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"We will not leave you floating"
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Knowledge Base
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"We will not leave you floating"
- DISE Support Team |
Knowledge Base
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An essential part of a good signage installation is relevant content - not just aesthetically pleasing, but aimed at the right audience, and up-to-date! The content should also be effectively organized to save a lot of time in management.
I recommend to decide on a general visual structure and base your content around this. Start with a limited palette of company or preferred colours and a fixed size logo to identify you as the message sender. Here you can make good use of channels - put the content that will not change (logos etc) in a separate channel. For example, the following three channels are designed separately and subsequently stacked on each other:
This is the result:
You might also decide to put certain information in different areas of the screens, which is also something you can use channels for.
Once the general layout is decided on, feel free to experiment with movements, transitions and so on but remember - less is often more!
I recommend to keep the number of fonts in your presentation as low as possible. Put the fonts in a separate folder and set Composer to only use those fonts.
Once you have decided on a structure, you may make a template out of the parts that should be editable. This way you can restrict someone from making too large of a change to the content. You may even create your own default template, to handle when someone drag-and-drops an image or video directly on to the Scene View in Composer or the playlist in Bridge.
It is recommended to test out a good media format for video, images, etc and to the best ability stick to this media format in all DISE Movies. This includes resolution, bitrate, etc, and should be adjusted to play smoothly on the installed hardware as well as look good on the installed screens.
Read more: File format support
Read more: Video format recommendations
In Bridge, use players and groups of players to create a hierchical order of content.
People quickly lose interest when a presentation shows outdated news (olds?). Even if no one person is actively updating the content regularly, DISE can be setup to dynamically read information as it comes in. For example, a twitter feed is downloaded, formatted and displayed in a table, a lunch menu is presented only during lunch hours, or the latest images from the world cup are shown in a slideshow. Using schedules, data connections and the various objects in DISE, there are tons of possibilities.
When DISE is installed, by default a folder called DISEContent is also created. This folder provides a starting point for a physical structure of files. The final structure is of course up to you but I recommend keeping everything together, to make it easier to create backups, share content and so on.
When deciding to share content between several users, a common thing to assume is that everyone should be able to change everything. On the contrary, maybe some people in the organization do not need to have access to the presentation itself (the DISE Movies)? Rather, they may only need change a text file or an Outlook meeting, and the presentation is dynamically updated. DISE Parser together with data connections give ways to create dynamic information paths that don't require manually editing the presentation itself.
For several people to edit the DISE Movies themselves, follow the instructions on this page to proceed:
Read more: Sharing content
To make sure that all files work everywhere, please work with filenames consisting of non-Unicode characters and avoid special characters, including but no limited to Dollar ($), Ampersand (&), Plus (+), Comma (,), Semi-colon (;), Equals (=), 'At' symbol (@), 'Pound' character (#), Percent character (%), Left Curly Brace ({), Right Curly Brace (}), Caret (^), Tilde (~), Left Square Bracket ([), Right Square Bracket (]), Grave Accent (`), Accented characters (é,è,ë,ñ,àù,ô,î, etc).