We have a client using a screen to welcome clients to their office. We created a presentation with multiple live text fields for their receptionist to be able to enter names using an xml file with excel. They now want to be able to schedule a weeks worth of names in advance. Looking for the easiest way to do this as simple as possible (i.e. receptionist updating). Thank you
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Wenda Thompson I'd like to know how you did the above. I am trying to basically do the same thing. How are you setting up the XML and Excel?
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Alex 1) You can use the LiveText feature to put text on the screen and update text remotely. The information can be read from a XML file based on a simple rss format:
http://support.brightsign.biz/entries/20951306-How-does-LiveText-Data-work-with-XML-RSS-files-XML file should have multiple item tags each including a title and description. The description is normally what's displayed. You can use the title as a lookup value.
LiveText is documented in BrightAuthor user guide:
http://brightsignbiz.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/BA%203.7.pdfDemo showing how to use LiveText for a menuboard in addition to using a BSN account:
http://www.brightsign.biz/demos/hd/
Search for "Live Text Menuboard"So, you can create XML file, place it in your web folder (or you can use a brightsign network account to create and host an XML file), and specify the http link to XML file in Brightauthor presentation. Then, you edit the description tags in XML file, and the brightsign sees the value change and display updated text on the screen. The unit can check XML file every 30 seconds. If you have a brightsign network account, you can use straightforward webUI to update the text.
2) You can update the text on the screen via udp commands that you can send to the brightsign unit from a mobile phone, tablet or computer that is on the same local network with the brightsign unit. To do this you need to add variables to the project, add LiveText object to the project, and use the LiveText to displays variables on the screen. The values of variables can be updated via udp or serial commands. See this faq for further details:
http://support.brightsign.biz/entries/23574663-Display-UDP-message-with-Live-Text-How-to-
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