correctly click ALT Esc to exit the renderer If the presentation f
59. TE Accessing the Player via RDP locks the Player output As a result RDP is not a recommended tool for routine player management If you wish to make content and configuration changes while the Player is running use the Polycom Remote Manager and Polycom Web Controller Player Directly After a Player has been set up connected to an output and connected to the network via the Polycom Digital Signage Agent administrators can configure the Player for their particular implementation The following sections outline the various configuration possibilities Please note that the following process applies for all configuration changes 1 Launch the PDS Player from the desktop if it is not already running 2 Stop Player output by hitting Att Esc if necessary 3 Navigate to Tools gt Settings The Settings window will appear 4 Choose which tab in the Settings window you wish to edit The specifics of each tab are detailed below When configuration has been completed click Apply and then OK 6 Reload the Playlist in the Player Configuring PDS Player Video Settings PDS Player Video Settings is divided into two sections Output Window and Capture Settings Settings defined in Output Window let you configure the properties of the PDS Player output window on the Player output display Settings defined in Capture Settings let you configure how the PDS Player communicates with 3rd party capture devices Polycom Inc Configuring P
60. TION lt Animation name gt lt Layer 0 or 1 gt RAWDEVICECOMMAND lt Device Command gt lt Command Params gt lt Layer 0 or 1 gt RESETALL RESTARTTICKER lt Layer 0 or 1 lt TickerName gt SENDMONITORCOMMAND lt Port num gt lt Monitor type Defined in MonitorControl txt gt lt Command Defined in MonitorControl txt gt SENDSERIAL lt Port num gt lt Baud rate gt lt Parity gt lt Data bits gt lt Stop bits gt lt Text to send gt SETBGCLIP lt Layer 0 or 1 gt lt Clip filename gt SETCLIP lt Object name gt lt Layer 0 or 1 gt lt Clip filename gt SETCLOCK lt Year gt lt Month gt lt Day gt lt Hour gt lt Minute gt lt Second gt SETCRAWLDATAFILE lt Data filename gt lt Layer 0 or 1 gt SETCRAWLIMAGE lt Image filename gt lt Layer 0 or 1 gt SETCRAWLTEXT lt Text gt lt Layer 0 or 1 gt SETFLIPBOOK lt Object name gt lt Layer 0 or 1 gt lt Filename of first flipbook image gt lt Process render queue True or False optional default True gt SETIMAGE lt Object name gt lt Layer 0 or 1 gt lt Image Filename gt lt Process render queue True or False optional default True gt SETMASTERVOLUME lt Volume 0 100 gt SETOBJECTPOSITION lt Object name gt lt Layer 0 or 1 gt lt X pos gt lt Y pos gt lt Width optional gt lt Height Coptional gt SETSLIDEAUDIOPLAYLIST lt Filename or list gt lt Layer gt SETSLIDEAUDIOPLAYLISTVOLUME lt Volume 0 100
61. The PDS Template Maker setup screen appears Click Next Designate a destination for the file The default directory C Program Files Polycom PDS Template Maker is recommended Click Next Choose a folder to appear in the Start Menu Click Next A review screen will appear Click Install Double click on the PDS Template Maker desktop icon to begin Licensing Template Maker 1 From the Windows Start menu choose Programs gt Polycom Digital Signage gt PDS TemplateMaker Polycom Template Maker will launch In the Template Maker companion window open Tools gt License Manager The License Manager will appear Gw License Manager License Details Enter new license information below Product ID E705 78691 5 License Key License Details 3 Enter the License Key you have used for the other items in your Polycom Digital Signage solution Click OK 4 Template Maker should now be licensed 104 Polycom Inc Navigating the Template Maker Interface Navigating the Template Maker Interface Tm Polycom Template Maker EOR i a a General Background Crawl Actions Slide Name Render With Alpha Smooth Slide Check For Duplicate Names Reset Renderer Layer Transition Auto Clear Slide Auto Clear Interval Auto Stop Crawl Style Sheet Class Slide Dimensions Slide1 True False True False Default Default False 10 True 1280x720 yer B
62. able are either Manual or Data Driven Loop crawl data When checked repeatedly loops the crawl data present in a manual or data driven crawl When unchecked crawl data appears once on screen and then crawl playback stops Advance playlist at end of crawl When checked advanced the playlist following the end of crawl data items Image or Flipbook Filename Specifies the path to an image or flipbook to use as a graphical separator in between lines of crawl data To add an image or flipbook graphic separator into the crawl do the following a Inthe Image or Flipbook Filename field click Browse b Select an image or a flipbook image and click Open c If adding a flipbook check the Flipbook option 131 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Adding and Editing a Crawl d Set the width and height in the Image Width and Image Height fields and click Apply Opacity Specifies the degree of transparency to the background crawl bar Speed Specifies the speed at which the crawl moves in the direction specified by Direction Back Color Specifies the color to the background crawl bar Fore Color Specifies the color of the crawl text Drop Shadow When checked adds a drop shadow to the crawling text Shadow Offset Specifies the distance from the crawling text at whicha drop shadow is drawn Shadow Color Specifies the color of the drop shadow Direction Specifies the motion of the cra
63. ableStructure Name Weather gt lt Field Type Text gt DayPart lt Field gt lt Field Type Text gt Condition lt Field gt lt Field Type Text gt Temp lt Field gt lt Field Type Memo gt ImageURL lt Field gt lt Field Type Memo gt LocalImage lt Field gt lt TableStructure gt lt General gt The Weather table we create has the following fields e DayPart The part of the day that described by the weather data in the current row For example Today or Friday Night e Condition The weather conditions for the day part For example Mostly Sunny or Partly Cloudy Temp The temperature for the day part ImageURL The URL of the image used on the web site to depict the weather for the day part e LocalImage The path and file name of a local copy of the image We ll download the image as we parse the web page e Building the Data Source Definition Resolving the URL e g by opening it in a browser and viewing the source gives us the following raw HTML code This code contains a lot of extraneous information The part we re interested in is the Forecast at a Glance section which is highlighted in below lt doctype html public W3C DTD HTML 4 0 Transitional EN gt lt htm1 gt lt head gt lt title gt 7 Day Forecast for Latitude 40 74N and Longitude 74 01W lt title gt lt link rel STYLESHEET type text css href fonts main css gt lt head gt lt body leftmargin 0 Polycom Inc
64. ackground Polycom Inc Using Template Maker The Polycom Template Maker interface consists of two main sections the Polycom Template Maker tool and the Microsoft PowerPoint interface that launches beside the Template Maker companion window Op 9 z 19 ta Home Insert Design Animations Slide Show Review View Add Ins Acrobat rs ne EZ Layout Wr eo et Se ee tt gt l tei J t e4 fEgpReset H Paste New U abe S S Shapes Arrange sf Slide A Delete BiUa Aa Zj Clipboard T Slides Font Paragraph Drawing a mA Click to add notes GA Find aje Replace 7 Lg Select 7 Editing YY Slide 1 of 1 office Theme This document assumes familiarity with the Microsoft PowerPoint interface 105 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Navigating the Template Maker Interface The Template Maker Companion Window The diagram below depicts the Template Maker companion window as it will appear upon first launching Template Maker Toolbar Insert Flipbook Launches a dialog for viewing and controlling flipbook animations Insert Image Launches a dialog for importing an image to the current slide Insert Media Launches a dialog for selecting and previewing live video or a video clip for insertion to a slide Render Renders the current slide in the CG Renderer window Reset Resets the output 106 ma Polyco
65. ad and processing of a package this panel allows you to monitor the states of these processes Events x Time Player Event amp 10 16 12 PDSPLAY Processed ContentUpdate 201 in 10 16 08 PDSPLAY Downloaded Content pdate 2 10 16 08 PDSPLAY Downloading ContentUpdate 2 Polycom Inc 69 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Web Controller Interface Guide 70 Changing the Layout To change the layout of the above panels navigate to View and choose Horizontal Layout or Vertical Layout The Vertical Layout selected by default places the Monitor Panel to the right of the Main Panel the Horizontal Layout places it below the Main Panel A user can also freely change the look and feel by dragging and resizing the panes within the Web Controller Style The style selection menu allows users to choose a different visual style for the Web Controller Polycom Inc Control Panel Using the Web Controller Control Panel Control Panel Polycom Inc The Control Panel provides a set of direct controls over the Players in the associated network The Control Panel is the starting point for content management on Players Greater detail is provided on the subsequent tabs in the PDS Web Controller but the Control Panel gives immediate access to overarching controls Player Controls Clear Screen Load Playlist Announcement Crawl Text Se T Emergency Crawl Text merr Player Contr
66. ails to render and an alert appears at the bottom of the Template Maker interface as pictured below click the alert icon 111 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Adding and Working with Slides 6 The Messages dialog will appear Messages Clear Hide Review the information and correct your configuration as necessary Adding and Working with Slides Slides comprise all the assets scripts and data used to create a complete PDS template While individual assets may have their own properties slides may themselves include functions that modify content as it appears on screen All properties added to a slide are slide specific 112 Modifying General Slide Properties Polycom Template Maker lets you customize the options available to slides To access these properties select the slide you wish to modify The name Slide appears in the Selected Object area The general properties associated with a slide are defined as follows Slide name Name used to reference the slide within the digital signage solution Render With Alpha If set to True each slide element is rendered individually Objects that contain alpha channels are composited against a background as expected If set to False the slide is rendered as a single image Smooth Slide If set to True additional anti aliasing will be applied to the slide when rendered when Render with Alpha is set to False Check For Duplicate Names If set t
67. al matches Delimiter C Sort results Sort Field X Ticker Interval 49 KX Max Records g sec 0 for no limit C Advance to next slide after last record C Copy data file to prevent file lacking Auto start on load Fi Run script on change C Pertorm action on change Script Function a v Define Actions 8 Enable the Render output on change field which automatically updates the ticker on the output when the object changes values In the Data Source area of the Ticker Properties dialog box click the Browse button to link to a database filename 9 To begin retrieving data from the first row of the database enter 1 in the Starting Row field 10 To display one or more records at a time adjust the parameter in the Return X records s at a time field 11 To continuously display or to wrap the records contained in a database enable the Loop records and Wrap records options The Text Search options are described as follows e Table Worksheet box Select the database table that contains the data you want to display Click View to view the entire data file e Search Field box Select a field based on the table selection e Search Text field Specify a string for which to search e View button Lets you view the data contained in the selected data e Allow partial matches Enable to allow for the string to be matched by the first few characters and to find matching
68. ally heading out four city exclusive engagement announ 4 To stop the crawl click Stop Crawl in the Web Controller The Player Selection screen will appear again indicate which Player you wish to target and click OK Polycom Inc 75 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Playlist Editor Playlist Editor The Playlist Editor tab in the Web Controller provides controls over playlists displayed in the PDS Player Playlist Editor vetavitrisylist xpist Available Playlists Playlist Duration Lay Janae i Paame 111 Remove f toaa mozo pm 1s CO Bc To raams rt eer 1s Co EE ETE ee T To create edit or play Playlists via the Playlist Editor 1 Select a Playlist from the Available Playlists drop down range 76 Polycom Inc Playlist Editor Polycom Inc Using the Web Controller a To retrieve a specific Playlist from a player for editing click Retrieve from Player The Player Selection window will appear choose a player and a playlist and click OK Player Playlists M PDS Server Playlist Name f PDS Network C DefaultPlaylist xplst fp PDS Network 2 PolycomNewsPlaylist xplst Ow P PDS Network 3 Au e_MasterPlayplist xplst PDSPLAYER ia oO lem J POSPLAYERS e_Playlist_Snooker xplst b To create anew playlist click New The Save As dialog appears Enter a name and click OK m VBScript Save As Enter new playlist name Cancel NewPlaylist
69. ata Source About the PDS Data Parser The Polycom Digital Signage Data Parser allows administrators to acquire manage and use live RSS feeds as a data source for the Polycom Digital Signage Player output With the Data Parser administrators can publish feeds from individual news outlets topic based searches and specific geographies to any audience While this chapter outlines the RSS use case for the PDS Data Parser the Data Parser can also ingest data from a wide variety of other sources For information on other use cases please consult Appendix B Data Parser on page 171 Creating a Data Source In order to use an external feed in the Polycom Digital Signage Player a data source must be created in the PDS Data Parser To create a data source 1 Launch the Polycom Digital Signage Data Parser 2 Open Tools gt RSS Wizard Polycom Inc 147 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Creating a Data Source 3 The RSS Wizard will appear Click Next Welcome to the RSS Data Feed Parser Wizard This Wizard will step you through the process of creating a new data parser for an RSS feed of your choice Previous Next gt Finish 4 You will be prompted to designate a Data Feed Name and Database File which should be changed from the default These values must contain no spaces You will also be prompted to enter the URL for your data source a Enter the URL of the feed If you wish to browse for a fee
70. ated as index aware For an example of this see the Data Source Tutorial below Data Source Tutorial Polycom Inc This section walks through the construction of a Data Source definition that extracts weather data from the U S National Weather Service web site This tutorial assumes the reader is familiar with HTML syntax NOTE This tutorial was written using the U S Weather Service web site The U S Weather Service may have changed their web site since writing and so there is no guarantee that this tutorial will still work now The tutorial is presented purely to illustrate Data Parser concepts In this tutorial we ll parse the weather data for New York City as obtained from the URL http www srh noaa gov zipcity _php inputstring 10005 177 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Data Source Tutorial 178 General Settings The general settings for the weather data source are straightforward We tell Data Parser to refresh the feed every hour i e 3600 seconds to allow duplicate rows in the table to fetch the feed from http www srh noaa gov zipcity php inputstring 10005 and to store the parsed data in a table named Weather in the DataFeeds mdb database lt General gt lt RefreshInterval gt 3600 lt RefreshInterval gt lt Al lowDuplicates gt True lt Al lowDuplicates gt lt Url gt http ww srh noaa gov zipcity php inputstring 10005 lt Ur1 gt lt Database gt DataFeeds mdb lt Database gt lt T
71. ayer visibility to match styles The options outlined in dashed red dictate table style the options outlined in solid blue dictate background style Selection and Visibility vx Shapes on this Slide XXX_MeetingBlocko2 4 MeetingNameO1 E Time01 XXX_MeetingBlocko1 Location05 E Location04 a Location03 E Location02 Ej Location01 E Date E Title_Text a r 10X Bar Blue g XXX_Bar_Green a l l XXX _Bar_Red Ld XXX_Bar_White XXX_BG_World LJ l XXX_BG_Floral L XXX X86 Black BG_CloudsBlurred BG_Machine BG_GreyDrops BG_CloudsWater BG_Clouds BG_BlueWorld BG_RedWorld BG_GreenWorld BG _Floral 6 Once you have made your changes save the PowerPoint slide and click Open in the selection dialog 7 Click OK to complete template editing AddOn Video Clip PowerPoint Message The AddOn Video Clip PowerPoint Message template displays a 4x3 video file PowerPoint ticker and text file To configure an AddOn Video Clip PowerPoint Message template Polycom Inc 85 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Playlist Editor 86 Click Params The Template Parameters screen will appear Template Parameters ClipFilename C XpresenterContent Projects PolycomLobbyProject Videos 4x3 AlllnSight 520x390 stanc PPT_Ticker C XpresenterContent Projects Lobby Project PPT Tickers PP_Ticker_Events ppt a Mes C XpresenterContent Projects Lobby Project Data Video_and_PPT_Message t
72. ble entries with no value for this column The default for AllowEmpty is True The KeyField attribute can also be either True or False When set to True Data Parser will require unique values in this column for all the entries in Polycom Inc Data Source Definition File Overview Polycom Inc Appendix B Data Parser the table and will create an index for this column The default for KeyField is False Regardless of the table structure schema Data Parser always inserts two additional columns into the table An ID column that contains a serial number for each row Serial numbers start at 1 for the first row and are incremented by one for each additional row in the table A Last Update column that contains the date and time the row was added to the table This is generally the same value for all rows unless Data Parser is creating a table with a particularly large number of rows or if the parsing work required for each row is quite long e An optional lt PublishFile gt element identifies an XML file which will contain a copy of the data table generated by this data source Here is a simple example of a lt General gt element This example instructs Data Parser to parse the data feed at http www example com news html every 300 seconds and to store the results in a file named Example mdb in a table named SampleTable with three Text columns Headline Reporter and Date lt General gt lt Url gt http ww examp
73. books To import an image directly onto a slide do the following 1 2 Select the slide in PowerPoint On the Template Maker toolbar click the Insert Flipbook button The Select File dialog box appears To import a flipbook from the Content Library select the Content Library icon and browse to select the first image from a flipbook series and click OK The selected flipbook appears on the slide To import a flipbook from another location on your system select the All Files icon and browse to select the first image from a flipbook series and click OK The selected flipbook appears on the slide 127 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Adding and Editing a Crawl Modifying Flipbook Properties The Flipbook Properties tab reveals options associated specifically with a flipbook and are defined as follows e Filename The file path and first filename of the flipbook sequence The source of the flipbook can be modified by clicking on the filename path selecting the browse button and choosing a new source filename e Preview Shows a thumbnail preview of the flipbook Click the image to show flipbook playback controls in order to preview the flipbook e Loop If set to true the flipbook will loop continuously on the output e Loopback Frame Frame to start from after every loop This option is useful for when a flipbook sequence contains an introduction portion that need not repeat after successiv
74. box to load templates or playlist files Clear Removes the contents of a previously loaded playlist from the Player Reset All Clears the output of the CG rendering window Playlist Controls The PDS playlist controls are described as follows Polycom Inc The PDS Player Interface Using the PDS Player Button Function Pauses the playback of the currently loaded playlist When paused resumes playback of the currently loaded playlist Plays the previous event in the currently loaded playlist Plays the next event in the currently loaded playlist Jumps to the first event in the currently loaded playlist Jumps to the last event in the currently loaded playlist E S RE RE Message Control Clear A Show messages e When Show Messages is enabled displays messages from the PDS Player The Clear button clears the contents of the Messages window Current Output Window e When Enable Auto Screenshot is enabled displays a preview of the current output of the PDS Player Polycom Inc 19 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Scheduling Events with the PDS Player Scheduling Events with the PDS Player Scheduler Default Open Save Save As March 2010 TW TF Ss 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 123s 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 23031 1 2 3 4 Interval mins 15 gt F oO 20 With the PDS Scheduler you can create p
75. cally advances to the next playlist event when the audio playlist ends Playlist Volume Audio playout level from 0 100 Use Default Master Volume If set to True uses default master volume defined by the Master Volume setting Use Custom Mixer Settings Applies settings created in the Mixer to audio in the playlist To add an audio clip to the slide s Audio Playlist 1 In the Audio Playlist area choose Add File The Select File dialog box appears Polycom Inc Adding and Editing Text Images and Media Using Template Maker 2 To browse to an audio clip on disk click the browse button A standard file explorer dialog box appears 3 Select an audio file and choose Open The audio file appears in the Audio Playlist 4 To preview the audio file select the file from the Audio Playlist and choose Preview 5 To remove the audio file select the file from the Audio Playlist and choose Remove File To add another audio file to the Audio Playlist choose Add File To change the playlist order of audio in the Audio Playlist select a file and press CTRL up or CTRL down as desired Adding and Editing Text Images and Media The following section will outline how to use the tools in Template Maker to augment the template creation tools within PowerPoint text remains a consistent size in Template Maker and the Polycom Digital Signage display It will not resize in the renderer Render a template with text from
76. cense and DP ID fields exist and are populated with data the Data Parser should be installed on the target Player To use a data source in a playlist in a remote PDS Player 1 Open the Remote Manager 2 If the data source has been created on a remote PDS Player you will need to a Right click on the PDS Player and open the Management Console Open the File Manager tab of the Management Console c Navigate to C PolycomContent Data Locate the xdsrc file for the data source you created in the previous section Name Size E DataFeeds_TestFeed xdsrc 21 081 f dataparserl png 76 534 E lib_Trivia xls 30 720 NYR_TestFeed mdb 745 472 NYR_TestFeed xdsrc 204 555 NY_NYRegion mdb 352 256 3 NY_NYRegion xdsre 17 715 E PolycomFeed_PolycomFeed mdb 208 896 B PolycomFeed_PolycomFeed xdsrc 4 994 fe snooker_Snooker mdb 270 336 fe snooker_Snooker xdsre 4 318 B Uknews_UKNews mdb 618 496 B Uknews_UKNews xdsre 9 157 fe YahooFeeds_TestFeed123 mdb 376 832 fe YahooFeeds_TestFeed123 xdsrc 21 081 lt Date 3 12 3 15 178 2 3 157 3 157 3 127 3 12 3 167 3 167 3 157 3 157 3 167 3 167 3 12 3 127 2i A v d Download the xdsrc file to the computer running Remote Manager e When the download has completed close the Management Console and return to the Remote Manager main interface 3 In the Remote Manager main interface click Publish Conten
77. cessary to strip out unwanted text or to automatically add characters to the feed The Format of the Search amp Replace list is as follows SearchText ReplaceText For example to automatically format incoming data enter the following into the Search amp Replace list lt CDATAL l gt The Search amp Replace will modify this string of text as follows Unformatted raw data lt CDATA Polycom announces its Digital Signage Solution gt Formatted data Polycom announces its Digital Signage Solution If you wish to exclude items with certain words or phrases in the title indicate those words and phrases Click Next 149 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Creating a Data Source 150 7 The Story Format window will appear Se SEES r Story Format Case Conversion Defaut UpperCase LowerCase Initial Caps Search and Replace List Format lt SearchT ext gt lt ReplaceT ext gt Exclude records containing the following words one word or phrase per line I Concatenate title and story text Separator Cancel lt Previous IE a Choose a Case Conversion method if necessary to modify the capitalization of all text contained in the Story section of the feed b If necessary enter Search and Replace formatting as described above c Ifyou wish to exclude items with certain words or phrases in the body indicate those words a
78. ch the slide template dimensions e Auto size slide to match output When selected the resolution of the slide template is automatically scaled to match the resolution of the video output window e Dual monitor mode When selected configures the PDS Player display output to appear on a second monitor This mode can also be used for cloning the display This supports multiuple monitors from one Player See the Polycom Digital Signage Player Getting Started Guide for more details Polycom Inc 7 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Startup Settings e Full screen When selected the PDS Player output will be displayed in full screen mode either on the primary or secondary display When unselected the PDS Player output will be displayed ina separate window Output Window Zoom Select to resize the CG Rendering window to 100 full size or 50 half size when the Full screen mode is disabled e Wait on VSync Depending on the features and the performance of your system s graphics card adapter select one of the following options True Significant loss of system performance with a high quality graphics output result Hybrid Improved system performance with some loss in the quality of the graphics output result False Best possible performance with a low quality graphics output result Capture Settings Capture Settings determine how video and audio are interpreted for input to the PDS Player 4 NOTE
79. choose Add To delete a ticker select the ticker in the Clocks and Tickers tab and choose Remove To copy a ticker from one slide to another select the ticker in the Clocks and Tickers tab and choose Copy To paste a ticker that s been previously copied from the Clocks and Tickers tab choose Paste To make changes to a ticker select the ticker in the Clocks and Tickers tab and choose Edit Other options available in the Ticker Properties dialog box specific to Tickers are described as follows Ticker Interval sec Time between when text objects are refreshed with new data from the database in seconds Polycom Inc Working with Objects Using Template Maker Auto start on load Begins displaying items in the database immediately after the slide is rendered to the screen Advance to next slide after last record Proceed to the next slide in the playlist after all records from the database have been displayed Copy data file to prevent locking Some database files such as Microsoft Excel spreadsheets may produce errors when simultaneously reading and or writing to them from external applications To let Template Maker create a local copy of the database file for use with tickers and to prevent file locking enable this option Additional ticker options are described as follows Run script on change If set to True execute script functions whenever the text is dynamically updated Script Function
80. content elements can be changed at any time without requiring entire video segments to be re rendered whenever a change is needed Polycom Digital Signage Server The Polycom Digital Signage Server automatically distributes new content to remote locations and receives continuous status updates from all Polycom Digital Signage Players Polycom Digital Signage Remote Manager The Polycom Digital Signage Remote Manager application works with the Polycom Digital Signage Server to enable administration of networks of players Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Architecture Overview Polycom Digital Signage Web Controller The Polycom Digital Signage Web Controller software lets users easily update and manage content on the Players in a Polycom Digital Signage network with point and click simplicity Polycom Digital Signage Agent The Polycom Digital Signage Agent software is the link between Players and the Server enabling network status and health monitoring Architecture Overview f is 4 j PDS Player v SSL a Web Controller _ v PDS Player m gt Central Server ae See O Remote Manager EE PDS Player onlin The image above presents an overview of the Polycom Digital Signage solution depicting the overarching architecture for the various components of the solution Content in the form of templates assets and playlists is created assembled and managed using the Polycom Digital S
81. d click Search RSS Feeds b Your internet browser will launch By default the Data Parser will take you to Yahoo News RSS feeds c Choose a feed from the list presented or enter a topic or keyword into the Search textbox In the example below we have set a filter for Polycom in Yahoo News General Settings Name of Data Feed PolycomFeed URL http news search yahoo com news ss ylt 49 8eu4c25LAKGB f Name of Database File PolycomFeed mdb Refresh Interval e00 Search RSS Feeds Cancel lt Previous f Finish 148 Polycom Inc Creating a Data Source Using the Data Parser 5 After designating a Data Feed name URL and Database File enter the Refresh Interval This value determines the time in seconds between live updates of the RSS feed Click Next 6 The Title Format window will appear a RSS Wizard T s _ Polycom Inc Title Format Case Conversion Defaut UpperCase LowerCase Initial Caps Search and Replace List Format lt SearchText gt lt ReplaceT ext gt Exclude records containing the following words one word or phrase per line Cancel lt Previous Choose a Case Conversion method if necessary to modify the capitalization of all text contained in the Title Headline section of the feed Enter a series of Search amp Replace character strings if ne
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83. d PowerPoint slide backgrokg Position Default x Position 0 Y Position 0 Width 1280 Height 720 Show Clip Proxy True Auto Advance False Cue Next Clip False Clip Filename Preview Click image to show controls The background properties associated with a slide are defined as follows e Background Determines what is displayed as the background when the slide is rendered Options available are Live Video Input Video Clip PowerPoint slide background No background See directions following for more information e X Position Horizontal positioning of the slide background in pixels when Position is set to Custom e Y Position Vertical positioning of the slide background in pixels when Position is set to Custom e Width Width of the slide background in pixels when Position is set to Custom e Height Height positioning of the slide background in pixels when Position is set to Custom 113 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Adding and Working with Slides 114 Show Clip Proxy If set to True displays a thumbnail from a selected video clip as the background of the slide when Background is set to Video Clip If False color bars are shown instead Auto Advance If set to True automatically advance to the next event in the playlist when the background video clip ends when Background is set to Video Clip Also overrides specified slide duration settings Cue Next C
84. d in your digital signage application including video clips live video feeds live internet video streams and even complete web pages To import media directly onto a slide do the following 1 Select the slide in PowerPoint 2 On the Template Maker toolbar click the Insert Media button 3 A video color bar placeholder graphic appears on the slide Modifying Media Properties The Video Properties tab reveals options associated specifically with a media file and are defined as follows Seat at es General Video Properties Media Source Clip Run Script On Change False Script Module Script Function Run Action On Change False Audio Volume 100 Set Video Clip Properties Define Actions e Media Source Selects the video source type Options available are Clip Video In Video Stream Web Page This choice affects the configuration availabilities e Set Video Clip Properties Opens the Video Properties dialog box to define the source of the media clip and set additional properties See the following section for more information e Define Actions button Opens the Action Editor dialog box to create actions associated with dynamic clips Source Specific Configuration e Clip Run Script on Change If set to True execute script functions whenever the clip is dynamically updated Polycom Inc Adding and Editing Text Images and Media Using Template Maker Script Module Name of VBSc
85. d will show the output from the Player as taken from the computer s graphics card The thumbnail refresh interval is set by the Auto Refresh menu in the toolbar e The System Info tab provides some basic system information such as software and operating system versions for each Player e The Packages tab shows the file download packages that have been defined for the selected network The Events pane shows a table of recent system events on the Players in the selected network much like a shared log file The most recent events will appear at the top of the table Polycom Inc Tool Bar Using the Remote Manager Current Incidents Pane The Current Incidents pane shows the actual log messages from PDS Server and the PDS Remote Manager The events shown here are all major and minor log messages from the Polycom PDS Server and the PDS Remote Manager including the events shown in the Events pane Status Bar Finally the status bar at the very bottom of the PDS Remote Manager window shows you the current status of PDS Remote Manager indicating the name of the PDS Server the number of Players and managers currently connected to the PDS Server and the name of your currently selected network In addition to the PDS Remote Manager main window shown here PDS Remote Manager will bring up smaller windows for specific tasks such as managing a Player or creating a file package The PDS Remote Manager main window wi
86. dth Specifies the horizontal extent of the crawl across the screen in pixels Height Specifies the vertical extent of the crawl across the screen in pixels Text YPos Specifies the vertical positioning of the crawl text within the crawl bar in pixels Image YPos Specifies the vertical positioning of the separator image within the craw bar in pixels Crawl Spacing Specifies the distance between lines of crawl data in pixels 133 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Adding Clocks and Tickers Adding Clocks and Tickers 134 Adding a Clock Using Template Maker text boxes can be configured to receive dynamic text such as a running clock or date field as opposed to simple text that is entered at design time into the text box itself You can display a clock on a slide and keep it on for the entire production The clock s time is updated as its content is replaced on a continuous basis To specify the date or time in a text box 1 2 In PowerPoint create a text box object and select it In the General tab of Template Maker enter a descriptive name for the text box in the Display Name field In the Current Slide area click Slide The available slide properties appear Click the Next gt gt tab to reveal more slide properties and choose Clocks and Tickers The TickerList area appears In the Clocks and Tickers tab choose Add The Ticker Properties dialog box appears In t
87. e Administrator Guide Scheduling Events with the PDS Player 24 To edit a scheduled event 1 Inthe PDS Scheduler select the event you want to edit and right click 2 Inthe menu that appears select Edit Event The Add Schedule Event dialog appears r fil Edit Schedule Event Event Filename Load Presentation _ C Content Templates lib Lobby Crawl 43F7F072 lib Lobby Cre aa Event Time Preroll Secs Event Date 05 15PM v 0 3 9 2010 F Execute event when previous playlist ends event will be advanced or delayed based on playlist length C Recurring Event Recurrence Pattern Daily 9 Every 1 day s HEE Every weekday Monthly Range of Recurrence Start No end date End after 1 occurrence s End by To immediately execute a scheduled event 1 Inthe PDS Scheduler select the event you want to execute and right click 2 Inthe menu that appears select Run Event Now To save and activate a schedule 1 Inthe PDS Scheduler click Save As 2 Inthe Save As dialog box provide a name for the schedule and choose Save 3 The name of the schedule appears at the bottom of the PDS Player next to Active Schedule Polycom Inc Controlling the VertigoCG Renderer Using the PDS Player Controlling the VertigoCG Renderer The PDS Player lets you gain access to the CG rendering engine directly This lets you start and stop the CG as desired To start and stop the VertigoCG do the following
88. e XPT ini The file editor will launch B XPT ini C Program Files Xpresenter XPT ini DOR Reload Save To Players 5 4 Ga A Fie Edit Format PlayerSettings HideEULA 1 Enab leScreenshot False DefaultTransition 2 StartMinimized True AutoLoadPlaylist True LockUI False Password xX20 HideSplashsScreen False LastPlaylist C XpresenterContent Playlists Test New xplst LastPlaylistIndex 1 DisplayScreenshot True PlaylistStartOption 0 ExecutePreviousscheduleEvent False AdvancelIfassetsMissing False MasterSchedule C XpresenterContent Schedules MasterSchedule xsc PlayerSchedule C XpresenterContent Schedules PlayerSchedule xsc Branding SplashImage C Program Files Xpresenter PolycomSplash_PL png SplashVersionTextColor 0 SplashLicenseTextColor 0 SplashMessageTextColor 0 SplashCopyrightTextColor 0 SplashCopyrightMessage Copyright Title Polycom Digital Signage Player Icon C Program Files Xpresenter Polycom PL ico 5 To change the output resolution of the target player or players a Scroll to Output Settings b If your Player uses one of the standard resolutions enter a value for StandardOutputDims Please note that this value corresponds to the order of appearance in the drop down menu in the Player Settings Standard 024x768 F 640x480 E 20 480 3 _ 720x486 Orientation 720x576 800x600 Auto size outpu 10242768 V Auto size slide t 1280x720 1280x1024 v Dual monito
89. e for Measurable Precipitation 80 gt lt br gt Heavy lt br gt Rain lt br gt Lo lt font color 0033CC gt 69 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Friday lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf hi_tsra20 jpg width 55 height 58 alt Slight Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 20 title Slight Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 20 gt lt br gt Slight Chc lt br gt Tstms lt br gt Hi lt font color FF0000 gt 85 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Friday lt br gt Night lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf hi_ntsra20 jpg width 55 height 58 alt Slight Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 20 title Slight Chance Thunderstorms Chance for Measurable Precipitation 20 gt lt br gt Slight Chc lt br gt Tstms lt br gt Lo lt font Polycom Inc Data Source Tutorial Polycom Inc Appendix B Data Parser gt 6 amp deg F lt width 11 gt lt b gt Saturday lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf few jpg width 55 height 58 alt Mostly Sunny title Mostly Sunny gt lt br gt Mostly lt br gt Sunny lt br gt Hi lt font color FFO000 gt 86 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Saturday lt br gt Night lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf nfew jpg width 55 height 58 alt Mostly Clear title Mostly Clear gt lt br gt Mostly l
90. e loops of the animation e Frame Rate Flipbook frame rate in frames per second This option is useful to control the overall timing of the flipbook for example if the sequence was rendered at a frame rate different from the desired playback frame rate e Proxy Frame Sets the proxy thumbnail in the PowerPoint slide to be the frame specified when choosing Set Proxy Image Adding and Editing a Crawl With Polycom Template Maker creating a crawl is quick and simple Crawls can be global each slide in the presentation can display a crawl without having to create a new crawl for each slide Crawls can also be local so that each slide has its own specific crawl Crawl data can be entered manually by the operator during playout or the data can be fed automatically from any external live data feed a text file or a database file Crawls are available as slide properties Crawls are also interchangeably referred to as crawling tickers Basic Crawl Configuration To modify the properties of a crawl do the following 1 Select a slide in PowerPoint 2 InTemplate Maker click the Slide indicator in the Current Slide area 128 Polycom Inc Adding and Editing a Crawl Using Template Maker 3 In the Selected Object area select the Crawl tab The slide crawl properties appear General Background Crawl Actions gt gt Crawl Action Do nothing Set Crawl Properties Select a crawl action from the drop down
91. e selected command modify its time by adjusting the H Hour M Minute S Seconds properties 115 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Adding and Working with Slides 116 10 11 12 Choose OK to close the Command Builder dialog box The action appears in the Playlist Editor To delete a command select a command in the Playlist Editor and choose Delete To edit a command select a command in the Playlist Editor and choose Edit or double click on the command Choose OK to close the Playlist Editor The list of commands appear in the Playlist area To edit the playlist choose Edit Playlist Adding Audio to a Slide The Polycom Digital Signage solution supports mp3 wma and wav audio formats Add as many audio files as you like to the audio playlist The audio properties associated with a slide are defined as follows Reset Audio False Play Audio Playlist False Audio Timing Transition End Playlist Volume 100 Use Default Master Volume True Use Custom Mixer Settings False E rr Clocks and Tickers Audio Logging Set Mixer Settings Reset Audio If set to True automatically stops any previous audio that is playing when the slide is rendered to the output Play Audio Clip If set to True plays audio clip s added to the Audio Playlist Loop If available and set to True loops audio added to the Audio Playlist Auto Advance If available and set to True automati
92. e useful for an organization with multiple player roles internal customer facing marketing driven and news driven players could be grouped across networks and receive massede content updates Manage Groups Players Groups GBPDSPLAYER1 10 1 195 62 PDS Network 2 e s Create Group New Group Name MyGroup1 1 Right click on a Server Network or subnetwork in the Networks and Groups Pane Select Manage Groups from the context menu The Manage Groups window will appear Click Create Group Name the group and click OK Drag and drop the PDS Players you wish to include in the group If you wish to delete or rename a group right click on the group ao oan FB WO ND Click Apply and OK The groups you have created and any changes you have made to the groups should appear in the Networks and Groups pane 38 Polycom Inc Network and Groups Pane Edit Properties of Players BR Using the Remote Manager Manage Players The Networks and Groups Pane allows direct configuration changes to the Players on a Server Player Name PDSPLAYER3 gt PDSPLAYER PDSPLAYER1 Polycom Inc Notes 3 17 2010 1 39 20 Player moved to Polycom 23 network 0 3 1 3 17 2010 1 7 51 Player moved to Polycom 23 network Cancel Save Right click on a Server Network or subnetwork in the Networks and Groups Pane Select Manage Players from the context menu The Edit Properties
93. each of the 9 table cells On the first iteration the rule extracts the contents of the first table cell width 11 gt lt b gt Today lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf tsra70 jpg width 55 height 58 alt Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 70 title Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 70 gt lt br gt Heavy lt br gt Rain lt br gt Hi lt font color FFO000 gt 81 F lt font gt On the second iteration the rule extracts the contents of the second table cell width 11 gt lt b gt Toni ght lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf ntsra80 jpg width 55 height 58 alt Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 80 title Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 80 gt lt br gt Heavy lt br gt Rain lt br gt Lo lt font color 0033CC gt 69 F lt font gt And so on for each of the 9 iterations Polycom Inc Data Source Tutorial Polycom Inc Appendix B Data Parser Now that we ve isolated the weather data for a single day part we can extract that data and save it in a row of our table First we obtain the name of the day part using a GetTag rule to extract the text the lies between the lt b gt and lt b gt tags in the DaySource container lt ParsingRule type GetTag source DaySource result DayPart gt lt StartTag gt amp lt b amp gt lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp 1t b amp gt lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt There s
94. ebcast Using the Web Controller 2 To change the order of appearance of the clips in the list use the upward and downward facing arrows to rearrange the clips 3 To remove a selected clip click Remove To remove all clips from a list click Clear All 4 Click Save Changes to save changes to the clip list Click Load to update the template and display your changes Message Board Webcast The Message Board tab allows Content Managers to configure the Message Board playlist template or to stop the playlist and play a live webcast in its place Message Text Se a aol Sean Load Webcast Reload Playlist ee Polycom Inc 97 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Message Board Webcast 98 To edit the Message Board 1 Edit the Text field as necessary To remove all text from the field click Clear Click Save to save the text in the field To interrupt the playlist and show the updated Message Board click Load Message Screen To reload the playlist with the updated Message Board click Restart Playlist To load a webcast 1 Indicate the URL of the webcast stream Please note that the webcast should be in Windows Media Player compatible format Click Apply URL Choose a target Player from the selection wizard Click Start Webcast The webcast will start to play When the webcast has concluded navigate to Reload Playlist Choose a Playlist to play and click Load Click Refresh to restart the given
95. ecutable File dialog will appear Choose a file and click Open 3 The Package Properties dialog will appear Package Properties Commandline FILE VERYSILENT SUPPRESSMSGBOXES LOG install og Cancel Run as interactive user using context of user session Package Processing Schedule C Extract run package only between 1U 0U UY t C On specific date If you wish to designate a specific timeframe in which to extract the package after publishing do so in the Package Processing Schedule area The Command line should not be altered from the default Click OK The Package will be compressed and published 5 Consult the Events tab to ensure that the package has published and run 6 Upon installing a software update the PDS Player application will not automatically relaunch Access the PDS Player via RDP and relaunch the Player application manually or enter RESTART in the command space in Remote Manager and direct it to the Player 36 Polycom Inc Network and Groups Pane Using the Remote Manager Network and Groups Pane The Networks amp Groups pane shows a tree view of the hierarchy of networks and groups of Players managed by the PDS Server The network or group you select here will select the Players shown in the Network pane and the operations performed on those Players Networks amp Groups g amp PDS Network gly PDS Network 2 g amp PDS Network 24 g amp PDS Network 3 If you select a ne
96. ed by the PDS Server can be changed via the PDS Server Configuration Utility 161 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Downloading and Installing the Agent To change ports 1 Open the PDS Server Configuration Utility 2 Inthe Server tab provide a new Primary Port and Secondary Port NOTE Please be sure that the ports you choose are open and available for use Click Save in the PDS Server Configuration Utility toolbar In the Service tab click Stop to stop the Polycom Digital Signage Server Start the service aoa Aa Q If the Primary Port is open and available for use the new port can be used in all subsequent connection and configuration processes Downloading and Installing the Agent 162 All PDS Players ship with the Player Agent preinstalled and preconfigured The default Player Agent will not be able to communicate with a Server that has been changed through the PDS Server Configuration Utility Users who have made changes to the default Server settings must reinstall the Player Agent on each Player Appliance To download the agent 1 Right click on the network you intend to use in the left pane and choose Download Agent Setup Networks amp Groups Network PDS Network 2 PDS Server gly PDS Network Connections Player Status Screenshots System Info PDS IP Add 10 118 Computer Name Online PDSPLAYER3 yes puter IP Address 2 Download the ins
97. efs End by 37972010 Polycom Inc 21 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Scheduling Events with the PDS Player 4 Inthe Event box select Load Presentation You can also select any of the following and schedule its playout Load Presentation Schedules playout of a complete presentation Load Slide Schedules playout of an individual slide You must select the presentation and specific slide Load Playlist Schedules playout of a playlist Browse to select a playlist xplst file Execute Script Schedules when to execute a script xsc file that controls a slideshow presentation for broadcast Run Program Schedules when to launch an executable program Unload All Presentations Removes any loaded presentations or slides that have been loaded into the PDS Player Reset All Clears the output of the CG renderer Unload and Reset All Removes any loaded presentations or slides that have been loaded into the PDS Player and clears the output of the CG renderer 5 Inthe Filename field click Browse and select a presentation If you want to change the time in the Event Time box set the time at which to start playing the presentation In the Preroll box set the number of seconds Set the start date in the Event Date box If you want to repeat the presentation playout enable Recurring Event The Recurrence Pattern options appear 7 Recurring Event Recurrence Pattern j Daily Recurevery 1
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99. ename File List Data Source Color Font Boolean Default Value Specifies what placeholder text or link to file appears by default when initially inserting the object into the slide Click OK to close the Template Parameter Properties dialog box In the Template Settings dialog box to remove a parameter select one in the Object Parameters list and choose Remove To copy a parameter select one in the Template Parameters list and choose Copy To paste a copied parameter choose Paste To make changes to a parameter select one in the Template Parameters list and choose Edit In the Template Properties area in the Description field enter a description for the template to export In the Preroll box set the number of seconds In the Slide Duration box set the number of seconds the template is to remain on screen To include additional content associated with the template choose Additional Files To export the current slide as a template choose Export Current Slide To export multiple slides as multiple templates choose Export All Slides Click Close to close the Template Settings dialog box 145 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Saving a Template 146 Polycom Inc Using the Data Parser This chapter explains the interface and use of the Polycom Digital Signage Data Parser This chapter contains the following sections e About the PDS Data Parser e Creating a Data Source e Using a D
100. ent dialogue This tool is used to move content packages to PDS Player systems Please note that in most implementations content updates will be performed through the PDS Web Controller rather than the Remote Manager The Remote Manager communicates directly with remote Players through the PDS Server The publication process performs an inventory check against contents stored on remote Players If content is missing the Remote Manager creates a package to transfer to the Players A package is a compressed archive containing all assets missing from the remote Player as well as all content added through the Publish Content tool Polycom Inc Tool Bar Using the Remote Manager Publish New Content Click Publish Content to bring up the Publish Content dialog The dialog has a Package Name field at the top enter the name of your content package here and three tabs in the main section amp Publish Content DEOR Package Nane Drag your files here To publish content 1 Click Add Files to select files from your computer to be added to the package You may select multiple files in the file browser by holding down Shift and clicking the file icons In the Assets view you may also drag and drop the files you wish to publish Polycom Inc 33 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Tool Bar 34 a The Assets tab and the Detail File List tab allow you to select from two different views of the list of files i
101. er Double click on the PDS Web Controller setup exe file The PDS Web Controller setup screen appears Click Next Setup PDS Web Control Welcome to the PDS Web Control Setup Wizard This will install PDS Web Control 1 0 21 1 on your computer It is recommended that you close all other applications before continuing Click Next to continue or Cancel to exit Setup www polycom com F Polycom Inc Installing the Web Controller Using the Web Controller 4 Designate a destination for the file The default directory C Program Files Polycom PDS Web Controller is recommended Click Next Setup PDS Web Control Select Destination Location Where should PDS Web Control be installed ar Setup will install PDS Web Control into the following folder To continue click Next If you would like to select a different folder click Browse C Program Files Polycom PDS Web Control At least 768 6 MB of free disk space is required 5 Choose a folder to appear in the Start Menu Click Next Setup PDS Web Control Select Start Menu Folder Where should Setup place the program s shortcuts F Setup will create the program s shortcuts in the following Start Menu folder To continue click Next If you would like to select a different folder click Browse Poycom Digtal Signagd Polycom Inc 63 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Opening the Web Controller 6 A review screen wil
102. er Management Console at the same time and you may also have multiple Management Console windows open at once However keep in mind that each open Management Console window receives a refreshed set of screenshots every five seconds so each open window will consume additional network bandwidth Tool Bar The tool bar contains a number of buttons for performing management tasks on the Player Start Process File Manager _ GReboot Set License EJMonitoring Settings _ O Edt Config Restart Polycom Player_ Playlist 7B Load Command pE Send Tools Start Process The Start Process button allows you to start a new process on the Player Click the button to bring up the Start Process dialog Start Process File Name c Polycom Agent exe Arguments l Working Directory c Polycom Use context of logged on user g Start On Inthe File Name field enter the full path on the Player of the program to run Polycom Inc 51 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Remote Player Management Console 52 Inthe Arguments field enter the command line parameters if any Inthe Working Directory field enter the full path of the directory on the Player that will be the working directory for the new process Tocancel and return to the Remote Player Management Console click Cancel Toschedule the process on multiple Players click Start On You will be bro
103. erature In each table cell the temperature string is always found between a lt br gt tag and a closing lt font gt tag e g lt br gt Hi lt font color FF0000 gt 81 F lt font gt So we use those tags in a GetTag rule to extract the temperature lt ParsingRule type GetTag source DaySource result Temp gt lt StartTag gt amp lt br amp gt lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp 1t font amp gt lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt This gets us the temperature but with the string lt font color FFO000 gt embedded inside We want to keep the Hi or Lo part so we just want to remove that opening lt font gt element If you look at the HTML code you ll see that Hi temperatures get a font color of FF0000 while Lo temperatures get 0033CC Since we want to remove the font tag regardless of what color is specified we use a ReplaceTag rule to remove everything from the lt font to the Wolly lt ParsingRule type ReplaceTag source Temp result Temp gt lt StartTag gt amp lt font lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp gt lt EndTag gt lt NewText gt lt ParsingRule gt 187 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Data Source Tutorial 188 Finally let s extract the day part s weather image URL and download the image file so that it s available on the local machine The image URL is made up of the web site address http www erh noaa gov concatenated with the value of the HTML lt img
104. ers Window appears Template Parameters ce Polycom eed_PolycomFeed Title Polycom News Categon a Click the Add File or button beside the Datasource Field Locate the xdsrc file on your computer and click Open b Remove all pathway and file type information from the chosen file The Datasource field should contain only the file name of the xdsrc file without the file extension In our example C PolycomContent Data PolycomFeed_PolycomFeed xdsrc becomes PolycomFeed_PolycomFeed in the Datasource field c Provide a title and category for the Template Click OK 11 Save the Playlist Distribute the Playlist to the target player or players and click Load on Player s 156 Polycom Inc Using a Data Source Using the Data Parser 12 The new Template should appear in the PDS Player output The Data Parser will update the Template as new material appears Polycom News P Polycom adds Mac support to video conferencing products MacNN Polycom has updated its CMA Desktop software adding Mac support amongst other new features CMA Desktop provides video conferencing tools for presenters and participating users allowing businesses to manage telepresence and multipoint video resources Polycom Inc 157 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Using a Data Source 158 Polycom Inc Non Standard Installations This chapter outlines potential changes to the standard Polycom Digital S
105. ervices provides the industry s best technical support staff and programs to let you concentrate on the task at hand Polycom users can select from a variety of support solutions to obtain the level of support that best meets their needs Before contacting your Polycom Global Services representative for technical assistance gather as much information as possible about your situation Any information you can provide helps us assess the problem and develop an appropriate solution Polycom Global Services Telephone If you have comments or questions about Polycom or if you need technical assistance contact e Polycom Global Services in U S A 888 248 4143 8 Polycom Inc About Polycom Digital Signage Polycom Digital Polycom Inc This chapter explains the Polycom Digital Signage architecture This chapter includes the following sections e Polycom Digital Signage Solution e Architecture Overview Signage Solution The Polycom Digital Signage solution is a combination of powerful applications including the following components Polycom Digital Signage Player The Polycom Digital Signage Player is a powerful broadcast rendering engine that delivers the highest quality output with the highest level of reliability Unlike simple video playback devices the Polycom Digital Signage Player dynamically arranges and composes signage elements objects or zones in real time to generate the final video output This means individual
106. es playlist duration _ Perform action on clip change Define Actions Fi Run script function on clip change Features available in the Video Properties dialog box are defined as follows 126 Clip List Lists video clip or clips associated with the media asset placeholder Template Maker lets you create video clip playback lists by adding more than one asset in the Clip List Once more than one asset has been added to the Clip List the order of the clips is modified by selecting an asset and pressing CTRL up to move an asset higher in the list or CTRL down to move an asset lower in the list Clip Preview window Shows a preview of the video selected in the Clip List Enable clip proxy When selected replaces the color bar placeholder image for the media asset with the current frame shon in the Clip Preview window Add Clip button Selects a video source file from disk To import a video directly onto a slide do the following a Select the Add Clip button The Select File dialog box appears b Toimporta video clip from the Content Library select the Content Library icon and browse to choose a video clip and click OK The selected video clip appears in the Clip List c Toimporta video clip from another location on your system select the All Files icon and browse to choose a video clip and click OK The selected video clip appears in the Clip List Add Folder button Selects a video source fo
107. espect to the software contained within its products The software is protected by United States copyright laws and international treaty provision Therefore you must treat the software like any other copyrighted material e g a book or sound recording Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this manual is accurate Polycom Inc is not responsible for printing or clerical errors Information in this document is subject to change without notice Contents Contents About this Guide ccc cece ccc cccccccseee 7 PURPOSE sirais aE A RAEE ioe dl hh ao ees Oe ee a eee 7 Documentations s noitia E hare eed Sha OER 7 ALUGICNCeY roires i hee ce ee as Be eee Gees oe en Bae 8 Customer SUPPOLt kesense eens ekionee ANARA dawns gaeEe eames 8 Polycom Global Services Telephone 0 006 e eee eee 8 Polycom Digital Signage Solution 6 c cece eee eens 1 Polycom Digital Signage Player 0000000 1 Polycom Digital Signage Server 6 c cece eee eee 1 Polycom Digital Signage Remote Manager 54 1 Polycom Digital Signage Web Controller 0005 2 Polycom Digital Signage Agent 0 000008 2 Architecture Overview scrcu sracciptes th heri reeni aota nEEREREE s 2 1 Configuring the PDS Player eceeeeeee 5 About the PDS Player ar csinniespoieii iei istia eieaa a 5 Accessing the Player icisat e s mares A EEE EE EE
108. g Categories list box browse to an available category and choose Add Selected iw Template Settings General Categories Parameters Adding categories to your templates make them easier to organize and search for in Content Manager Select from existing categories or create new ones below Categories Existing Categories Selected Categories Add Selected ss Remove Selected Add New Category Additional Files Save Current Slide Save All Slides 6 To assign the template to a new category in the Selected Categories area choose Add New Category 7 Inthe Add Category dialog box enter the name of a new category and choose OK 8 The new category name appears in the Selected Categories list To remove the template from a category select a category from the Selected Categories list and choose Remove Selected Polycom Inc 143 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Saving a Template 10 Inthe Template Parameters area to add a variable parameter to the object that can be modified when the template is added to a playlist in the Web Controller choose Add fw Template Settings General Categories Parameters allow you to customize the appearance and behavior of a template when you add it to a playlist in Content Manager For example you could create a parameter for a template s background video property allowing users to load it multiple times with different background videos without modifyi
109. gnage Player Version 2 5 Build 16 Default Layer Default Transition Background Z CrossFade 5 SS eS a CurrentOutput Active Schedule Default Last Template lib Lobby Trivia xtmpl Current Playlist Displays the directory path and name of the currently active playlist NOTE Previously loaded playlists can be quickly loaded by clicking on the Current G Playlist filename bar and choosing a playlist from the drop down list that appears Default Layer Default Layer Default Transition _ Foreground Polycom Inc 17 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide The PDS Player Interface Specifies the rendering layer in which a template loads Options available are Background and Foreground Default Transition Default Layer Default Transition Cut Fade a tar was PushRight PushLeft MB Curent Output Random Specifies the default transition effect to be used in between templates loaded in a playlist Transitions from which you can select include Cut Fade Crossfade Push Right Push Left and Random Events Last Event Next Event Time To Next Event 01 33 49 PM 01 38 19 PM 00 02 22 Last Event The time of the last event loaded or executed in the Player Next Event The time of the next planned event to occur in the Player Time to Next Event Countdown timer of the next planned event to occur in the Player Control Buttons Load Opens a dialog
110. gram Files Polycom PDS T emp lical Cache Folder C Program Files Polycom PDS Cache lea Template Folder C PolycomContent T emplates lsa Command Folder C Program Files Polycom PDS Commands Tac Playout Settings Player Mode Standard Interactive Window XPos 0 YPos 0 Width 1280 Height 720 URL Loader Window Pos 0 YPos 0 Renderer Settings The Renderer Settings options of Advanced Settings are described as follows e Renderer IP Address Displays the IP address of the rendering engine e Renderer Executable Filename Displays the executable filename that corresponds to the PDS rendering engine e Connection Delay Displays the delay in seconds from the time you click the Render button until the scene is submitted CG rendering engine File Locations The File Locations configuration in Advanced Settings allow users to dictate which directories the PDS Player uses Output folder Displays the folder to which the CG Renderer sends rendered output that is displayed in the output monitor e Cache folder Displays the folder to which the CG Renderer caches information while rendering the output e Template folder Displays the default folder to which the PDS Player saves exported templates e Command folder Displays the folder to which the commands are stored on the system for use with other PDS applications such as Remote Manager or Web Screens 110 Polycom Inc Template Maker
111. gt lt String2 gt jpg lt String2 gt lt ParsingRule gt With the image file s local name set in the Locallmage container we can now use GetImage to download the file lt ParsingRule type GetImage source result gt lt Ur1 gt ImageURL lt Ur1 gt lt LocalFilename gt LocalImage lt LocalFilename gt lt ParsingRule gt This rule downloads the file at the URL stored in the ImageURL container and saves it in the file named in the Locallmage container This completes the tutorial The final definition file is shown below lt DataSource gt lt General gt lt RefreshInterval gt 3600 lt RefreshiInterval gt lt Al lowDuplicates gt True lt Al lowDuplicates gt lt Url gt http ww srh noaa gov zipcity php inputstring 10005 lt Url gt lt Database gt DataFeeds mdb lt Database gt lt TableStructure Name Weather gt lt Field Type Text gt DayPart lt Field gt lt Field Type Text gt Condition lt Field gt lt Field Type Text gt Temp lt Field gt lt Field Type Memo gt ImageURL lt Field gt lt Field Type Memo gt LocalImage lt Field gt lt TableStructure gt lt General gt 189 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Data Source Tutorial 190 lt ParsingRule type TrimToEnd source Source result Source gt lt SearchText gt Forecast at a Glance lt SearchText gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule type GetTag source Source result Source gt lt StartTag gt am
112. gt element s src attribute First we extract the value of the src attribute with a GetTag rule lt ParsingRule type GetTag source DaySource result ImageURL gt lt StartTag gt img src amp quot lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp quot lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt Then we use a StrCat rule to prepend the web site s address to form the complete URL lt ParsingRule type StrCat result ImageURL gt lt Stringl gt http ww erh noaa gov lt String1 gt lt String2 gt ImageURL lt String2 gt lt AddSpace gt False lt AddSpace gt lt ParsingRule gt StrCat s String and String2 parameters are taggable so we use the special ImageURL syntax to specify the contents of the ImageURL container as the value for String2 These preceding two rules give us a full URL for the image e g http www erh noaa gov images wtf tsra70 jpg We can now download the image file First we obtain the image s file name with a GetTag rule that extracts strings that lie between a and jpg lt ParsingRule type GetTag source ImageURL result LocalImage gt lt StartTag gt lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt jpg lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt This extracts tsra70 from the ImageURL container This seems counter intuitive Why didn t the GetTag rule instead extract www erh noaa gov images wtf tsra70 i e everything between the first and jpg The answer lies in how GetTag handles nested tags GetTag a
113. he General area of the Ticker Properties dialog box enter a name to describe the ticker Polycom Inc Adding Clocks and Tickers Using Template Maker 7 Inthe Type drop down list select Clock Ticker Properties General Wig E Rendercuput on change Clock Settings Type _ Format Standard v h mm Prepend Text _ Append Text Target Object Offset H M S e l Precision 0 vi Fi Run script on change C Pertorm action on change Script Function v Define Actions 8 Enable the Render output on change field which automatically updates the ticker on the output when the object changes values 9 Inthe Clock Settings area of the Ticker Properties dialog box select a clock type from Type drop down list Available clock types are Standard Time Countdown Second Countdown 10 Choose a time display configuration from the Format drop down list 11 Enter text to precede the clock or to follow the clock by entering characters in the Prepend Text and Append Text fields 12 The clock can be offset by a time specified through adjusting the H Hour M Minute S Second parameters 13 Enter a decimal point precision for the clock by choosing an integer from the Precision parameter 14 Enable Stop at zero to stop the clock at the zero marker when clock type is set to Time Countdown 15 Enter a time value to countdown to in the Countdown To Time field e g 5 30 2007 10 00 00
114. he rest of the chapter Polycom Inc 67 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Web Controller Interface Guide Player Monitor Panel Players PDSPLATER PDSPLAYER1 PDSPLAYER3 The Player Monitor Panel of the Web Controller user interface displays screenshots of all connected Players on the given network of the Polycom Digital Signage Server Use the Zoom tool to change the level of resolution of the display ee To change monitor settings 1 Right click on the chosen PDS Player Click Full Screen Monitot 68 Polycom Inc Web Controller Interface Guide Using the Web Controller 2 The Full Screen Monitor pop up will appear PDSPLAYER3 5 38 PM 26 Feb 10 ne to Polycom Digital Welcome to Polycom Digital Signage 3 To change the Monitor view open the Screen drop down on the far left Choose whether to view the PDS Output Screen System Primary Screen or System Secondary Screen For more information about using multiple screens with the PDS Player please consult Configuring PDS Player Video Settings on page 6 4 To change the monitor s update frequency open the Update Interval drop down and select a new timeframe Events Panel The Events Panel provides feedback for PDS Web Controller users during the publication process The events detailed include content updates errors and Player status changes Changes made in the Web Controller may not take effect until the package has completed the downlo
115. hen selected configures the PDS Player display output to appear on a second monitor This mode can also be used for cloning the display This supports multiuple monitors from one Player See the Polycom Digital Signage Player Getting Started Guide for more details Full screen When selected the PDS Player output will be displayed in full screen mode either on the primary or secondary display When unselected the PDS Player output will be displayed ina separate window Output Window Zoom Select to resize the CG Rendering window to 100 full size or 50 half size when the Full screen mode is disabled Wait on VSync Depending on the features and the performance of your system s graphics card adapter select one of the following options True Significant loss of system performance with a high quality graphics output result Hybrid Improved system performance with some loss in the quality of the graphics output result False Best possible performance with a low quality graphics output result 109 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Template Maker Output Settings Advanced Settings fw Program Settings Category Settings Advanced Video Settings Advanced Renderer Settings Renderer IP Address 127 0 0 1 Connection Delay secs 0 Renderer Exe Filename VertigoCG2 exe w C Show clip filenames on output i o Skip playlist events if parameter assets missing File Locations Output Folder C Pro
116. huckle container lt ParsingRule Type ReplaceTag Source BigString Result Chuckle gt lt StartTag gt or lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt or lt EndTag gt lt NewText gt baseball lt NewText gt lt Index gt 2 lt Index gt lt ParsingRule gt Right The Right rule extracts a specified number of characters from the end of the Source container Parameters Length The number of characters to extract from the end of the Source container 197 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Parsing Rule Reference Guide 198 Example If the LongString container contains abcdefghijklmnopgqrstuvwxyz then the following rule will place vwxyz in the ShortStuff container lt ParsingRule Type Right Source LongString Result ShortStuff gt lt Length gt 5 lt Length gt lt ParsingRule gt RightTrim The RightTrim rule removes a specified number of characters from the end of the Source container Parameters Length The number of characters to remove from the end of the Source container Example If the LongString container contains abcdefghijklmnopgqrstuvwxyz then the following rule will place abcdefghijkImnopqrstu in the ShortStuff container lt ParsingRule Type RightTrim Source LongString Result ShortStuff gt lt Length gt 5 lt Length gt lt ParsingRule gt SetValue The SetValue rule places a literal string directly into the Result container The Source attribute is requi
117. ignage Server This chapter includes the following sections The PDS Server Configuration Utility e Downloading and Installing the Agent The PDS Server Configuration Utility The Polycom Digital Signage Server includes a Configuration Utility to facilitate changes from the default Server settings The Configuration Utility allows port database and setting changes NOTE Port and name changes made in the PDS Server will not be propagated to the Players You will need to update each of the Players either by installing a new Agent or by manually updating the server configuration After the setup processes detailed above the PDS Server Configuration Utility can be used e To launch the Configuration Utility open Start gt Programs gt Polycom Digital Signage gt PDS Server Configuration Utility The utility will appear Polycom Inc 159 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide 160 The PDS Server Configuration Utility From the Server tab administrators can designate a server address the ports used by the server the file transfer directory and whether it is functioning as a primary or secondary server Port configuration information is detailed in the following section IPDS Server Configuration Utility Ox Reload Gil Save Server Database Service Address PD s Use Machine Name Primary Port 5551 1 Secondary Port 5551 3 File Transfer Directory Ic Program Files Polycom PDS B
118. ignage Web Controller Users can easily update content using the Web Controller s point and click interface The content is automatically distributed to Polycom Digital Signage Players via the Polycom Digital Signage Server which acts as the central hub for the Polycom Digital Signage system The Polycom Digital Signage Player renders content in real time for display to a monitor with the Polycom Digital Signage Agent linking Players to the Server The Polycom Digital Signage Agent also monitors the status of the 2 Polycom Inc Architecture Overview Polycom Inc About Polycom Digital Signage Polycom Digital Signage Player and sends regular heartbeat and status messages to the Polycom Digital Signage Server The Agent can also take steps to heal the Player if it detects a problem Administrators monitor and manage the system using the Polycom Digital Signage Remote Manager application This software displays the status and details of all the Players connected to the system Administrators can also use the Polycom Digital Signage Remote Manager to distribute and manage content packages as well as issue commands to individual players or groups of players although content updates and distribution are typically handled via the Polycom Digital Signage Web Controller The Web Controller is used for day to day updates to content appearing on the monitors in a given Polycom Digital Signage network Polycom Digital Signage Admi
119. indow appears Compare file c deleteme playlist pane png DOR if Refresh _ Repeat Request All target players Ee g All target players 7 Player Network Status ae Responded 2 GB PDSPLAYER Qumu Modified on 19 11 09 at 08 27 56 size 177 P z WD Identical 2 GB PDSPLAYER1 Qumu Modified on 19 11 09 at 08 27 56 size 177 i D Waiting for response 5 Download Allows users to download files from a Player to the computer running Remote Manager Copy To Allows users to copy the file to another location on the PDS Player Rename Move To Allows users to rename or move the file Delete Deletes the file Polycom Inc 59 60 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Remote Player Management Console Execute Executes a specific file Please note that this function allows users to browse for files to run rather than using the Start Process item in the Remote Player Management Console Tool Bar Start Process File Name c Polycom Agent exe Arguments Working Directory c Polycom Use context of logged on user g Start On Load Directly loads PDS Playlists and Templates in the PDS Player Polycom Inc Using the Web Controller This chapter outlines the use of the Polycom Web Controller in content managment procedures It contains the following sections e About the PDS Web Controller e Installing the Web Controller e Opening
120. iner Example If the LongString container contains abcdefghijklmnopgqrstuvwxyz then the following rule will place abcde in the ShortStuff container lt ParsingRule Type Left Source LongString Result ShortStuff gt lt Length gt 5 lt Length gt lt ParsingRule gt LeftTrim The LeftTrim rule removes a specified number of characters from the beginning of the Source container Parameters e Length The number of characters to remove from the beginning of the Source container Example If the LongString container contains abcdefghijklmnopgqrstuvwxyz then the following rule will place fghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz in the ShortStuff container lt ParsingRule Type LeftTrim Source LongString Result ShortStuff gt lt Length gt 5 lt Length gt lt ParsingRule gt Polycom Inc Parsing Rule Reference Guide Polycom Inc Appendix B Data Parser Mid The Mid rule extracts a string of a specified length from a specified starting character in the Source container Parameters Length The number of characters to extract e Start The character position in the Source container from which to extract the characters Example If the LongString container contains abcdefghijklmnopgqrstuvwxyz then the following rule will place efghijklmn in the ShortStuff container lt ParsingRule Type Mid Source LongString Result ShortStuff gt lt Length gt 10 lt Length gt lt Start gt 5 lt Start
121. inition file contains a single XML lt DataSource gt element A lt DataSource gt element contains a single lt General gt header element followed by one or more lt ParsingRule gt and or lt Dataltem gt elements When Data Parser opens a definition file it first reads the lt General gt element Then it retrieves the data source s data and applies all top level lt ParsingRule gt elements in the order they appear in the definition file Finally it applies all the lt Dataltem gt elements also in order of their appearance Special Character Replacement Entity Code amp amp amp lt amp lt gt amp gt amp quot amp 39 Polycom Inc 171 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Data Source Definition File Overview 172 NOTE As data source definition files are XML code care must be taken when using certain characters in parameter values The characters in the table at the right must be replaced by their corresponding XML entity codes or Data Parser will fail to load the data source definition file For example the following is invalid lt StartTag gt Hello amp Goodbye lt StartTag gt Instead the special characters must be replaced lt StartTag gt amp quot Hello amp amp Goodbye amp quot lt StartTag gt Note that all XML entity codes start with an ampersand amp and end witha semicolon The General Element The lt General gt element defines
122. inute Trigger Heartbeat alarm when heartbeat is missing for 90 seconds ha ab Enable Self Healing allows the agent to take corrective action should a Player experience a problem playing out content Load last played playlist to have the PDS Player automatically load the previously running playlist any time it is started In Player Startup you can optionally enter the name of a playlist to be loaded by the Player when it starts up Check Enable Audio Monitoring to allow the audio output and levels to be sent to the Server by the Player If this is not checked no audio information or levels will be checked or sent and no audio alarms will be triggered even if the Player is playing out audio Use the Video Monitoring selection to choose the display output that should be monitored by the Agent this should be the display receiving the output from the Player usually the System Secondary Screen The settings under Alarm Conditions allow you to control how quickly the Player Agent will send a notification to the Server when encountering the following potential problems Missing video This alarm condition occurs when the agent is not able to get any video output from the Player to provide a screenshot This usually indicates a problem with the Player 53 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Remote Player Management Console Missing audio This alarm condition occurs when the agent is not able to obtain an
123. ion In PowerPoint choose Format Background In the Background dialog box select a color fill or texture to use as a background Polycom Inc Adding and Working with Slides Polycom Inc Using Template Maker 4 Position Position and size of background Options available are Default Custom Modifying Actions on a Slide Slide actions let you automatically perform certain scripted functions when a slide loads A series of actions can be created to form an action playlist General Background Crawl Actions gt gt False Enable Playlist Enables slide s action playlist Playlist The actions associated with a slide are defined as follows Enable Playlist If set to True enables a slide s action playlist e Edit Playlist button Opens the Playlist Editor letting you add modify and specify the duration of actions To add an action to a slide 1 Inthe Actions tab of the slide properties set Enable Playlist to True Select Edit Playlist The Playlist Editor dialog box appears To add an action click Add The Command Builder dialog box appears Aa O N From the list of Available Commands double click on a command If the command has customizable parameters the Command Parameters dialog box appears 5 Configure the parameters as desired and choose OK The Command appears in the Selected Command area To edit the selected command click Edit To adjust the start time of th
124. isplays the CG rendering engine control panel Enable auto screenshot When enabled takes screenshots of the content being displayed by the PDS Player These screenshots are then displayed in the Current Output Window section of the PDS Player Close renderer on exit When enabled closes the CG rendering engine when the PDS Player quits Prerender next slide in presentation When enabled stores the next event in system memory while the current event is displayed on the output Restrict cursor to primary display When enabled prevents the system mouse cursor from appearing on the secondary output of the the PDS Player Messages The Messages Settings panel is described as follows Polycom Inc Show Messages Box The Messages dialog in the PDS Player interface provides moment by moment details regarding functioning of the PDS Player The frequency of messages can be determined in the Show Messages Box Select one of the following options On Error Displays messages in the Messages dialog only when an error has occurred Always Displays all messages errors information status in the Messages dialog On Request Only Displays messages only upon request when you click the Show Messages button in the PDS Player Log All Messages Writes all PDS Player events to the log file Message Filter Box Select one of the following options Show Critical Messages Only Displays messages in the Messages dialog
125. k space used 53 GB 176 GB free Now Playing Slot 3 Display 1 Display 2 Playlist C XpresenterContent Playlists Xe_MasterPlaylist xplst Status Master Volume 0 Status Local Time 3 3 2010 2 05 26 PM Screenshot Local Ti 3 3 2010 2 05 22 PM Last Heartbeat Loc 3 3 2010 2 05 25 PM Updated at 02 05 38 The Remote Player Management Console window consists of four parts e the menu bar and tool bar which include the Tools menu and the buttons used for Player operations e the performance meter pane which includes LED style graphs to show the current levels for page file size CPU usage audio level and disk usage e the screenshots pane which includes a tab and display area to show the screenshots for each of the system s display outputs and e the status detail pane with tabs to show different detail elements of the systems status this pane is discussed in more detail below 50 Polycom Inc Remote Player Management Console Using the Remote Manager Tools Menu The Tools menu contains the following options File Browser File Browser Select this option to bring up a File Manager view browsing the Player s file system in a separate window The File Manager is described in detail below Close Select this option to close the Remote Player Management Console window Note that you can work in the main Polycom Digital Signage Remote Manager Window and in the Remote Play
126. l appear Click Install Setup PDS Web Control Ready to Install Setup is now ready to begin installing PDS Web Control on your computer Click Install to continue with the installation or click Back if you want to review or change any settings Destination location C Program Files Polycom PDS Web Control Start Menu folder Polycom Digital Signage Additional tasks Create desktop icons www polycom com Install Cancel 7 Double click on the PDS Web Controller desktop icon to begin PDS Web Control Opening the Web Controller 64 When you first open the Polycom Digital Signage Web Controller application you will be prompted to enter your login credentials Connect to Polycom Server Connection Settings Server Address TCP Port 55511 User Name Administrator Password Connect Cancel The default server name is PDSSERVER The default credentials for Content Managers are ContentAdmin Polycom123 Polycom Inc Opening the Web Controller Polycom Inc Using the Web Controller Please note that you should not need to edit the TCP Port when using the default PDS Server configuration Licensing the Web Controller The Web Controller must be licensed prior to use To license the Web Controller 1 Navigate to File gt License 2 The License dialog will appear In the dialog click the Request a License Key button Enter the PDS Serial Number The PDS Serial Number
127. l appear to move from off screen above the slide and travel downwards Fly from Top Fade the object will fade in while appearing to move from off screen above the slide and travel downwards Fly from Bottom the object will appear to move from off screen below the slide and travel upwards Fly from Bottom Fade the object will fade in while appearing to move from off screen below the slide and travel upwards Fade On the object will fade into view Scale X the object will appear compressed and will stretch out along the horizontal axis of the slide like an accordion Scale X Fade the object will fade into view while appearing compressed and will stretch out along the horizontal axis of the slide as it fades fully into view 141 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Saving a Template e Scale Y the object will appear compressed and will stretch out along the vertical axis of the slide as though it is growing up from the bottom of the slide e Scale Y Fade the object will fade into view appearing compressed and will stretch out along the vertical axis of the slide as though it is growing up from the bottom of the slide e Scale X Scale Y the object will appear to grow out of a single point in the distance and zoom into view e Scale X Scale Y Fade the object will gradually fade into view while appear to grow out of a single point in the distance Saving a Template Once a slide
128. laylist on startup Start playlist from First Event EA _ Execute previous schedule event on startup Minimize on startup Auto launch renderer on startup E Hide splash screen on startup OK Cancel Apply Startup Properties The Startup Properties settings of Startup Settings are described as follows e Default Background Template Specifies a template to load by default in the background layer of the CG output when the PDS Player first launches e Default Foreground Template Specifies a template to load by default in the foreground layer of the CG output when the PDS Player first launches Startup Image Filename Specifies an image to load in the CG output when PDS Player first launches Startup Script Filename Specifies a script to execute when the PDS Player first launches Startup Options The Startup Options settings of Startup Settings are described as follows Polycom Inc 9 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Options e Load previously loaded playlist on startup When enabled loads the previously loaded playlist when the PDS Player launches When disabled the PDS Player launches remaining in a ready state with no content displayed on the CG output playback of your content on air and recover from system anomalies or power TIP Enable Load previously loaded playlist on startup to automatically resume 4 failures e Minimize on startup When e
129. layout schedules for several different playlists or assign PDS commands to occur at specific times throughout the day Schedules can also include control events such as starting a crawling ticker on the output screen This allows users in the central location to schedule any kind of control event by assigning the appropriate event in the schedule To activate PDS Scheduler In the PDS Player choose Tools gt Schedule The PDS Scheduler window appears Tuesday cetera moann ieasr2o0 irao i IL I an 0 no A O nO n O i no N 0 1 00 aloja ALOIA OINA O N Co Non Oll Polycom Inc Scheduling Events with the PDS Player Using the PDS Player 2 If the Schedule is presented by Month rather than Day go to the View Mode box and select Day Interval mins 15 View Mode 3 In the Day view right click on the date and time at which to start playing the slideshow From the Scheduler menu that appears select Add Event The Add Schedule Event dialog appears Add Schedule Event Filename am Event Time Preroll Secs Event Date 05 00 PM xj 0 37972010 E Execute event when previous playlist ends event will be advanced or delayed based on playlist length E Recurring Event Recurrence Pattern Daily Every 1 day s Weekly Every weekday Monthly Range of Recurrence Start 37972010 No end date End after 1 occurenc
130. lder from disk Polycom Inc Adding and Editing Text Images and Media Using Template Maker Working with Flipbooks Polycom Inc Remove Clip s button Removes selected video clip s from the Clip List Loop When enabled loops the playback of all video clips listed in the Clip List Randomize list When enabled randomizes the playback of video clips list in the Clip List Log clip events When enabled creates a log file related to the playback of video clips in the Clip List By default logs are stored on the system Advance to next slide when clip list ends overrides playlist duration When enabled adjusts the overall duration of the template currently playing such that the total duration of all clips in the clip list has precedence Perform action on clip change When enabled execute action whenever the clip is dynamically updated Define Actions button Opens the Action Editor dialog box to create actions associated with dynamic images Run Script on clip change If set to True executes script function appearing in the adjacent drop down list A flipbook also known as a cel animation is a set of sequential images that create the illusion of movement when played out in rapid succession Supported file types are the same as for images Flipbook animation sequences may be keyed over a live video input or clip and are typically used to display animated company logos Inserting Flip
131. le com news htm1 lt Ur1 gt lt Database gt Example mdb lt Database gt lt Al lowDuplicates gt True lt Al lowDuplicates gt lt RefreshInterval gt 300 lt RefreshInterval gt lt TableStructure gt lt Field Type Text gt Head1line lt Field gt lt Field Type Text gt Reporter lt Field gt lt Field Type Text gt Date lt Field gt lt TableStructure gt lt General gt The ParsingRule Element The lt ParsingRule gt element is the backbone of the data source definition The purpose of this element is to extract text from a source optionally manipulate the extracted text in some way and place the result in a destination It helps to think of sources and destinations as containers of text A lt ParsingRule gt element can contain other lt ParsingRule gt elements Child lt ParsingRule gt elements are run after the parent rule The lt ParsingRule gt element has 3 required attributes e Type specifies the type of parsing rule to be used See the Data Source Definition Reference Guide for a complete list of parsing rule types 173 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Data Source Definition File Overview 174 e Result specifies the name of the container that should receive the output of the pasring rule Ultimately parsing rule results need to be placed into the data table fields defined in the lt TableStructure gt element and so the names of the data table fields are valid values for the Result attribute
132. licates gt lt Al lowDuplicates gt lt Url gt lt Url gt lt Database gt lt Database gt lt TableStructure Name SampleTable gt lt Field Type Text gt City lt Field gt lt TableStructure gt lt General gt lt DataItem NumRecords 5 gt lt ParsingRule Type SetValue Result City gt lt Value gt New York NY lt Value gt lt ParsingRule gt lt DataItem gt lt DataSource gt Here how to use a lt Dataltem gt element to parse the string x 1 y 2 z 3 Assume we want to extract each equation s variable x or y or z and value 1 or 2 or 3 lt DataItem gt lt ParsingRule Type GetTag Source Source Result Equation gt lt StartTag gt lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt Polycom Inc Data Source Tutorial Appendix B Data Parser lt ParsingRule Type TrimFromStart Source Equation Result Variable gt lt SearchText gt lt SearchText gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule Type TrimToEnd Source Equation Result Value gt lt SearchText gt lt SearchText gt lt ParsingRule gt lt DataItem gt A lt Dataltem gt element should contain one or more index aware parsing rules All of a Dataltem s parsing rules are applied on each iteration However if a given Dataltem parsing rule itself contains child rules those child rules are not passed any index information for the current iteration That is child rules are never tre
133. lip If set to True cues the next clip in the playlist in memory for use as a background when Background is set to Video Clip Clip Filename Opens the Select File dialog box in order to select a background video clip when Background is set to Video Clip Preview Shows a thumbnail preview of the video to be used as a slide background Click the image to show video playback controls in order to preview the video To import a video as a slide background 1 2 Choose Video Clip from the Background option In the Clip Filename area select the browse button The Select File dialog box appears To import a video clip from the Content Library select the Content Library icon and browse to choose a video clip and click OK The selected video clip appears in Clip Filename To import a video clip from another location on your system select the All Files icon and browse to choose a video clip and click OK The selected video clip appears in Clip Filename To receive a live video input signal as a slide background Choose Live video input from the Background option The video source driving the background video is defined in the section Capture Settings of Template Maker Program Settings A 3rd party capture device is required to receive live video input from an external video device To use the PowerPoint background settings as a slide background 1 2 3 Choose PowerPoint slide background from the Background opt
134. lish a playlist to the Player s using the Publish Content functionality found in the main application window Playlist This feature scans available playlists on the Player hard disk and conveniently lets you select one to load Command Choose one of the commands that appears in the drop down list to perform common tasks such as clearing the screens Please see Appendix A Player Commands on page 167 for a list of commands 54 Polycom Inc Remote Player Management Console Status Detail Panel Polycom Inc Using the Remote Manager The Status Detail panel of the Remote Player Management Console provides granular and up to the moment status information regarding the Player The Status Detail panel also provides remote process management for the Player appliance The Status Detail panel consists of four tabs Player Status Running Processes Windows Services and File Manager Player Status EE Player Status C Running Processes windows Services C File Manager Parameter Value General Player Name PDSPLAYER3 Self Healing On No In Operation sched Yes Status On Air Good Status changed 3 10 2010 1 21 50 PM Last action Performance CPU Load 9 Wave Audio owu Memory Page File Disk space used 60 GB 1 70 GB free Now Playing Slot 18 Playlist C Content Playlists M asterPlaylist xplst Status Master Volume 0 Status Local Time 3 10 2010 2 50 12 PM Screenshot Local Ti 3 10 2010 2
135. ll still be available while the task windows are open Tool Bar Connect Disconnect The Connect Disconnect button allows you to connect PDS Remote Manager to a PDS Server and to disconnect from the Server Clicking Connect brings up the following dialog Connect to Polycom Server Connection Settings Server Address TCP Port 55511 User Name Administrator Password Connect Cancel The default User Name Password credentials are Administrator Polycom123 Polycom Inc 31 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Tool Bar Auto Refresh Menu Refresh Publish Content 32 The Auto Refresh menu allows you to select the interval at which the status information in Remote Manager is refreshed This includes refreshing the screenshots as well as all other system information displayed in the different tabs in the Network pane NOTE Please remember that each refresh requires data including a screenshot image to be sent from the Player system to the PDS Server and then from the PDS Server to your PDS Remote Manager When managing a medium sized or large network of Players you can create a high level of network traffic and risk overloading your network simply by making your refresh interval too short Click Refresh to refresh the network information and screenshots manually This button is particularly useful when the Auto Refresh interval is set to Off The PDS Remote Manager includes a Publish Cont
136. lling the VertigoCG Renderer Getting Started When the PDS Player application is opened it will immediately begin displaying the default playlist Loading a Template 1 To load a PDS Template in the PDS Player choose File gt Load Template 2 Locate a PDS Template xtmpl on your computer and choose Open The template plays in the PDS Player output Polycom Inc 15 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Getting Started 3 If you have elected not to use full screen mode the content will be displayed on the CG Rendering Window To disable the CG Rendering Window open Tools gt VertigoCG and select Stop Alternatively press ALT Esc Render PowerPoint Slide Settings License Manager Further controls for the CG Renderer are detailed below Loading a Playlist To load a PDS Playlist in the PDS Player choose File gt Load Playlist Browse to a PDS Playlist xplst on your computer and choose Open The playlist plays in the CG Rendering window To playback a PowerPoint slide in the PDS Player with a PowerPoint presentation loaded select a slide and choose Tools gt Render PowerPoint Slide The slide plays in the CG Rendering window Polycom Inc The PDS Player Interface Using the PDS Player The PDS Player Interface The PDS Player is designed to facilitate the task of playing out either individual templates playlists or creating schedules of events Fil Polycom Digital Si
137. lways returns the innermost instance For example if the source string were Mary had a lt lt li lt lt tt gt gt le gt gt lamb and the StartTag were lt lt and the EndTag were gt gt then GetTag would return tt What this means in our case is that when GetTag notices that the StartTag still shows up in the string following its first occurrence GetTag will move forward through the string until the StartTag no longer appears Thus for http www erh noaa gov images wtf tsra70 jpg GetTag analyses the following strings http www erh noaa gov images wtf tsra70 jpg www erh noaa gov images wtf tsra70 jpg images wtf tsra70 jpg wtf tsra70 jpg Polycom Inc Data Source Tutorial Polycom Inc Appendix B Data Parser tsra70 jpg Only when GetTag reaches that last string does it assume its found the innermost StartTag and so then it returns whatever lies between the StartTag and the EndTag With the extensionless image file name in hand we can now construct a local path for the image file and restore the file s extension using a couple of StrCat rules Let s store the downloaded images in the C NOAAImages directory lt ParsingRule type StrCat sources lt Stringl gt C NOAAImages lt String1 gt lt String2 gt LocaliImage lt String2 gt result LocalImage gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule type StrCat source result LocalImage gt lt String1 gt LocaliImage lt String1
138. m Template Maker EOR O e es General Background Crawl Actio Slide Name Slide1 Render With Alpha True Smooth Slide False Check For Duplicate Names True Reset Renderer False Layer Default Transition Default Auto Clear Slide False Auto Clear Interval 10 Auto Stop Crawl True Style Sheet Class Slide Dimensions 12804720 Save Slide as Template Save Slide as Object Current Slide Area Displays the name of the current slide and shows a tree view of all elements contained within a given slide Selected Object Area Displays and permits modification of properties specific to the object selected in the PowerPoint slide or properties of the currently active slide Layer Selects which rendering layer is currently active and to which layer objects contained in the PowerPoint slide will be rendered Reveals the layer specified in the Layer drop down Hides the layer indicated in the Layer drop down Polycom Inc Navigating the Template Maker Interface Polycom Inc Style Browser Using Template Maker To launch the Style Browser navigate to Tools gt Style Browser Settings Objects Show Messages All Objects Slide Tags Object Tags Style Sheet Editor Export As Web Page Export As Silverlight Project Clear Cache Create PPT Archive Publish Template Add Template To Zip Archive License Manager e2_Aler
139. meters window will appear Template Parameters 2 The NumQuestions field allows users to define the number of questions displayed on this template from the source Excel spreadsheet The Title is the name that will be displayed on the template The DataFilename is the source Excel spreadsheet which will be called for this application The syntax of the file must be lib_Trivia xls 3 To customize the questions open the C XPresenterContent Data folder on your computer Double click on the lib_Trivia xls file 90 Polycom Inc Playlist Editor Using the Web Controller 4 This will launch Excel and open the spreadsheet QUESTION OPTION 1 OPTION 2 OPTION 3 OPTION 4 ANSWER What kind of nut is an ingredient found in dynamite Walnut Pecan Peanut Almond Peanut How many ways are there to make change for a dollar 200 150 270 293 293 What fish is able to blink its eyes Shark Sailfish Trout Tuna Shark Which animal has the largest eyes Giraffe Blue Whale Giant Squid Polar Bear Giant Squid How many ridges are around the edge of a dime 50 7 98 118 118 What is the average lifespan of a mayfly Day 1 Month 1 Week 2 Weeks 1 Day What was the original task of the US Secret Service Stop Counterfeiting Protect the President Spy Operations Protect the Postal Service Stop Counterfeiting What kind of acid is found in Coca Cola Hydrochloric Acid Citric Acid Sulfuric Acid Phosphoric Acid Phosphoric Acid What was Bug Bunny s original name Happy
140. n email address and login credentials 8 Click OK Download Agent Setup Select Download Agent Setup if you wish to download the Agent for a particular network Agent downloads should not be necessary in the default configuration of the PDS Server Please consult Non Standard Installations on page 159 Broadcast Message Broadcast Message Welcome to Polycom Administrators can broadcast a message to all Remote Manager users To directly communicate with one user see Manager List below 43 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Network Pane Network Pane The Network pane shows different properties of the Players that are in the network or group selected in the Networks amp Groups pane Network PDS Server Connections Player Status Screenshots System Info PDS Server network packages Player Name Computer Name Online IP Address Online Since Version Offline Bites EF PDSPLAYEF PD PD 1 01 Ds 1 0 Pi 3 0 f H A iD F PDS GD F PDSPLAYER1 PDSPLAYER1 yes 10 1 195 53 3 3 2010 3 52 26 AM C7SEBECB1769 2 5 4 9 Username Computer IP Address Network Online Time ID s Administrator RUSLAN T60 PDS Server 3 4 2010 2 06 42 AM 27452a 88 Administrator RUSLAN T6O PDS Server 3 4 2010 3 05 51 4M 59857 Manager List Username Computer IP Address Network Online Time ID Version 88 Administrator RUSLAN T6O PDS Server 3 4 2010 2 06 42 AM 27452a 2 5 4 12 8A Administrator Admin PDS Server 3 4 2010
141. n the VertigoCG settings do not apply across PDS Player sessions and will be lost if the PDS Player application is closed and reopened Polycom Inc 27 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Controlling the VertigoCG Renderer 28 Polycom Inc Using the Main Window Build 4 File View Advanced Help Connect Auto Refresh Off Polycom Control Command Networks amp Groups My Players Events Remote Manager This chapter explains the interface and use cases for the Polycom Digital Signage Remote Manager The installation of the Remote Manager is detailed in the Polycom Digital Signage Server Getting Started Guide This chapter contains the following sections e Main Window e Tool Bar e Network and Groups Pane Remote Player Management Console The PDS Remote Manager interface consists of the toolbars and four panes as shown in the image below Refresh Publish Content Publish Software Update i Playout Report Ed Send AP Not connected Connections Player Status Screenshots System Info Packages Time Network Event Player Name Computer Name Online IP Address 4 m Current Incidents E Show incidents on all networks Incident Dur Player lt Usemame Computer Offline Not Connected Offline Polycom Inc Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Main Window The toolbars
142. n the package Publish Content Package Name ContentUpdate Execute Actions Add Files Remove All Reset Target Paths Assets Detail File list 243234 PNG Wed 24 Feb 10 17 23 07 C Documents and Settings Desktop 13304710 pixels 74KB overlayscreen PNG Fri 19 Feb 10 13 31 44 C Documents and Settings Desktop 44x44 pixels 2KB Other content polycom qcp Thu 28 Jan 10 10 09 21 C Documents and Settings Desktop OKB 3 Assets 3 files Click Remove All to remove all of the assets from the package Select an asset and press the Delete key to remove only one asset from the package Click Reset Target Paths to reset the destination paths for all assets back to their default values To set individual destination paths use the Assets view The Assets view shows a small thumbnail image and size resolution information Right click on an asset to bring up a context menu Select Change Target Path to bring up the Set Remote Destination Path dialog box In the dialog box enter the destination directory for the selected asset You may then click Cancel click OK to apply the change only to the selected asset or click Apply to All Assets In This Package to apply the change to all the assets in the package The Detail File List view shows more details similar to the Details view in the Windows Explorer click a column heading to sort by that column Polycom Inc Tool Bar Using the Remote Manager Se
143. nabled hides the PDS Player interface from the system desktop e Auto launch renderer on startup When enabled automatically launches the CG rendering engine Options The PDS Player Options tab is divided into three sections General Messages and Audio Settings Settings defined in General let you specify options available to the PDS Player Settings defined in Messages let you specify options related to the Messages window Settings defined in Audio Settings let you specify options related audio output from the PDS Player M eogam setas lt a Category Settings Options Video Settings Startup Settings Options Advanced V Show renderer control panel V Enable auto screenshot 7 Close renderer on exit Prerender next slide in presentation ener Z Hide cursor on output full screen mode only Show Messages On Error x V Log all messages Message Filter Show Critical Messages Only v Setting V Adjust volume on slide load Use Default Volume From System Setting X Xpresenter Default Volume 100 X mran Cancel Apply 10 Polycom Inc Options Configuring the PDS Player General The General Settings panel allows administrators to dictate certain general configuration settings for the CG Rendering engine that is launched by default from the PDS Player The settings are described as follows Show renderer control panel When enabled d
144. nd phrases d Select Concatenate title and story text to merge Title data with the Story data stored in the Story field of the database To automatically place a character in between the concatenated title and story text enter a character in the Separator text area Click Next Polycom Inc Creating a Data Source Using the Data Parser 8 Verify the formatting and content of the incoming data feed by examining the text in the Data Preview panel Click Next r E7 RSS Wizard Data Preview ScanSource Communications Na GREENVILLE C ScanSc Avaya and Polycom jointly develo Avaya and Polycom a provide Polycom Delivers Desktop Video Polycom s Scalable CMA Desk Polycom Delivers Desktop Video PLEASANTON CA and HOUS Glowpoint President to Participate Discussion to Highlight Best A Glowpoint President to Participate HILLSIDE NJ Marketwire Over 40 of the Industry s Top Ve VoiceCon Orlando produce Avaya Polycom Partner on UC S Avaya and Polycom are expan Se ae The effects from Cisco s recer m r Cancel lt Previous i i Finish NOTE Not all RSS feeds can be parsed and displayed correctly Please confirm aD ONO fF WN that titles and stories appear and appear legibly in the Data Preview panel 9 The completion screen will appear Click Finish TEA RSS Wizard SSS SS M Finished You have successfully created a new ASS data feed parser
145. ndex gt lt ParsingRule gt lt DataItem gt However using child rules is preferred because it s easy to forget to include that Index parameter Let s return to the tutorial Now that we have the day part name but if you look carefully at what s between the lt b gt and lt b gt tags you ll see that the day part name always has a lt br gt string Sometimes it s just at the end of the string as in Friday lt br gt and other times it s in the middle as in Friday lt br gt Night Let s replace that lt br gt with a space lt ParsingRule type Replace source DayPart result DayPart gt lt SearchText gt amp 1t br amp gt lt SearchText gt lt NewText gt amp 1t space amp gt lt NewText gt lt ParsingRule gt Note the use of lt space gt with the lt and gt substituted by entity codes as the NewText parameter We have to use the lt space gt token because XML strips spaces from values If we had simple used a space character as in lt NewText gt lt NewText gt we would actually be removing the SearchText instead of replacing it with a space This would result in translating day part names like Friday lt br gt Night to FridayNight instead of Friday Night With the day part name safely in the DayPart field of the table let s extract the weather conditions For this we want part of the phrase that s used as the title attribute of the lt img gt element such as title Heavy Rain Chance for Mea
146. ng The following string codes are replaced with specific character sequences lt cr gt is replaced with a carriage return character ASCII code 13 lt lf gt is replaced with a line feed character ASCII code 10 lt crif gt is replaced with a carriage return ASCII code 13 followed by a line feed ASCII code 10 This is the equivalent of using lt cr gt lt lf gt lt tab gt is replaced with a tab character ASCII code 9 lt space gt is replaced with a space character ASCII code 32 e Container substitution If a string between characters is the name of an existing text container the contents of the container replace the string and its delimiters For example if a taggable parameter is This is SomeResult and there s a container named SomeResult that contains the text awesome then the parameter s value will be treated as This is awesome Here are some simple examples of lt ParsingRule gt elements The following parsing rule replaces all occurrences of Football in the original text of the data feed with Baseball and saves the result in a container named NewSport lt ParsingRule Type Replace Source Source Result NewSport gt Polycom Inc Data Source Definition File Overview Appendix B Data Parser lt SearchText gt Footbal1 lt SearchText gt lt NewText gt Basebal1 lt NewText gt lt ParsingRule gt The following parsing rule sets the value of the City container
147. ng Rule Reference Guide Parsing Rule Reference Guide 192 This section describes all the parsing rules you can use with Data Parser Getlmage The GetImage rule downloads a file not just image files from a URL to a local file The Source and Result attributes are required but ignored Parameters e Url taggable The URL for the file to download e LocalFilename taggable The path and name to save the file as Example The following rule downloads the file home_main_polycom jpg from www polycom com and saves it as C polycom_banner jpg lt ParsingRule Type GetImage Source Result gt lt Url gt http www polycom com images home_main_polycom jpg lt Ur1 gt lt LocalFilename gt C polycom_banner jpg lt LocalFilename gt lt ParsingRule gt Getlag The GetTag rule extracts text from between a pair of strings Parameters e StartTag taggable The starting delimiter of the text to extract e EndTag taggable The ending delimiter of the text to extract e Index optional Which occurrence of the text to extract Examples The following rule extracts whatever text lies between the first occurrence of here and there lt ParsingRule Type GetTag Source Source Result Replaced gt lt StartTag gt here lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt there lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt Polycom Inc Parsing Rule Reference Guide Polycom Inc Appendix B Data Parser The following rule
148. ng the original template Template Parameters Description Parameter Type Add Remove Copy Paste Edit Use Ctl up down arrows to change order Additional Files Save Curent Slide _ __ Save All Slides Publish To Player s 11 The Template Parameter Properties dialog box appears a Template Parameter Properties Name Parameterl Description Target Type Object Target Target Property Value Parameter Type Default Value Reset Default Value The options available in the Template Parameter Properties dialog box are described as follows Name Specifies the name of the variable parameter Description Specifies a description of the variable parameter Target Type Specifies whether the parameter is an Object Slide Variable or Data Ticker Target Depending on the Target Type specifies what is targeted 144 Polycom Inc Saving a Template 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Polycom Inc Using Template Maker Target Property Depending on the Target Type specifies what property of the parameter is targeted For example when Target Type is Object and Target is a text box Target Property fields available are Text Font Color When Target Type is Object and Target is an image Target Property field available is Filename Parameter Type Specifies the parameter type Available options are Text Image Video Audio Fil
149. nistrator Guide Architecture Overview 4 Polycom Inc Configuring the PDS Player This chapter explains the basic configuration processes for the Polycom Digital Signage Player This chapter includes the following sections e About the PDS Player e Accessing the Player e Configuring the Player Directly e Configuring PDS Player Video Settings Startup Settings e Options e Configuring PDS Player Advanced Settings About the PDS Player The PDS Player is a powerful real time broadcast rendering engine that delivers the highest quality output with the highest level of reliability It offers reliable playback for 24x7 operation Unlike simple video playback devices the PDS Player dynamically arranges slide elements in real time to generate the final video output This means individual elements of the content can be changed at any time without requiring that entire video segments be re rendered whenever a change is required Accessing the Player After installation the PDS Player can be configured directly or through Windows Remote Desktop Protocol RDP Polycom Inc 5 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Configuring the Player Directly Configuring the If using RDP to access a Player you will not be prompted to enter login credentials Please note however that to reboot a PDS Player using RDP you will need to enter ALT F4 This will launch a shut down dialog from which you must select Restart NO
150. nstantly preview the crawl on the screen Creating a Data Driven Crawl To modify the properties of a crawl do the following 1 Select a slide in PowerPoint In the Selected Object area select the Crawl tab Click the Set Crawl Properties button a Aa WO N The Crawl Settings dialog box will open Set the Crawl Action to Start with custom settings Polycom Inc Adding and Editing a Crawl Using Template Maker 6 Set the crawl Type to Data Driven Sw Crawl Settings 7 Data Driven v l Image or Flipbook Filename G al Layout Data Filename or Connection String C Program Files Connection string Browse Table Search Field vi v Fj Advance playlist at end of crawl Refresh Interval 600 V Loop crawl data LJ Copy From Slide Copy From Clipboard Copy To Clipboard Opacity 255 H Speed 180 Back Color Fore Color Direction Left Flipbook Image Width 0 Image Height 0 Cl Drop Shadow Shadow Offset 2 a Shadow Color o Font Arial 24pt In the Data Filename field click Browse to select an Access database or text file 8 Click Apply to instantly preview the crawl on the screen Crawl Properties Crawl properties apply equally for data driven and manual crawls The crawl properties associated with a slide are defined as follows Polycom Inc Type Specifies the type of crawling ticker Options avail
151. o True the slide will be checked for duplicate object names If objects have the same name Template Maker will automatically reassign an unused name to the object to avoid potential issues that may occur with scripts or actions Reset Renderer If set to True the CG renderer is reset cleared prior to the slide render Layer Layer that the slide is rendered on Transition Apply a transition to the current slide when navigating to another slide Transitions from which you can select include Cut Fade Crossfade Push Right and Push Left Polycom Inc Adding and Working with Slides Polycom Inc Using Template Maker Auto Clear Slide If set to True the slide will be cleared from the rendered output after a specified interval Auto Clear Interval The time in seconds after which a slide will be automatically cleared from the rendered output if Auto Clear Slide is set to True Auto Stop Crawl If set to True crawls will be cleared along with the slide during an Auto Clear Slide operation If set to False crawls remain on screen when the content of the slide is cleared from the rendered output Slide Dimensions Resolution in pixels of the slide s drawing canvas Set Slide Dimensions button Opens the Slide Dimensions dialog box in order to configure the slide s drawing canvas Modifying Background Slide Properties General Background Crawl Actions gt gt Backgroun
152. ols EPT PTN Eo ee ETT T Load Playlist Ce ee ee 71 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Control Panel 72 The Player Controls section allows immediate changes to be made to the Player Unlike text edits or playlist changes elsewhere in the Web Controller one click on each of these options will update Players targeted in the selection wizard Clear Screen resets the Player and clears the Player screen Next Event Advances to the next event in the playlist Previous Event Returns to the previous event in the playlist First Event Returns to the first event in the playlist Restart Shuts down the Player and restarts it This tool can be used to perform a full reset of the application Stop Shuts down the Player Disable Video Shuts down video card output bringing the Player into standby mode Please note that the Player will cease output when this is chosen Enable Video Resumes video card output on the Player Volume Change the Audio Volume 100 is the default 0 will mute the output Click Set Volume Load Playlist This option loads the playlist selected from the dropdown menu Click Refresh to restart the playlist Polycom Inc Control Panel Using the Web Controller Selection Wizard After selecting one of the above options the Player selection window will appear Select Target Players DoR a g PDS Server B 06 PDS Network O PDSPLAYER Om PDSPLAYER3 B 06 PDS Network 2
153. only when an error has occurred Show All Messages Displays messages only when you click the Show Messages button in the Settings dialog Messages displayed include content updates configuration changes output changes and updates to data driven templates as well as error messages displayed in red text Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Configuring PDS Player Advanced Settings Audio The Audio Settings of the Options window are described as follows e Adjust volume on slide load When enabled increases or decreases the audio output level based on the number configured in the Player Default Volume e Use Default Volume From Box Select one of the following options System Volume the PDS Player will output audio based on the volume of the system s mixer settings PDS Setting the PDS Player will output audio based on the default volume specified e PDS Default Volume Audio level from 0 100 to use for audio output Configuring PDS Player Advanced Settings The PDS Player Advanced Settings tab allows users to change system defaults These settings should not be changed without consulting Polycom Support The PDS Player Advanced tab is divided into three sections Renderer Settings File Locations and Playout Settings NOTE Please avoid modifying these values unless instructed to do so by Polycom support Polycom Inc Configuring PDS Player Advanced Settings Configuring the PDS Player
154. ontainer contains pizza then the following rule places eat pizza into the Food container lt ParsingRule Type StrCat Source Result Food gt lt Stringl gt eat lt Stringl gt lt String1 gt Snack lt String1 gt lt AddSpace gt true lt AddSpace gt lt ParsingRule gt Trim The Trim rule removes any leading and trailing spaces from the Source container Parameters None Example If the LotsOfSpace container contains hello then the following rule places hello without any leading or trailing spaces in the LeanAndMean container lt ParsingRule Type Trim Source LotsOfSpace Result LeanAndMean gt 199 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Parsing Rule Reference Guide 200 TrimFromEnd TrimFromStart TrimToEnd and TromToStart These four rules all remove some text from the source container They all take the same parameter SearchText The rules differ in whether they trim the beginning or end of a string and whether or not they include the SearchText value in the result Parameters e SearchText The first occurrence of this string will form the basis of the trimming Examples Suppose the Source container contains Mary had a little lamb The following rule places little lamb note the leading space in the MaryStuff container lt ParsingRule Type TrimToEnd Source Source Result MaryStuff gt lt SearchText gt had a lt SearchText gt lt ParsingRule gt The following
155. oups Pane Select Manage Users from the context menu 2 The Manage Accounts window will appear Manage Accounts Username Email Password GB PDS Network 1003 SeadSd1 452 Add Account 3 To delete an account right click on the username and select Delete Account 4 Click Add Account to create a new account or double click on an existing account to edit the properties although they can be viewed A new Agent can be created if you wish to change the Agent properties NOTE The properties of the default Agent for each network cannot be changed 5 The Create New Account window will appear Create Network Account Server Role Player Agent Network Administrator Content Manager Account User Name Email Password Password 6 Choose whether the account will be a Player Agent Network Administrator or a Content Manager Confirm Password The Player Agent is the link between Players and the Server It enables network status and health monitoring A2 Polycom Inc Network and Groups Pane Polycom Inc Using the Remote Manager The Network Administrator oversees all configuration on a given network via the Remote Manager as well as all content oversight abilities The Content Manager has content update privileges on a given network via the Web Controller the Content Manager can log into but make no changes in the Remote Manager 7 Provide a
156. p in Player local time of the last status information sent to PDS Server Timestamp in Player local time of the last Player heartbeat seen by the agent 46 Polycom Inc Network Pane Screenshots Polycom Inc Using the Remote Manager Time stamp in Player local time of the last screenshot sent to PDS Server The full Windows file path of the currently running playlist Please note that Players that are currently offline will be shown as dimmed i e the text of their table row will be a light gray color and you will not be able to perform most operations on them You can sort the table entries by clicking any of the column headings PDS Remote Manager will initially sort the table by Player name To bring up the Remote Player Management Console double click the Player s row in the table The Screenshots tab displays still images of each Player s output as rendered by the graphics card on the system The screenshots are updated at a regular interval based on the Auto Refresh setting in the toolbar so watching the images in the screenshots provides a quick and effective way to check the output from the Players in the network Connections Player Status Screenshots System Info PDS Server network packages PDSPLATER PDSPLAYER1 ee PDSPLAYER PDS a a Each screenshot is captioned with the name of the Player and network shown immediately above the screensho
157. p lt table lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp 1t table amp gt lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRuletype ReplaceCharacterCodes source Source result Source gt lt DataItem NumRecords 9 ClearTableOnStart True gt lt ParsingRule type GetTag Source Source result DaySource gt lt StartTag gt amp lt td lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp 1t td amp gt lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule type GetTag source DaySource result DayPart gt lt StartTag gt amp lt b amp gt lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp 1t b amp gt lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule type Replace source DayPart result DayPart gt lt SearchText gt amp 1t br amp gt lt SearchText gt lt NewText gt amp 1t space amp gt lt NewText gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule type GetTag source DaySource result Condition gt lt StartTag gt title amp quot lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp quot lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRuletype TrimFromStart source Condition result Condition gt lt SearchText gt Chance for lt SearchText gt lt ParsingRule gt lt ParsingRule type Trim source Condition result Condition gt lt ParsingRule type GetTag source DaySource result Temp gt lt StartTag gt amp lt br amp gt lt StartTag gt Polycom Inc Data Source Tutorial Polycom Inc Appendix B Data Parser lt EndTag gt amp
158. pplication Cryptographic Services Offline Files DCOM Server Process Launcher DFS Replication DHCP Client DNS Client Wired AutoContig Diagnostic Policy Service Extensible Authentication Protocol ReadyBoost Windows Event Log COM Event System Fax Function Discovery Provider Host Function Discovery Resource Pu Windows Presentation Foundatio Group Policy Client Human Interface Device Access Status Running Running Running Running Running Running Running Running Running Running Running Running Running Running Running Running Running Running Running Running gt ll The Windows Services tab displays the Windows services on the selected PDS Player As with the Running Processes tab users can remotely start and stop these services when necessary e To stop a running Windows service right click on the service and click Stop tart iri Stop e To start a Windows service right click on the service and click Start Start Polycom Inc 57 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Remote Player Management Console File Manager WD Player Status C Running Processes Windows Services File Manager Current directory C Polycom v 2 a a6 C A Name Size Date Mi L Recycle Bin GAHN O Boot G Config Msi C deleteme DELL L Documents and Settings L Drivers Intel CO MSOCache gt PerfLogs Program Files C ProgramDa
159. provide the buttons used for a number of high level operations within PDS Remote Manager Most other operations are available through dialog boxes that will be displayed e g on a Player name or thumbnail image Networks and Groups Pane Events Pane 30 The Networks amp Groups pane shows a tree view of the hierarchy of networks and groups you can manage that are running on the PDS Server Each network contains one or more groups which may in turn have sub groups The Network pane shows the Players defined within the network or group that is currently selected in the Networks amp Groups pane All the Players that are defined in the network or group will be shown whether they are currently online or offline The Network pane has five tabs allowing you to manage different aspects of these Players operations e The Connections tab shows you the Players that are currently connected to the PDS Server online as well as those offline Players that have been connected recently The Player list is tabular and you can select the sorting order for the list by clicking a field heading Inthe lower portion of the pane the Connections tab will show you the list of users currently connected to the PDS Server e The Player Status tab relates information on Player connectivity e The Screenshots tab shows thumbnail views of the screenshots from the Players in the selected network or group These thumbnails are refreshed regularly an
160. provided by your sales representative in your fulfillment email is unique per customer and comprehensive across the Polycom Digital Signage solution Do not discard this number 3 Click Request License Key to request the license key which will automatically populate the license key field in the initial dialog 4 Click OK 65 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Web Controller Interface Guide Web Control Page Control Panel Web Controller Interface Guide After login and licensing the Web Controller landing page appears Player Controls Load Playlist Announcement Crawl Text it ER Emergency Crawl Text See er JEX Players PDSLAYERS PDSPLAYER1 PDSPLAYERCZNEW Events Online 66 Time Player Network E 10 48 34 PDSPLAY Qumu Ol WE 10 48 17 PDSPLAY Qumu ne 10 47 20 PDSPLAY Qumu Pr WE 10 47 04 PDSPLAY Qumu Di 10 47 04 PDSPLAY Qumu Dr E 10 24 23 PDSPLAY Qumu 0 YE 10 2346 PDSLAYERS Qumu D 310 2346 PDSLAYERS Qumu D E 10 2317 PDSLAYERS Qumu Ds 310 2316 PDSLAYERS Qumu Di lt gt Polycom Inc Web Controller Interface Guide Using the Web Controller Main Panel Control Panel Player Controls Clear Screen Announcement Crawl Text Se eS Emergency Crawl Text See All content management and Player configuration tools reside in the Main Panel of the Web Control Each tab is documented individually throughout t
161. r Animation Type Select from a list of predefined animation effects See About Template Maker Animations for a description of each animation Preview button Previews the selected animation effect in the CG Renderer Offset box Specifies the offset or delay at which at which to execute the animation Use this value in conjunction with other objects to interplay animation effects among objects so that one object s animation occurs at a different time than another object s animation Duration field Specifies the length of time in seconds that the animation effect takes to perform Auto play on slide load When enabled starts the animation effect automatically as you move to the next slide in the presentation This option is only available for In animations Types of Animations The animations that can be applied via Template Maker include Fly from Left the object will appear to move from off screen on the left side of the slide and travel to the right Fly from Left Fade the object will fade in while appearing to move from off screen on the left side of the slide and travel to the right Fly from Right the object will appear to move from off screen on the right side of the screen and travel to the left Fly from Right Fade the object will fade in while appearing to move from off screen on the right side of the slide and travel to the left Fly from Top the object wil
162. r 80 Default Playlist The PDS Player and PDS Web Controller ship with a preconfigured default playlist Available Playlists Available Templates m Description 2 neranmentvews ooozoo o parame Remove Loss a lwcaners0 ooooss o Parame 1 Remove toaa Fe fereannonews ooozoo o parame Remove coas e aeosa fomeso o parame i remove toaa folsom fooeso o parame Remove toaa 12 Proauet caraio Powerom 001030 o Parame Remove Loss The following templates constitute the default playlist e Lower Crawl the crawl that plays throughout the playlist Can be edited in the Crawling Ticker tab in the Web Controller To remove the crawl from the PDS Player output delete this template from the playlist e Entertainment News a default data feed that displays entertainment news from a pre defined feed This feed updates regularly and populates the template with headlines stories usually one or two sentences and images if possible e Trivia a template that displays trivia questions and answers generated by a data file e Weather 3Day displays local weather for the next three days e Event Calendar PowerPoint Displays a user designated PowerPoint This PowerPoint can be retrieved edited replaced and distributed as ppt or as a jpg archive via the Slide Show Tickers tab in the Web Controller e Video 4x3 Displays a user designated standard ratio video This
163. r me 1600x1200 1920x1080 Consequently the following values apply at time of writing StandardOutputDims 0 640x480 resolution Polycom Inc 203 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Changing Output Settings with the XPT ini Configuration File StandardOutputDims 1 720x480 resolution StandardOutputDims 2 720x486 resolution StandardOutputDims 3 720x576 resolution StandardOutputDims 4 800x600 resolution StandardOutputDims 5 1024x768 resolution StandardOutputDims 6 1280x720 resolution StandardOutputDims 7 1280x1024 resolution StandardOutputDims 8 1600x1200 resolution StandardOutputDims 9 1920x1080 resolution 6 To set your Player output to Full Screen Mode a Scroll to Settings b Ensure that Ful1Screen True 7 To change your Player output orientation a Scroll to Output Settings b For the default horizontal i e 1024x768 output set OutputMode Landscape c For vertical i e 768x1024 output set OutputMode Portrait 8 To enable Dual Monitor Mode a Scroll to Settings b Set DualMonitor True c To disable Dual Monitor Mode set DualMonitor False 9 To enable Full Screen Mode a Scroll to Settings b Set FullScreen True c To disable Full Screen Mode set Ful lScreen False 10 To automatically resize the output for the monitor a Scroll to Output Settings b Set AutoResizeOutput True c To disable set AutoResizeOutput False
164. r the Forecast at a Glance text using a GetTag rule lt ParsingRule type GetTag source Source result Source gt lt StartTag gt amp 1t table lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp 1t table amp gt lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt Note how the lt and gt characters in the StartTag and EndTag parameters are replaced with XML character entity codes amp lt and amp gt The above two rules replace the full HTML code in the Source container with the following width 100 border 0 align center cellpadding 0 cellspacing 0 gt lt tr valign top align center gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Today lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf tsra70 jpg width 55 height 58 alt Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 70 title Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 70 gt lt br gt Heavy lt br gt Rain lt br gt Hi lt font color FF0000 gt 81 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td Polycom Inc Data Source Tutorial Polycom Inc Appendix B Data Parser width 11 gt lt b gt Tonight lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf ntsra80 jpg width 55 height 58 alt Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 80 title Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 80 gt lt br gt Heavy lt br gt Rain lt br gt Lo lt font color 0033CC gt 69 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Friday lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt img
165. red but ignored Parameters e Value taggable The value to return Examples The following rule places twinkle into the Eye container lt ParsingRule Type SetValue Source _Result Eye gt lt Value gt twink e lt Value gt lt ParsingRule gt If the Tear container contains drop then the following rule places drop in the Eye container lt ParsingRule Type SetValue Source lt Value gt Tear lt Value gt lt ParsingRule gt Result Eye gt Polycom Inc Parsing Rule Reference Guide Polycom Inc Appendix B Data Parser StrCat The StrCat rule concatenates two strings optionally adding a space between them The Source attribute is required but ignored Parameters String1 taggable The string that will be the start of the result String2 taggable The string that will be the end of the result e AddSpace optional If set to TRUE a space is inserted between the String and String2 Examples The following rule places eatcake into the Food container lt ParsingRule Type StrCat Source Result Food gt lt Stringl gt eat lt Stringl gt lt Stringl gt cake lt String1 gt lt ParsingRule gt The following rule places eat cake into the Food container lt ParsingRule Type StrCat Source Result Food gt lt Stringl gt eat lt String1 gt lt Stringl gt cake lt String1 gt lt AddSpace gt true lt AddSpace gt lt ParsingRule gt If the Snack c
166. ript module containing the script function Script Function Name of VBScript function to execute when Run Script on Change is set to True Run Action on Change If set to True execute action whenever the clip is dynamically updated e Video In Capture Source Index Select the index of the video audio capture device from the drop down menu Audio Volume Select a volume from 1 100 e Video Stream URL Specify the source URL Audio Volume Select a volume from 1 100 e Web Page URL Specify the source URL e Clone Source Object Select the video clip to clone from the drop down menu Audio Volume Select a volume from 1 100 The Video Properties Dialog To access the video properties of a media clip do the following 1 Select a media clip placeholder on a slide in PowerPoint 2 In Template Maker select the Video Properties tab 3 Set the Media Source of the media clip to Clip 4 From the Video Properties tab choose Set Video Clip Properties Polycom Inc 125 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Adding and Editing Text Images and Media The Video Properties dialog box appears GW Video Properties Clip Preview File Name Enable clip proxy Add Clip Add Folder Remove Clip s Set Slide Interval to Clip List Duration M Loop _ Randomize list _ Log clip events C Advance to next slide when clip list ends overrid
167. rowse Server Type PRIMARY Me From the Database tab adminstrators can view database address and if necessary database authentication credentials IPDS Server Configuration Utility Reload Gil Save Address SQLEXPRESS Browse J SOL Server Authentication User name Password Test Connection Create Database Update Database NOTE Do not alter the default settings in the Database tab unless instructed to do so by Polycom support Polycom Inc The PDS Server Configuration Utility Polycom Inc Non Standard Installations From the Service tab users can start stop and monitor the status of the PDS Server service PDS Server Configuration Utility Reload il Save Server Database E Name PDs Server Status Running Refresh Stop Renaming the Server The PDS Server Configuration Utility allows you to rename the PDS Server To rename the PDS Server 1 2 aoa Bb Q Open the PDS Server Configuration Utility Open the Server tab Indicate a new name or IP address for your PDS Server a Click Use Machine Name to use the name of the PDS Server appliance for the Server name Click Save in the PDS Server Configuration Utility toolbar In the Service tab click Stop to stop the Polycom Digital Signage Server Start the service Make all necessary subsequent changes via the Remote Manager and Player agents Port Configuration The TCP ports us
168. stem Properties control panel Time zone as configured in the Windows Date and Time control panel Player name PDS Server version number Days remaining in the PDS Player license for temporary licenses PDS Player Product ID for licensing Data Parser version if PDS Data Parser is installed Days remaining in the Data Parser license Heartbeat Server version number Package Handler version number Operating system version see note below Operating system uptime i e time since the last system reboot format of this version number does not correspond exactly to the marketing names for Window versions For example Windows Vista is reported in the table as Microsoft Windows NT 6 0 6001 Service Pack 1 NOTE The Windows version number is shown as reported by Windows and the 48 Polycom Inc Network Pane Using the Remote Manager Players that are currently offline will be shown as dimmed i e the text of their table row will be a light gray color and you will not be able to perform most operations on them Youcan sort the table entries by clicking any of the column headings The PDS Remote Manager will initially sort the table by Player name Network Packages Network packages can be observed from the Network Packages tab To send network packages open the Web Controller or use the Publish Content tool in the Remote Manager Connections Player Stat
169. sting file Administrators can also replace the logo that runs in the ticker configured in the Crawling Ticker tab When all customization changes have been made click Apply Customization Settings 101 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Settings 102 Polycom Inc Using Template Maker This chapter explains the interface and use of the Polycom Template Maker This chapter contains the following sections e About Polycom Template Maker e Installing Template Maker e Licensing Template Maker e Navigating the Template Maker Interface e Template Maker Output Settings e Adding and Working with Slides e Adding and Editing Text Images and Media e Adding and Editing a Crawl e Adding Clocks and Tickers e Saving a Template About Polycom Template Maker Polycom Template Maker allows users to work directly with Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 to develop templates for use in Polycom Digital Signage playlists Template Maker can be used to create organization department or event specific templates with objects such as live video video files animations tickers and data feeds Installing Template Maker 1 Find the Polycom Digital Signage Template Maker installer in the C software directory on the Polycom Digital Signage Server 2 Distribute this file to your computer Polycom Inc 103 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Licensing Template Maker Double click on the PDS Template Maker setup exe file
170. strings more quickly e Sort results Sorts the contents and output order of the table based on the field specified by Sort Field Polycom Inc 137 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Adding Clocks and Tickers 138 Sort Field box Select a field in which to sort the contents of the table when Sort results is enabled The SQL options are described as follows SQL String field Specify an SQL query to extract data from the database file For details on creating SQL queries see www microsoft com View Data button Lets you see the data retrieved from the entered SQL query Refresh Field List Refreshes the display of available fields The Specify Row Col options are described as follows Table Worksheet box Select the worksheet from which to select data Click View to view the data in the selected worksheet Row and Column boxes Specifies the spreadsheet column and row location of the cell for which you want to display data for the selected worksheet Click Select the view the spreadsheet details and select the cell To target the text box created above with the clock object select the text box named CityText in the Target Object drop down list Repeat step 11 for all database fields you with to assign to other target objects Click OK to close the Ticker Properties dialog box The name of the ticker created appears in the TickerList To add another ticker in the Clocks and Tickers tab
171. surable Precipitation 70 We only want the Heavy Rain part so we want to drop the Chance for text Polycom Inc Data Source Tutorial Polycom Inc Appendix B Data Parser First we need to extract the value of the title attribute using another GetTag rule which again is inserted as a child of the first rule that extracts the text between title including the opening quote character and the closing quote character lt ParsingRule type GetTag source DaySource result Condition gt lt StartTag gt title amp quot lt StartTag gt lt EndTag gt amp quot lt EndTag gt lt ParsingRule gt Then we remove the Chance for string and any text that follows it using the TrimFromStart rule lt ParsingRule type TrimFromStart source Condition result Condition gt lt SearchText gt Chance for lt SearchText gt lt ParsingRule gt This leaves us with the desired text but with a trailing space character e g Heavy Rain We remove this extra space with a Trim rule lt ParsingRule type Trim source Condition result Condition gt Why didn t we just use a lt space gt token in the SearchText parameter of the TrimFromStart rule e g lt SearchText gt amp lt space amp gt Chance for lt SearchText gt Because TrimFromStart s SearchText parameter does not support the special tag syntax so it doesn t interpret the lt space gt token as a space character Now let s turn to the temp
172. t Polycom Inc 153 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide 154 Using a Data Source 4 Add the xdsrc file to the Content Update Right click on the file and select Change Target Path Enter the target path C PolycomContent Data 5 Click Next Designate the Content Update Properties and all Target Players that will need to display the content and click OK 6 The Events area of the Remote Manager should show that the Content Update has been downloaded and processed Events Time Player 10 16 12 PDSPLAY w 10 16 08 PDSPLAY 10 16 08 PDSPLAY Event Processed ContentUpdate 201 Downloaded ContentUpdate 2 Downloading ContentUpdate 2 7 Open the Web Controller Polycom Inc Using a Data Source Using the Data Parser 8 Navigate to the Playlist Editor tab Playlist Editor DefaultPlaylist xpist Available Playlists ffsoe Lon rows ree i eater anar rae o ree ene 3 feProstcanssrowran oono 0 Paso 11 Ramae Ld Ee a Se oe 9 To edit an existing template click Params next to that template Please note that only the Entertainment News Breaking News and Sports Headlines default templates are appropriate for RSS feeds imported To create a new template choose the Data Ticker Fullscreen template from the Available Templates drop down and click Add Template Polycom Inc 155 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Using a Data Source 10 The Template Paramet
173. t lt a gt lt td gt lt tr gt lt table gt lt table cellspacing 0 cellpadding 0 border 0 background images wtf navbkgrnd gif width 670 gt lt tr gt lt td gt lt img src images wtf navbar left jpg alt width 94 height 23 border 0 gt lt td gt lt td align left class sSearchinput gt lt form method POST action http forecast weather gov zipcity php style display inline gt lt span class yellow gt Enter Your amp quot City ST amp quot or zip code lt span gt lt span class Searchinput gt lt input type text name inputstring size 15 value gt lt span gt amp nbsp amp nbsp lt INPUT TYPE submit NAME Go2 VALUE Go gt lt form gt lt td gt lt tr gt lt table gt lt table width 670 border 0 align left gt lt tr gt lt td gt lt table width 100 border 0 align center cellpadding 0 cellspacing 0 gt lt tr gt lt td align left valign center gt lt a href http www erh noaa gov okx gt NwS New York City Upton NY lt a gt lt br gt lt b gt amp nbsp Point Forecast lt b gt New York NY lt br gt amp nbsp 40 74N 74 01W lt td gt lt td align right valign bottom gt lt a href MapClick php Ci tyName New York amp state NY amp s i te OKX amp tex tField1 40 7198 amp textField2 73 993 amp 1g sp gt lt b gt En Espa amp nti 1de 01 lt b gt lt a gt lt br gt lt a href http www weather gov glossary index php word Last u 179 Polycom Digi
174. t Remote Destination Path Asset File Name closedcaption PNG Source Directory C Documents and Settings Desktop Target Directory C Polycom Polycom Digital Signage Apply To All Assets In This Package Remove Old Content If there is old content to be removed from the Players receiving the package you can specify the file names for the old content in the Remove Old Content tab Click Add Files to add files to the removal list and bring up the deletion dialog Enter Name of File or Directory to Delete File or Folder Name c Wideos FileN ameT oDelete Browse Local Files Browse Local Folders Execute Actions After you have selected your assets and made any required changes to the destination paths click Next to bring up the Package Properties dialog Package Properties Package Processing Schedule C Extract run package only between 10 00 00 PM and 6 00 00AM C On specific date 3 11 2010 Advanced Options C Use Delayed Distribution Start distribution at Server Time 10 Mar 2010 17 03 PM C Copy package to local sibling players requires folder sharing Polycom Inc 35 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Tool Bar Publish Software Update Polycom Digital Signage Remote Manager can be used to publish routine software maintenance updates to the network of Players To publish a software update 1 Click Publish Software Update 2 The Open Ex
175. t True False gt FIRSTEVENT lt Playlist number optional default 1 gt GOTOEVENT lt Event index gt lt Playlist number optional default 1 gt GOTOFIRSTEVENT lt Playlist number optional default 1 gt LOADPLAYLIST lt Playlist filename gt lt Auto start Optional default True gt lt StartIndex optional default 1 gt lt Playlist number optional default 1 gt LOADSCHEDULE lt Schedule filename gt MINIMIZE NEXTEVENT lt Playlist number optional default 1 gt PREVIOUSEVENT lt Playlist number optional default 1 gt RELOADEVENT lt Playlist number optional default 1 gt RESETCURRENTEVENTTIME lt Playlist number optional default 1 gt RESTART SHUTDOWN 169 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Player Specific Commands SETLICENSEKEY lt License Key gt STARTPLAYLIST lt Playlist number optional default 1 gt STOPPLAYLIST lt Playlist number optional default 1 gt 170 Polycom Inc Appendix B Data Parser This appendix contains a tutorial examples and a reference guide for creating custom data source definition files Creating a data source definition is an advanced topic that requires in depth knowledge of pattern matching Internet protocols and formats such as HTTP HTML and particularly XML This appendix includes the following sections e Data Source Definition File Overview e Data Source Tutorial e Parsing Rule Reference Guide Data Source Definition File Overview A data source def
176. t br gt Clear lt br gt Lo lt font color 0033CC gt 69 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Sunday lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf few jpg width 55 height 58 alt Mostly Sunny title Mostly Sunny gt lt br gt Mostly lt br gt Sunny lt br gt Hi lt font color FF0000 gt 92 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Sunday lt br gt Night lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf nsct jpg width 55 height 58 alt Partly Cloudy title Partly Cloudy gt lt br gt Partly lt br gt Cloudy lt br gt Lo lt font color 0033CC gt 75 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Monday lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf sct jpg width 55 height 58 alt Partly Cloudy title Partly Cloudy gt lt br gt Partly lt br gt Cloudy lt br gt Hi lt font color FFO000 gt 91 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt tr gt lt table gt lt table width 100 border 0 align center cellpadding 0 cellspacing 0 gt lt tr valign top gt lt td valign top align left width 50 gt lt br gt lt img alt Detailed text forecast src images wtf fcst jpg gt lt br gt lt a name contents gt lt a gt Hazardous weather condition s lt br gt lt div align center gt lt br gt lt a href shows7 gwx php warnzone NYZ072 amp warncounty NYCO61 amp Fi rew xzone NYZ072 amp 1ocal_placel New York amp product1l Hazardous
177. t click on the Agent red cross on red field icon in the Windows Taskbar on the Player Appliance fF Gh 9 28 AM 2 Select Status from the context menu that appears The Polycom Player Status window will launch 3 Click Agent Select Connection Settings from the menu that appears Monitoring Settings Connection Settings Secondary Server Connection Settings Restart Polycom Player Restart Heartbeat Service Reboot Computer Close CPU Load 23 Wave Audio ovu Memory Page F 1142 MB 26 Disk space used 60 GB 169 GB free Now Playing Event Playlist Status Master Volume o Status Local Time 3 22 2010 11 21 30 AM Screenshot Loc 3 22 2010 11 21 28 AM a r On Air Good 164 Polycom Inc Downloading and Installing the Agent Non Standard Installations 4 Inthe Connection Settings tab enter your new Server Name and or Server Port Click Test Connection to confirm that the changes have been made correctly Click OK to complete r PDS Sener Commeton Peder Connection Settings Altemate Configuration Configuration Server Name or IP address PDS Server Port 5551 1 Login Name PDS Network 2A 100317020426 Password Coccccpocccccccccccecccoecs Polycom Inc 165 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Downloading and Installing the Agent 166 Polycom Inc Appendix A Player Commands This appendix contains a list of the commands a
178. t clicking on a Server in the Remote Manager Subnetworks can be created by right clicking on a Network i Create New Network Network Information Name Network Description Administrator s account C Create user account for network administrator 1 Right click on a Server Network or subnetwork in the Networks and Groups Pane Select Create Network from the context menu The Create New Network window will appear Provide a Name and optional Network Description If you wish to designate a unique administrator for the Network check Create user account for network administrator Provide login credentials and a default email for this administrator Click OK to complete To associate players with a network drag them from the Connections tab of the Network pane into the given network or subnetwork 6 A warning will appear click OK Delete Network To delete a Network right click on the Network and select Delete Network Click Yes on the warning that appears e The PDS Server e Networks with subnetworks e Networks with players associated including greyed out moved or disconnected players Delete subnetworks and move or delete all players before deleting a network 4 NOTE The following cannot be deleted through the Remote Manager Polycom Inc Al Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Network and Groups Pane Manage Users 1 Right click on a Server Network or subnetwork in the Networks and Gr
179. t image You can adjust the size of the screenshot images shown in this view using the zoom slider immediately below the screenshot viewing area 47 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Network Pane You can select the monitor whose image is used for the screenshots by selecting from the pop up menu immediately below the screenshot viewing area You can select PDS Output Screen this is the default option System Primary Screen or System Secondary Screen Note that if you select System Secondary Screen Remote Manager will show a blank blue screen for all Players that have a single monitor configuration To bring up the Remote Player Management Console double click the Player s screenshot image System Info Like the Connections and Player Status tabs the System Info tab presents a table of the Players in the selected network but with different columns of data to show detailed system status information for the computer Connections Player Status Screenshots System Info PDS Server network packages Computer Name Time Zone Player Name Datapars Data DPID Heartbeat Package GAPDSPLAYER Pacific Standard PDSPLAYER D 7082 2 5 4 9 2 5 4 9 EE POSPLAYERT Eastern Standar PDSPLAYER1 D 1374 25 4 9 2 5 4 9 GAPDSPLAYER3 Pacific Standard PDSPLAYER3 0 7082 2 5 4 9 2 5 4 9 The columns in the table show the following information for each Player Computer name as configured in the Windows Sy
180. t screen See Alerts below Data Ticker Fullscreen Displays a data driven news feed To add 88 Polycom Inc Playlist Editor Using the Web Controller 1 Click on the Params link The template dialog window will appear Template Parameters ce PolycomFeed_PolycomFeed a Click the Add File or button beside the Datasource field Locate the xdsrc file on your computer and click Open NOTE Please consult the Using the Data Parser on page 147 for more information on configuring xdsrc files b Remove all pathway and file type information from the chosen file The Datasource field should contain only the file name of the xdsrc file without the file extension In our example C PolycomContent Data PolycomFeed_PolycomFeed xdsrc becomes PolycomFeed_Pol ycomFeed in the Datasource field c Provide a title and category for the Template 2 Click OK Lobby Crawl Displays the crawling ticker Once the ticker has been begun it will play throughout the Playlist See Crawling Ticker below PowerPoint Ticker LBar Displays a PowerPoint ticker For more information consult Slide Show Tickers below Polycom Inc 89 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Playlist Editor Message Board Displays the Message Board For more information consult Message Board Webcast below Trivia Displays a Trivia sequence To edit the Trivia questions and answers 1 Click on the Params link The Template Para
181. t_Fullscreen Playlist 42 28 PM 01 May 08 e2_Alert_Time e2_Background Next Meeting 00 00 00 xe2_CountdownT imer ya 12 45PM 25 May os Edit Playlist Foreground Select a Type from the drop down menu Text Displays available text styles In the Category box choose from the list of categories 107 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Template Maker Output Settings e Objects Displays available graphic objects for each category Some objects include links to live data In the Category box choose from the list of categories e Templates Displays completed templates In the Category box choose from the list of categories e Images Displays available image files for example jpg tga bmp The Type box displays folders you can browse for selecting images No categories are available for Images e Clips Displays available video clips for example wmv avi mpeg The Type box displays folders you can browse for clip selection No categories are available for clips Template Maker Output Settings The Template Maker rendering window should be configured prior to use To launch the Settings dialog navigate to Tools gt Settings Video Settings Gi Program Settings Category Settings Video Settings Advanced Output Window Output Window Zoom 100 O50 Standard 1280720 x OCustom w 720 H 4s0 Orientation Landscape v Renderer Options C Au
182. ta e Garse E System Volume Information Users v ri hoe e a gt lt il gt seeeeeeoooeerrre Co vi lt The File Manager allows direct management of the files on the PDS Player Using the File Manager administrators can navigate through the files stored on the PDS Player e Ifyou wish to alter or edit a folder right click on the folder A pop up appears Copy Path to Clipboard Rename Move To X Delete Create Package Copy Path to Clipboard Copies the path of the folder as text Rename Move To Allows users to rename or move the folder Delete Deletes the file Create Package Saves the folder as a PDS Package for distribution 58 Polycom Inc Remote Player Management Console Using the Remote Manager e Right clicking on a file will launch the following pop up El Edit File Copy Path to Clipboard Compare amp Download Copy To Rename Move To Delete g Execute View Tail Launches a text editor which displays the last 50 KB to 5 MB of data contained in a file Edit File Launches a text editor with which users can edit files Copy Path to Clipboard Copies the path of the folder as text Compare Allows users to compare files across multiple Players This tool is useful for ensuring that packages have published correctly After running the comparison the following w
183. tal Signage Administrator Guide Data Source Tutorial 180 pdate gt lt b gt Last Update lt b gt lt a gt 8 38 am EDT Jul 5 2007 lt br gt lt a href http www weather gov glossary index php word foreca st valid for gt lt b gt Forecast Valid lt b gt lt a gt llam EDT Jul 5 2007 6pm EDT Jul 11 2007 lt td gt lt tr gt lt table gt lt table width 100 border 0 align center cellpadding 0 cellspacing 0 gt lt tr gt lt td align left gt lt td gt lt td align right gt lt td gt lt tr gt lt tr gt lt td align left colspan 2 gt lt img alt Forecast at a Glance title Forecast at a Glance src images wtf 7dayfcst jpg gt lt td gt lt tr gt lt table gt lt td gt lt tr gt lt tr gt lt td gt lt table width 100 border 0 align center cellpadding 0 cellspacing 0 gt lt tr valign top align center gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Today lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf tsra70 jpg width 55 height 58 alt Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 70 title Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 70 gt lt br gt Heavy lt br gt Rain lt br gt Hi lt font color FF0000 gt 81 amp deg F lt font gt lt td gt lt td width 11 gt lt b gt Tonight lt br gt lt b gt lt br gt lt img src images wtf ntsra80 jpg width 55 height 58 alt Heavy Rain Chance for Measurable Precipitation 80 title Heavy Rain Chanc
184. taller and save it in a place that you will remember You will need this installer for distribution to the Polycom Digital Signage Player Polycom Inc Downloading and Installing the Agent Non Standard Installations 3 Copy the Agent installer executable file from the download location to the PDS Player 4 Directly or remotely access the Player appliance double click on the Agent installer The setup wizard will appear Click Next fill Setup Polycom Agent Welcome to the Polycom Agent Setup Wizard This will install Polycom Agent 2 5 4 9 on your computer It is recommended that you close all other applications before continuing Click Next to continue or Cancel to exit Setup 5 A license agreement will appear Select I agree and click Next A summary screen will appear click Install Setup is now ready to begin installing Polycom Agent on your computer Click Install to continue with the installation 6 No post install actions are necessary After the agent is installed verify in the Remote Manager that the Player is now listed Polycom Inc 163 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Downloading and Installing the Agent Changing Agent Settings on a Player Polycom recommends downloading and distributing a new Player Agent when configuration changes have been made The Agent configuration can be directly changed on each Player however to reflect PDS Server setting changes 1 Righ
185. ted on player output given the resolution 1 Click on the Params link beside AddOn L Bar Streaming Video 81 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide 82 2 The Template Parameters screen will appear Template Parameters ource http plankton mbayaq org Penguins3 MSWMExt itle presenterContent Projects Lobby Project Data Message_VidStream_Title txt Message a Message_VidStream_Body txt Messag C XpresenterContent Projects Lobby Project Data CorpNews_VidStream txt CorpNews_Vi_ Playlist Editor 3 To adda live video stream or website display enter the URL in the text field under VideoStreamSource 4 Toadd a static message Click the browse button under Message_Title a b Inthe dialog that appears choose the text file with the message title A Click Open Qa Next click the browse button under Message_Body e Inthe dialog that appears choose the text file that contains the message body 5 To add a message ticker a Click the browse button under Message_Ticker b Select a text file The Message Ticker displays two lines of text at a time ensure that your text file is edited properly c Click Open 6 Click OK when all changes have been completed Polycom Inc Playlist Editor Using the Web Controller AddOn PowerPoint Schedule Displays a PowerPoint slide of your choosing this template is intended to display a calendar or schedule created in Po
186. template is editable in the Video Slide Content tab of the Web Controller Polycom Inc Playlist Editor Polycom Inc Using the Web Controller e Sports Headlines a default data feed that displays sports news from a pre defined feed This feed updates regularly and populates the template with headlines stories usually one or two sentences and images if possible e Video 16x9 Displays a user designated widescreen video This template is editable in the Video Slide Content tab of the Web Controller e Product Catalog PowerPoint Displays a user designated PowerPoint presentation This PowerPoint can be retrieved edited replaced and distributed as ppt or as a jpg archive via the Slide Show Tickers tab in the Web Controller NOTE The Default Playlist includes preconfigured text video and PowerPoint presentation content However these elements are intended to be user edited For information on adding and editing content in templates please see below Templates The PDS Web Controller includes a library of default templates that can be added to a playlist from the Available Templates drop down The information and possible parameter changes for each of these additional templates follows AddOn L Bar Streaming Video The AddOn L Bar Streaming Video template displays a streaming video or URL a fixed message and a text ticker NOTE Websites are not resized automatically Some sites may be restric
187. the Web Controller e Web Controller Interface Guide e Control Panel e Playlist Editor e Crawling Ticker e Slide Show Tickers e Video Slide Content e Message Board Webcast e Alerts e Settings About the PDS Web Controller The Polycom PDS Web Controller gives administrators remote control over the content and settings of individual Polycom PDS Players In addition to its powerful central content management interface the Polycom PDS Web Controller provides professionally designed and fully customizable templates automated news and data feeds and direct Player oversight Polycom Inc 6l Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Installing the Web Controller Installing the Web Controller Web Controller is supported on Windows XP Windows Vista 32 bit and Windows 7 32 bit Windows Vista and Windows 7 require the additional pre installation steps outlined below Pre Installation Procedures on Windows Vista and Windows 7 1 aoa Aa WS ND Open the Start menu Type MSconfig in the Search field and click enter The System Configuration window will open Go to the Tools tab Select the option Disable UAC under the Tool Name column Click Launch Restart the computer Perform the installation steps detailed below Installation 1 62 Find the Polycom Digital Signage Web Controller installer in the C software directory on the Polycom Digital Signage Server Distribute this file to your comput
188. the basic parameters of the data source and the table into which the data source should be parsed lt General gt contains five or six child elements e lt Url gt specifies the Internet location of the data source Data Parser suports http file and ftp URLs The URL should resolve into a text type such as a plain text HTML or XML file e lt Database gt identifies the database file into which parsed data should be saved e lt AllowDuplicates gt can be either True or False When set to True Data Parser will allow duplicate entries to be created from the parsed data When set to False Data Parser will discard duplicate entries e lt RefreshInterval gt specifies the number of seconds Data Parser waits before reloading the data source s URL e lt TableStructure gt defines the schema of the data table to be created from the parsed data It requires a single attribute Name that specifies the name of the table lt TableStructure gt contains child lt Field gt elements that define the columns of the table The value of a field element is the name of the data table column Each lt Field gt element requires a Type attribute specifying the column s type Currently supported types are Text a 255 character string Memo a 2048 character string and Integer The lt Field gt element also allows optional AllowEmpty and KeyField attribute AllowEmpty can be either True or False and determines whether Data Parser will accept ta
189. tion Files 1 Launch Remote Manager 2 Double click on a Player in the Connections tab to launch the Remote Player Management Console 201 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Changing Output Settings with the XPT ini Configuration File 3 Click Edit Config in the Remote Player Management Console toolbar A drop down menu will appear i Start Process i Playlist Tools Remote Player Management Console Page File CPU Audio Disk C Display 1 Display 2 Where cam you find Senderban National Park SPENCER WUZ HERE 202 EE Player Status Running Processes windows Services Q Parameter General Player Name Self Healing On Status Status changed Last action Performance CPU Load Wave Audio Memory Page File Disk space used Slot Playlist Status Master Volume Status Local Time In Operation sched Now Playing Screenshot Local Ti Last Heartbeat Loc PDSPLAYER3 Yes Yes On Air Good 3 23 2010 3 57 38 PM 15 owu 159 MB 86 62 GB 168 GB free 1 C XpresenterContent Playplists T est New xplst 0 3 24 2010 11 09 50 AM 3 24 2010 11 09 47 AM 3 24 2010 11 03 49 AM XPT ini CG2 ini XHeartbeatSvc exe config Schedule config Commander exe config SelfHealing config PackageHandler exe config Polycom Inc Changing Output Settings with the XPT ini Configuration File Appendix C Configuration Files 4 Choos
190. tiple rows of data For example the headlines from a news feed could be inserted one per row in a table The lt Dataltem gt element has two optional attributes Polycom Inc 175 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Data Source Definition File Overview 176 e URLcan be used to specify a new source that is only used for the parsing rules contained in the lt Dataltem gt element The URL is resolved and its contents are placed into the Source container before any of the Dataltem s parsing rules are applied NumkRecords specifies how many times to apply the Dataltem s parsing rules Any lt ParsingRule gt elements contained in a lt Dataltem gt are applied in their order of appearance up to NumRecords times or until an index aware parsing rule returns an empty value Each time a Dataltem s parsing rules are applied the rules Results are written into a new set of empty containers A new row is added to the data table being created and any parsing rule Results that identify a data table field are written to the new row Setting NumRecords to 0 which is the default value is the same as setting it to 999 Here is a simple example of a lt Dataltem gt element that contains a single parsing rule The following defines a table with a City column and adds 5 rows to that table each containing the value New York NY lt DataSource gt lt General gt lt RefreshInterval gt lt RefreshInterval gt lt Al lowDup
191. tly clear with a low around 69 lt br gt lt br gt lt b gt Sunday lt b gt Mostly sunny with a high near 92 lt br gt lt br gt lt b gt Sunday Night lt b gt Partly cloudy with a low around 75 lt br gt lt br gt lt b gt Monday lt b gt Partly cloudy with a high near 91 lt br gt lt br gt lt b gt Monday Night lt b gt A chance of showers and thunderstorms Partly cloudy with a low around 73 Chance of precipitation is 30 lt br gt lt br gt lt b gt Tuesday lt b gt A chance of showers and thunderstorms Partly cloudy with a high near 88 Chance of precipitation is 30 lt br gt lt br gt lt b gt Tuesday Night lt b gt A chance of showers and thunderstorms Partly cloudy with a low around 72 Chance of precipitation is 30 lt br gt lt br gt lt b gt Wednesday lt b gt Partly cloudy with a high near 89 lt br gt lt br gt lt td gt We ve omitted the rest of the HTML code as it s not pertinent to this tutorial Our first task is to isolate the part of the data that contains the information we want First we remove everything before the Forecast at a Glance string using a TrimToEnd rule lt ParsingRule type TrimToEnd source Source result Source gt lt SearchText gt Forecast at a Glance lt SearchText gt lt ParsingRule gt Note that this rule overwrites the Source container which initially contains the entire HTML text Next we extract the contents of the first lt table gt element afte
192. to size output to match slide dims Auto size slide to match output C Dual monitor mode Full screen Capture Settings Video Capture Filter 0 Audio Capture Filter o T Tuner Channel 0 0 for no tuner Audio Crossbar Setting Width 640 Wait On VSyne Hybrid Note Setting to False increases system performance but may degrade output quality Video Crossbar Setting v Height 480 The Video Settings section includes the following configuration options 108 Polycom Inc Template Maker Output Settings Polycom Inc Using Template Maker Standard Specifies the dimensions of the video output window Choose from a list of standard resolutions 640x480 720x480 DV NTSC 720x486 NTSC SMPTE 720x576 PAL 800x600 1024x768 1280x720 1280x1024 1600x1200 and 1920x1080 Custom Specifies the dimensions of the video output window according to the specified Width W and Height H Orientation Specifies whether the video output window should be displayed in either Landscape or Portrait format in conjunction with the Standard or Custom output window dimensions Auto size output to match slide dims When selected the resolution of the video output window will scale to match the slide template dimensions Auto size slide to match output When selected the resolution of the slide template is automatically scaled to match the resolution of the video output window Dual monitor mode W
193. twork or group which contains sub networks or subgroups then the Network pane will show the Players in the selected group as well as the Players in all its sub networks and subgroups The title of the Network pane will change to show the name of the selected network and the selected group if any Network and Player Management Polycom Inc The Network and Groups Pane is the main interface for network and player management Right clicking a network group or server in the Network and Groups pane will call up the following context menu g Manage Groups Manage Players W Delete Offline Players t Create Network X Delete Network 2 Manage Users J Send Message to RM Users The following sections will explain each function within this context menu Manage Groups The Polycom Digital Signage solution offers two forms of hierarchical organization for players networks and groups Each player is associated with only one network or subnetwork User permissions are determined by network networks can have unique administrators agents and content 37 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Network and Groups Pane managers One potential use case for multiple networks is for an organization with multiple geographic locations and unique content managers for each location Groups can incorporate players across multiple networks Players can also be associated with multiple groups Groups could b
194. ught to a new dialog with a tree view of the Player network Select a Player to run this process by checking the check box next to that Player s name To start the process on the current Player only click Start File Manager Click File Manager to bring up a File Manager view browsing the Player s file system in a separate window The File Manager is described in detail in the section below Reboot Click Reboot to reboot the Player immediately Note that this will reboot the entire system This is the same as selecting Shut Down gt Restart from the Start menu in Windows Set License Click Set License to bring up a menu listing the components on the Player that can be licensed Once you select a component Remote Manager will display a dialog box with that component s product ID and a field for you to enter the component s license key Polycom Inc Remote Player Management Console Polycom Inc Using the Remote Manager Monitoring Settings The Monitoring Settings dialog box allows you to configure different settings for the Player Agent Agent Settings Self Healing Enable Self Healing Load last played playlist when restarting player Player Startup Load playlist on startup Monitoring C Enable Audio Monitoring Video Monitoring System Primary Screen Alarm Conditions Trigger Video alarm if video is missing for 1 minute Trigger Audio alarm when audio is missing for 1 m
195. us I Screenshots System Info File Name Players Do File Size Author Upload Time Delayed Downlo g WebControlContent 20091201_17302 1 1 869 68 KB Administrator 12 2 2009 5 31 36 AM 5 WebControlContent 20091202_08502 1 1 2 46 KB Administrator 12 2 2009 8 52 12 PM 3 WebControlContent 20100121_15191 1 1 5 572 11 KB Administrator 1 22 2010 3 23 47 AM 5 WebControlContent 20100122_10344 2 1 113 205 23 KB Administrator 1 22 2010 10 39 36 PM 5 WebControlContent 20100122_11161 2 1 2 47 KB Administrator 1422 2010 11 17 47 PM 3 WebControlContent 20100122_11184 2 1 2 47 KB Administrator 1 22 2010 11 20 14 PM a WebControlContent 20100122_11244 2 1 2 47 KB Administrator 1 22 2010 11 26 13 PM 3 WebControlContent 20100127_12264 2 47 KB Administrator 1 28 2010 12 32 12 AM a WebControlContent 20100127_13004 2 46 KB Administrator 1 28 2010 1 05 33 AM 5 WebControlContent 20100127_13334 2 47 KB Administrator 1 28 2010 1 38 32 AM 3 WebControlContent 20100127_13341 2 46 KB Administrator 1 28 2010 1 39 03 AM 5 WebControlContent 20100127_13343 2 46 KB Administrator 1 28 2010 1 39 25 AM 5 WebControlContent 20100127_13352 2 46 KB Administrator 1428 2010 1 40 13 AM g WebControlContent 20100127_13360 2 46 KB Administrator 1 28 2010 1 40 51 AM 5 WebControlContent 20100226_17340 82 138 19KB Administrator 2 27 2010 5 36 24 AM g WebControlContent 20100301_ 12454 2 47 KB Administrator 3 2 2010 12 47 46 AM 5 WebControl
196. vailable for use in Polycom Digital Signage applications and required parameters e Standard Commands e Player Specific Commands Standard Commands Polycom Inc APPENDTOFILE Filename lt Text to write Replace line breaks with lt BR gt or BR gt CLEARCACHE CLEARLAYER lt Layer 0 or 1 gt CLEARCRAWL lt Layer 0 or 1 gt CLEARCRAWLTEXT lt Layer 0 or 1 gt CLEARKEYER lt Keyer Num gt CLOSE COPYFILE lt Source file gt lt Dest file gt DELAY lt Delay in secs gt DELETEFILE lt Fi lename gt ENABLECONTROL lt Object name gt lt Layer 0 or 1 gt lt Enable True or False gt ENDPROCESS lt Process name gt EXECSCRIPT lt Script filename gt FLUSHSERIALBUFFER LOADSCENE lt Keyer num gt lt Scene xml filename gt LOADTEMPLATE lt Template name gt lt Layer 0 or 1 gt lt Param List gt lt StyleSheet Filename optional gt lt Transition Optional 0 10 MSGBOX lt Message text gt MUTESPEAKER lt Mute True False gt 167 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Standard Commands 168 MUTEAUDIOCHANNEL lt Mixer channel gt lt Mute True False gt PLAYANIMATION lt Object name gt lt Layer gt lt Offset gt lt Duration gt lt X1 gt lt X2 gt lt Y1 gt lt Y2 gt lt Opacityl gt lt Opacity2 gt lt ScaleX1 gt lt ScalexX2 gt lt ScaleY1 gt lt ScaleY2 gt PLAYAUDIO lt Audio fi lename gt PLAYFLIPBOOK lt Object Name gt lt Layer 0 or 1 gt PLAYKEYFRAMEANIMA
197. vide a target Player 5 Select or unselect Create PPT archive When selected the PowerPoint file will be sent as a jpg archive Note If you do not have PowerPoint installed on the target Player you must select 4 Create PPT Archive 6 Click Send The archive will be created and you will be prompted to select a target Player again To edit the About Company text 1 Edit the About Company text field To retrieve the message from a particular player click Retrieve From Player Note Text longer than 500 characters including spaces will be unreadable in the G About Company field 2 Click Save Then click Update Screen 95 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Video Slide Content Video Slide Content The Video Slide Content tab allows changes to be made to the video template in the playlist From this tab users can edit the Sidebar Message the Standard Format Video Clip List and the Widescreen Video Clip List Sidebar Message Title Eee EE Video Clip List Standard Format 4x3 To edit the Sidebar Message 1 Edit the Title and Text fields as necessary 2 Click Save Then click Update Screen The new Sidebar Message should appear To edit the video clip lists 1 To add a video file to the clip list click Add Clip You can then browse and select a file to add Please ensure that the clip is a supported format Windows Media Quicktime Flash swf or H 264 96 Polycom Inc Message Board W
198. week s on Weekl ee 1 Monday V Tuesday _ Wednesday Thursday D Monthly D _ _ Friday v Saturday V Sunday Range of Recurrence Start 3 9 2010 X No end date End after 12 occurrence s End by 3 9 2000 Cancel 22 Polycom Inc Scheduling Events with the PDS Player Using the PDS Player 10 From the Recurrent Pattern options set the frequency of recurrence Choosing Daily Weekly and Monthly will appear 7 Recurring Event Recurrence Pattern Daily Day 1 ofevery 1 month s D Weekly The Second X Tuesday of every 1 month s Monthly Range of Recurrence Start 3 9 2010 X D No end date End after 12 occurrence s End by 3 9 2010 X 11 From the Range of Recurrence options set start and end dates 12 Click OK 13 The scheduled presentation and any recurrences you specified appear in the PDS Scheduler calendar To delete a scheduled event 1 Inthe PDS Scheduler select the event you want to delete and right click 00 15 Load Presentation lib Lobby Crawl 30 Edit Event 45 Run Event Now 6 00 Delete Event i Delete Recurrence 30 45 2 Inthe menu that appears select Delete Event To delete a scheduled recurrence 1 Inthe PDS Scheduler select any one event from a recurrence you want to delete and right click 2 Inthe menu that appears select Delete Recurrence Polycom Inc 23 Polycom Digital Signag
199. werPoint To add your own schedule template 1 Click on the Params link beside AddOn PPT Schedule 2 The Template Parameters screen will appear Template Parameters PPT_Ticker_Source C XpresenterContent Projects Lobby Project PPT Tickers PP_Ticker_Schedule xppt 3 Click on the browse button This will bring up your list of available PowerPoint templates for selection Click on the PP_Ticker_Schedule ppt file Right click on this file and select Open Polycom Inc 83 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Playlist Editor 4 PowerPoint will launch You will then have the below PowerPoint slide available for changes and population of your required data PowerPoint Schedule Insert Date 8 00 9 00 10 00 11 00 12 00 Time Time Location 01 Meeting Name Meeting Name z Time Location Meeting Name 02 Time Location 03 Meeting Nime Time Meeting Name Location 05 5 From here you can adjust the default information including location names time intervals meeting names etc using the PowerPoint application To change the style of this PowerPoint schedule a Click Select in the PowerPoint Editing panel in the Home tab Select Selection Pane from the drop down menu that appears PITEN E S z2 aje Replace 7 Shapes Arrange Quick z v v Styles 7 Drawing p 84 Polycom Inc Playlist Editor Using the Web Controller b Scroll to the bottom of the Selection Pane Toggle l
200. wl across the screen The following options are available Option Description Left Moves the crawl from the right side of the screen to the left This is the default Right Moves the crawl from the left side of the screen to the right Up Moves the crawl from the bottom of the screen up to the top Down Moves the crawl from the top of the screen down to the bottom Font Specifies which system font to use for the crawl text Copy From Slide button Lets you copy the crawl settings configured in another slide Copy From Clipboard button Lets you apply the crawl settings to the Crawl Settings when a crawl has been copied to the clipboard Copy To Clipboard button Copies the Crawl Settings of the current crawl to the clipboard Polycom Inc Adding and Editing a Crawl Polycom Inc Using Template Maker Setting the Position of a Crawl Open the Layout tab of the Crawl Settings dialog to set the crawl position within the template ia Crawl Settings aay General Layout Layout Preview Pos Width Height Text YPos Image Pos Crawl Spacing X a X a X a X X a Click and drag the crawl panel to adjust its Y position Copy From Slide Copy From Clipboard Copy To Clipboard OK Apply Cancel XPos Specifies the horizontal begin point of the crawl in pixels YPos Specifies the vertical position of the crawl in pixels Wi
201. x in your PowerPoint presentation Enter any text This text will be replaced upon applying the style In the Style Browser choose Text from the Type box Choose a category from the drop down menu a Aa WO N Browse the text styles Right click the style in the browser and choose Apply Style Insert Text Greng Apply Style Edit r 6 The text style is applied to the text Edit the text box as necessary in PowerPoint To create a text object from the Style Browser 1 In the Style Browser choose Text from the Type box 2 Choose a category from the drop down menu 3 Browse the text styles and click a style of your choice 4 Right click the selected style and select Insert Text Alternatively double click the given style 5 A text box with the selected style will appear in the center of the slide Edit the text box as necessary in PowerPoint To add new text styles to the Style Browser As you customize the look and feel of a text object so that it conforms to the style of your current production you will most likely want to reuse the text style on subsequent slides You can easily add a text style to the Style Browser The Text Style Gallery has its own PowerPoint file named StylesText_Default ppt which you must open to add a new style You then copy the newly designed text object from the PowerPoint file in which you are working to the Text Style Gallery PowerPoint file 119 Polycom Digital Signage
202. xt Video_ar To add a video a Click the browse button under ClipFilename b Choose a video file in the dialog that appears c Click Open To add a PowerPoint ticker a Click the browse button under PPT_Ticker b Choose a PowerPoint file in the dialog that appears c Click Open d You will be prompted to create a PowerPoint archive Click Yes To edit the message text a Click the browse button under Message_Text b Select a text file in the dialog that appears c Click Open Click OK Polycom Inc Playlist Editor Polycom Inc Using the Web Controller AddOn Video Fullscreen Displays a full screen video To add a video 1 Click on the Params link The template dialog window will appear Template Parameters rce e0s 16x9 Polycom and Defense Acquisition University Distance Learning wmv_ 2 Click the browse button Choose a video file from your content directory and click Open 3 Click OK AddOn VideoStream Displays a live video stream if a non video URL is designated the template will display that URL To add a video stream 87 Polycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Playlist Editor 1 Click on the Params link The template dialog window will appear Template Parameters 2 Enter in the source URL for the website you would like to reference Click OK Once changes are made save and distribute to the players Alert Fullscreen Displays an aler
203. y audio output from the Player This usually indicates a problem with the Player Note that Enable Audio Monitoring must be checked for this condition to trigger an alarm Missing heartbeat The Player regularly updates a timestamp file the heartbeat that is checked by the Agent This alarm condition occurs when the heartbeat has not been updated by the Player in the specified interval This usually indicates a problem with the Player however for very graphics intensive templates or on lower end Player systems you may need to lengthen this interval to eliminate false alarms caused by the Player simply being overloaded e Click OK to apply your changes and close the dialog box e Click Cancel to discard your changes e Click Apply to apply your changes but leave the dialog box open e Click Apply To to apply your changes to multiple Player systems Clicking Apply To will bring up a new dialog with a tree view of the Player network Select Players to receive these changes by checking the check box next to each Player s name Edit Config This is used for advanced trouble shooting Please do not modify these settings without direction from Polycom Support Restart Polycom Player Click this if you wish to restart Player s in your network If the Player does not have Load previous playlist selected you will have to manually load a playlist using the Playlist Load functionality found in the toolbar Alternately you could pub
204. ycom Digital Signage Administrator Guide Configuring PDS Player Advanced Settings e Command folder Displays the folder to which the commands are stored on the system for use with other PDS applications such as Remote Manager or Web Screens Playout Settings The Playout Settings of the Advanced Program Settings are as follows e Player Mode box Standard Configures the PDS Player to function as an authoring station Interactive Configures the PDS Player to function as an interactive kiosk station NOTE Interactive mode is not supported in most implementations Please do not G select this option without input from Polycom support Interactive Window When in Interactive Player Mode defines the topmost and leftmost location XPos YPos and size Width Height in pixels of the interactive window e URL Loader Window When displaying an internet browser window defines the topmost and leftmost location XPos YPos in pixels of the Loader window 14 Polycom Inc Using the PDS Player This chapter outlines local control of the Polycom Digital Signage Player Ina typical implementation however all configuration and content management will be performed through the PDS Remote Manager and PDS Web Controller Please note that these tools are described in subsequent chapters This chapter includes the following sections Getting Started e The PDS Player Interface e Scheduling Events with the PDS Player e Contro

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