What are channels in Appspace?
Channels are the medium used to organize and publish content to a desired audience. Channels are simple but powerful tools ideal for publishing captivating, brand-consistent, and interactive content for the workplace, which are compatible with many industry-standard devices and operating environments. Appspace in Solvay has three channel types :
Playlist channel
Live channel
Advanced channel.
A playlist channel is the most commonly used channel type. It is simple to build and manage, and is ideal for displaying interactive messages on digital signage, room scheduling tablets or boards, kiosks, multi-screens, and even as wallpaper on collaboration endpoints. Playlist channels with cards offer a dynamic and robust messaging combination.
A live channel is ideal for streaming TV channels by simply configuring it to show a live video stream and EPG data, while an advanced channel offers the most flexibility.
Advanced channels are useful when building complex digital signage solutions, kiosks, and interactive display on industry-standard devices.
Appspace channels simplify the process of creating and distributing standards-based communications. It only takes three steps to get your message out:
- Create a card using a branding-approved template or add media to the Library.
- Add the card/content to a channel.
- Publish the channel to devices or users.
Playlist channel
Playlist channel
A playlist channel is our most simple yet powerful and most commonly used channel, built using the latest HTML5 framework. The playlist channel is ideal for digital signage, video walls, multi-screen synchronization, wallpapers, corporate messaging, room scheduling, and much more. All you need to do is add images, videos, or one of our many purpose-built cards. You may add content individually or add an entire folder of content.
When editing a playlist channel, there are three tabs available: Edit, Preview, and Publish.
Here, not only are you able to add or remove content, but you can also configure content playout properties such as transition types, aspect ratio, frequency restrictions, the duration of each content, and daypart scheduling for every content, or for a folder with multiple content.
In the Preview tab, you are able to preview the channel’s content, played as a slideshow. However, due to browser limitations, not all transitions and media formats will display correctly.
The Publish tab is where devices and users are assigned access to the playlist channel. You may also directly register a device or invite a user here, and choose to publish to all users or the entire network.
The Settings page provides information such as the network and channel groups the channel belongs to, and allows an administrator to configure approval permissions, as well as assign an editor and a publisher. A publisher can approve changes, edit content, and update the channel settings, while an editor is able to edit content in the channel but may require approval.