Signage Configuration Options
- Zachary Restifo
- Mark Albis
If your organization installs Digital Signage, it will pull and display data from various tools and web applications including the News System, YSM Calendar, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc. However, the settings for the touchscreen itself are managed in Tridion using a signage schema component.
Please see the table below for an explanation of each field in the signage schema and how each setting affects the touchscreen display.
Digital Signage Schema Options
Item | Input Options | Description |
|---|---|---|
General Screen Configurations (Sets up Digital Signage parameters) | ||
Parent Organization |
| Updates the word-mark and logos published on the signage to reflect the appropriate organization. |
Signage Location Name | Free text | Enter the location name in this field if you want to identify the specific office where the signage is located (e.g. Office of Education or Sterling Hall of Medicine). |
Do you want the screen to rotate to different modules every few minutes? |
| If set to |
Select the period of inactivity (in minutes) before the Digital Signage rotates modules or returns to the default module. |
| Sets the inactivity time in minutes for screen rotation or before the screen returns to the default module. |
Set the Default Module |
| Sets the module for the Digital Signage default screen. If module rotation is set to |
Physical Location of the screen | Latitude and Longitude coordinates | Used for mapping directions to be displayed for available mapped data. Latitude and Longitude can be found here: https://www.latlong.net// |
Happening Now Module | ||
Select 2-4 modules to display on the “Happening Now” page |
| Sets which columns will display on the “Happening Now” screen. You can select as few as two or as many as five modules. We recommend selecting no more than four modules. |
Number of items to display in each module |
| Determines the number of items to display in each section of the “Happening Now” page. |
Social Media Module | ||
Social Media Source |
| Enter the alias of the Facebook or Twitter pages you want to display (e.g., if your Facebook account is https://www.facebook.com/YSMWeb, enter YSMWeb). Only enter one account per field. |
Account Handle or Name | Facebook or Twitter alias. Click the green | Enter the alias of the Facebook or Twitter pages you want to display (e.g., if your Facebook account is https://www.facebook.com/YSMWeb, enter YSMWeb). Only enter one account per field. You must first register your Twitter account with the YSM app. For more information, visit the Twitter Instruction page. If you've already registered your Twitter account, you do not need to do this again. |
Multimedia Module (Multiple modules can be added by clicking the green | ||
tridion Gallery | Tridion components, including: List, Image, Media Library, or YouTube/Vimeo | Insert a Tridion component by clicking on the yellow folder. For galleries of images or videos, insert a List component. Single image, Media Library or YouTube/Vimeo components can also be added but must use the respective Tridion component (e.g. "YouTube and Vimeo", "Media Library" or "Image". These operate exactly like the components you create to put on a page on your website. |
External gallery URL | URL of external (non-Yale hosted) gallery. | If you want to display multimedia content that is not stored in Tridion or the Media Gallery, such as a YouTube channel, insert the full URL of the external gallery (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/user/YaleUniversity). |
Date | MM/DD/YYYY + Time | Identifies the date the item was published. This is not required. |
News Module | ||
OrgID for organization-specific news | OrgID (Number) | Insert the Profile System OrgID for any news to display that has been tagged with the respective organization. |
Enter keywords (one on each row) to limit news to specific keywords | Keyword IDs (number, one per line) (you can add multiple keywords by clicking the green | You can limit the type of news displayed on the Flyerboard by adding keyword IDs. Note, these must be the Keyword IDs (not the actual Keyword), which can be found http://yale-faculty.photobooks.com/organization/xmlFeed.asp?orgID=OrgIDNUMBER |
Article to override article in the main news slot | Article ID (number) | Inserting an Article ID will show the respective article in the main news slot on the News page. Otherwise, the most recent article will display in the top slot. |
Announcements Module | ||
OrgID for Announcements | OrgID (Number) | "Announcements" is another type of view to display articles from the News System. Insert the Profile System OrgID for the organization’s news you want to use for Announcements (i.e.,109631). |
Keyword ID for announcements | Keyword ID (Number) | Insert the Keyword ID for the news system tag you want to use for “announcements.” Note, these must be a Keyword ID (not the actual Keyword), which can be found http://yale-faculty.photobooks.com/organization/xmlFeed.asp?orgID=OrgIDNUMBER |
Digital Signage Module (cork board module) | ||
Digital Signage calendar alias to be used | Free text (one per line) (you can add multiple calendars by clicking the | Determines which flyers will appear in the Digital Signage module. In most cases, this will be the same as the calendar module. Enter the calendar alias from tools.medicine.yale.edu. For example, if calendar is located at https://medicine.yale.edu/web/support/applications/, the alias is “psychiatry.” If left blank, the signage will display flyers from the main School of Medicine calendar. |
Calendar Module | ||
Calendar Module pulls in events from tools.medicine.yale.edu | Free text (one per line) (you can add multiple calendars by clicking the | Determines which events will appear in the Calendar module. In most cases, this will be the same as the calendar module. Enter the calendar alias from tools.medicine.yale.edu. For example, if calendar is located at https://medicine.yale.edu/web/support/applications/, the alias is “psychiatry.” If left blank, the signage will display events from the main School of Medicine calendar. |
People Module | ||
People Search: OrgID(s) | OrgID (Number) | Enter the OrgID for your organization (can be found in the Profile System). This will be used for the people search functionality. To enter multiple Orgs, separate each OrgID with a comma. |
People Search: Search single organization or search child organizations? |
| Select |
People Search: searchType |
| This sets which fields are searched in the Profile System.
|
People Search: What is the person search type? |
| Select the person classification to search. If set to |
People Search: Limit to those people credentialed by YMG |
| If set to |
Org information for List by Location: OrgID | Free text | Enter the OrgID used to show locations. |
Org information for List by Location: Search single organization or search child organizations? |
| Select |
Parent OrgID used to generate the "List by Organization" page | Free text | Enter the main OrgID to be used to generate the list of organizations associated with your group. |
International Activity Module | ||
OrgID for International Activity | Free text | Enter the OrgID to be used to display international activity. |