Digital Signage - Appspace Channels
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.
Creating and Organizing Channels
You can create channels in three different ways from the Appspace console. You can use the Quick Actions button on the top right of the navigation bar, the Add button in the channel widget on the Appspace dashboard, or you can navigate to Channels in the Appspace menu. The Quick Actions button and the Add button in the channel widget are shortcuts that will automatically create a Playlist channel.
A playlist channel will display content in full screen, and you can add preloaded content from your library or upload new content directly. You can select individual content or entire folders to populate your channel.
A great way to organize your channels is to place them into channel groups. For example, an employee on-boarding channel group might contain a channel about employee benefits, a channel about business tools and system access, and a channel about the workplace.
You may select from the list of channels that are available, and add multiple channel types in a channel group.
Similar to publishing individual channels, you may publish a channel group to specific users, multiple user groups or all users, as well as individual devices, or multiple devices registered with Appspace, allowing you to publish these groups as you wish, depending on the audience or desired devices.
The Settings page allows you to change the channel group name, update the description, or delete the channel group. An administrator can add users providing them with publishing permissions. A publisher can approve changes, edit content, and update the channel settings.
The simplest way to create and publish interactive and robust content is via the playlist channel. Playlist channels are lightweight but powerful when paired with a myriad of Appspace cards and customizable content playback properties. Playlist channels are ideal for enterprise messaging, corporate signage, workplace communications, productivity chart displays, and touch-screen room bookings. |
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Working with Widgets
- Layouts are the different slides that collectively make up a Channel
- Within a layout you can add two types of content
- Widgets
- Media
- Widgets allow you to display media from a variety of sources
- Some examples of Widgets include
- Flash Containers
- RSS Feeds
- Media Zones
- Weather Forecasts
- To access widgets, open the Visual Editor and then click Add Widget
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 and also create Playlist in Media Zone Widget.
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.
A live channel is rather easy to create. There is no preview available for this channel type, however, in the Publish tab, you can assign this live channel to devices and users, directly register a device or invite users, and choose to publish to all users or the entire network.
The advanced channel has a rather long history with Appspace. This is the original ‘signs extension’ used to create dynamic and interactive digital signage with images, videos, video streams, and widgets, for single-display deployment and video walls. Originally built heavily using HTML and Flash, the advanced channel framework has now been remodeled and functions solely on the Progressive Web App (PWA), while still keeping all its impressive tools intact.
Find out more about this change to PWA here: https://blog.appspace.com/2018/10/advanced-channels-pwa-upgrade/
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