InfoScreen User Manual
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3. Add slides to the new Slidegroups The slides that InfoScreen show are either html documents or bitmap images gif jog Images are stretched to fill the whole screen In InfoEdit you define which documents you will show the path to where they are located for how long each slide will be shown and in which order they will be shown InfoScreen Information System User Manual To add a new slide select the slides tab in InfoEdit and select which Slidegroup you want to add it to in the Groups drop down list Then right click in the Slidelist and select Add slide from the menu grups Fill in the path to the slide document file in Production E the Address field The slide documents Add must be located in a path where all the ides ado t that will show them nh h E Waming http 7192 computers that will sho em can reach This weeks menu them If you have created a folder on your server where you store the database file a tip is to create a folder for each Slidegroup at the same location to store your slide documents It s also possible to add an URL or ftp address if you want to use a document on the Internet or your Intranet To browse for the right path to your slide document click the button next to the address field Enter the time in seconds for which the slide will be shown in the Showtime field Numbers Showtime 4 3 Add new users If there are several users that will administrate the
4. DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS AND YOU MAY HAVE OTHER RIGHTS DEPENDING ON THE LAWS IN YOUR STATE YOU AGREE THAT THE LIABILITY OF LEC ARISING OUT OF ANY KIND OF LEGAL CLAIM WHETHER IN CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU ORIGINALLY PAID FOR THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE Anders Natanaelsson All rights reserved Used under authorization InfoScreen Information System User Manual Contents 1 WAtROGUCTION ERR R Ro aa PRESAS PER ERREI ER RR ERR ERR nies peti fesse afelaedese 4 2 System requirements errar 4 3 INSTA ALON voices oy ened ee dearer eters Casas nba aura sd 5 3 1 Copy the database file anna nana a eaaa anaa nana 5 3 2 Run the installation program 5 4 Getting started ss do Tan TS aga TENG a NGGE N TENG NA NTT E NGGEN iea 6 4 1 Add new Slidegroups renais 6 4 2 Add slides to the new Slidegroups aanenanen anana n anana 6 4 3 Add new USCIS asinan ni angan a aeaa pa d aaa aba na aeia aE Eade kania 7 5 AMOSCreeN aa Kg ANE e aici TEKA NGE NE ene 8 6 INfOEGIt aas ga aga aie AENG ga ath erie Sac 9 6 1 Slides Tab is aas aga eet ek eels een en gana 9 6 1 1 Add a new slide to a group 9 6 1 2 Change the name of a slide ii 10 6 1 3 Edit slide addres
5. system you can add different users that are allowed to administrate different groups This is done in the Users tab in the InfoEdit program Here you can create new users and select which groups they are allowed to administrate You can also create group administrators who are allowed to create new slide groups and to add new users to administrate their Slidegroups To add a new user click the Add User button fill in a username and a password for the new user New users are by default a normal user and have only privileges to add and change slides in the Slidegroups that they are administrators for The groups that a selected user is allowed to administrate are listed in the Users groups list and the groups that the current user is able to add are listed in the Available groups list Select which groups the new user should New group 4 Ze New group 6 administrate by Production E Transport select the new user from the User drop down list Then move the groups to Users groups by selecting it in Available groups and click the right arrow button Available groups Users groups InfoScreen Information System User Manual 5 InfoScreen InfoScreen is the screensaver that will view the slides defined in the InfoEdit program When InfoScreen is started for the fist time on a computer the computer will be registered in the InfoScreen database It will get the same name as it has in the ne
6. InfoScreen ScreenSaver that Informs InfoScreen Information System User Manual Copyright 1999 Anders Natanae Isson InfoScreen Information System User Manual SOFTWARE LICENSE AND LIMITED WARRANTY PLEASE READ THIS LICENSE CAREFULLY BEFORE INSTALLING OR USING THE SOFTWARE BY USING THE SOFTWARE YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE DELETE THE SOFTWARE AND ALL RELATED FILES FROM YOUR COMPUTER AND PROMPTLY RETURN THIS PACKAGE AND ITS CONTENTS TO THE PLACE OF PURCHASE This product collectively the Software are the copyrighted property of Anders Natanaelsson collectively referred to as LEC The Software is licensed not sold to you and LEC owns all copyright trade secret patent and other proprietary rights in the Software You may only use the Software on as many computers that are licensed to you You may not 1 copy other than once for back up purposes distribute rent lease or sublicense all or any portion of the Software 2 modify or prepare derivative works of the Software 3 transmit the Software over a network by telephone or electronically using any means except in the course of transmitting the Software to your licensed target computers over authorized networks or 4 reverse engineer decompile or disassemble the Software You may transfer the Software but only if the recipient agrees to a
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8. groups that can be accessed are shown in a drop down list at the top of the dialog and the slides in that group are listed under it Each slide is defined as an address to the document or image and for what time it will be shown 1 InfoE dit x Slides Groups Users Groups Produktion kd Address Ji is pd fist_side htm ja E Production report E VARNING Showtime New employee 20 E Todays menu Slides 6 1 1 Add a new slide to a group To add a new slide to a group first select the group to which the slide should be added from the Groups drop down list Thereafter right click the mouse on the list of slides and choose New Slide from the menu There will be a new slide added to the end of the list with the name New slide where is an index number InfoScreen Information System User Manual 6 1 2 Change the name of a slide To change the name of one slide first select the slide whose name you wish to change Thereafter single click it and the name will become editable When the name is right click somewhere in the slide list to save the change 6 1 3 Edit slide address To edit the address to a specific slide choose the slide from the slide list and add or change the contents of the address edit field It s also possible to browse for the right address using the button to the right of the address edit field 6 1 4 Change the Showtime for a slide To edit the Show
9. he menu There will be a new slide added to the end of the list with the name New group where is an index number 6 2 2 Change the name of a Slidegroup To change the name of one group first select the group whose name you want to change Thereafter single click it and the name will become editable When the name is right click somewhere in the list to save the change 11 InfoScreen Information System User Manual 6 2 3 Remove Slidegroup Select the group you want to remove and right click on it Choose Remove Slidegroup from the menu 6 2 4 Edit object info To edit the object info on the bottom of the dialog just select the edit field and edit the text The information will be saved as soon as you leave the edit field 6 2 5 Remove computer from Slidegroup To remove a computer from one group select the computer and right click on it Then select Remove computer from the menu 6 2 6 Delete computer from InfoScreen Database Only users with Administrator privileges can do this To remove a computer from the Computergroup list select the computer and right click on it Then select Delete from the menu 6 2 7 Delete Computergroup from InfoScreen Database Only users with Administrator privileges can do this To remove a computergroup from the Computergroup list select the computergroup and right click on it Then select Delete from the menu 12 InfoScreen Information Syste
10. m User Manual 6 3 Users Tab This tab is used to administrate the different users that are allowed to use the information system There are three types of users Administrator Are allowed to administrate all the slides and Slidegroups An administrator can also add new users of any kind Group administrator Are allowed to administrate which computers that will see his groups and are allowed to add new Normal users to administrate the slides in his groups Normal user Are only allowed to administrate the slides in his groups A normal user will only see the Slide tab page 1 InfoE dit x Slides Groups Users 3 Exit User Add user E admin H ENIGVE Use Type of user Administrator hai Change Password Available groups Users groups Transport E New group 1 Produktion 6 3 1 Add user To add a user push the Add user button and fill in the name and password for the new user 6 3 2 Remove user Select which user you want to remove in the User drop down list Then push the Remove button to remove the user 13 InfoScreen Information System User Manual 6 3 2 Change password Select which user you want to change the password for in the User drop down list Then push the Change password button to change the password 6 3 3 Change the type of user Only users with Administrator privileges can do this Select which user you want to change Type of user
11. ormation in the form of html documents or bitmap pictures using Microsoft Internet Explorer Which information slides there are which groups of slides and which computers that will show which slides are stored in a central database To administrate this database you use the InfoEdit program If you want to show the information without waiting until the screensaver starts you use the InfoView program 2 System requirements PC with Pentium processor or better MS Windows 95 98 NT 4 0 MS Internet Explorer 4 0 or higher About 2 3 MB free harddrive space InfoScreen Information System User Manual 3 Installation 3 1 Copy the database file Before you run the installation program you have to decide where to place the database file infoscreen mdb and then copy it there from the database folder on the installation CD The database file must be located in a folder where all computers will reach it and so must later on the slide files A tip is to create a folder on your server called InfoScreen EL Infoscreen which to all computers on the network have read database write access In this folder you create another Slidegroup1 folder called database in which you put the C Slidegroup2 database file Later you can also use the C Slidegroup3 infoscreen folder to store the slidefiles 3 2 Run the installation program To install the InfoScreen programs run the setup exe file from the installation CD The installation
12. program will then guide you through the installation If you don t have MS Internet Explorer 4 0 or later installed the installation program will suggest that you install it It s though recommended that you install Internet Explorer before you start the InfoScreen installation After you have accepted the license agreement you can select which programs you want to install and where to place them e InfoScreen Is the actual screen saver Should be installed on every computer that should be able to show slides e InfoView Is a viewer program used to view slides without starting the screensaver e InfoEdit Used to administrate the system Should only be installed on computers where you should be able to do this In the next step you will be asked for the path to the database file Either enter the path in the edit field or use the button to browse for the right path When you have checked the summary text click the next button and the installation program will copy the files to your harddrive and the programs are ready to use InfoScreen Information System User Manual 4 Getting started To edit the InfoScreen database you use the InfoEdit program When InfoEdit is started it asks you for a username and a password InfoScreen is distributed with one user called admin with no password i e you shall leave the password field blank InfoEdit has three main tabs e Slides is used to define which slides there are
13. s naenin ng gananing aana 10 6 1 4 Change the showtime for a slide 10 6 1 5 Remove a Slide e anan pi nekani agi 10 6 1 6 Change slides order anaa anana aane na nana na anana na anae 10 6 2 Groups Tab ngoi ere tien a ee era eee 11 6 2 1 Add new Slidegroup es 11 6 2 2 Change the name of a Slidegroup 11 6 2 3 Remove Slidegroup aane a aana anana en anae 12 6 2 4 Edit ObjeCtINfO psie anaa saa gagang aan aan a aaa gak ageya 12 6 2 5 Remove computer from Slidegroup 12 6 2 6 Delete computer from InfoScreen Database 12 6 2 7 Delete Computergroup from InfoScreen Database 12 6 3 Users Tab sanan Lona nn aa pane adani na aliar share sa amei 13 6 3 1 AGG MUEI EE sana a sana ine tier decodes 13 6 3 2 REMOVE USED ikana daa ae Aak aing a kada nekani 13 6 3 3 Change password naen aane n anana nana ene anne 14 6 3 4 Change the type of user anane anane a nean 14 6 3 5 Add or remove Slidegroups rights from users 14 7 AnfOMIOW niaga na hai a ea das 15 InfoScreen Information System User Manual 1 Introduction With InfoScreen Information System you can use your local PC network to distribute information instead of installing an information TV system InfoScreen uses the PCs screen saver function to show inf
14. time of a specific slide choose the slide from the slide list and add or change the contents of the Showtime edit field 6 1 5 Remove a slide Select the slide you want to remove and right click on it Choose Remove slide from the menu 6 1 6 Change slides order To change the order of which the slides will be shown select the slide you want to move press the left mouse button without releasing it and drag the slide to the position you want it in and then release the button 10 InfoScreen Information System User Manual 6 2 Groups Tab In this tab you administrate the different groups in which you can organize your slides The right list contains all the computers that are registered in the InfoScreen database The computers are separated according to the different workgroups on the net to help you locate them in the list The left list contains the Slidegroups that you are allowed to administrate and the computers that will monitor these groups At the bottom of the tab any information on the selected object Computer or Slidegroup can be edited Gi InfoE dit x Slides Groups Users Slidegroups Computergroups a EE Production ES ftyget E DUCKEN E DUCKEN Hb TF New group 5 HH TF New group 6 E JACK ER Transport E BELLS E GRANT E GRANT E BELLS E JACK Description 6 2 1 Add new Slidegroup To add a new slide group right click in the Slidegroup list and choose New Slidegroup in t
15. twork configuration Infoscreen INFO x In the screensaver settings dialog the name of the computer and which slide Computer name groups it s added to is shown Check DUCKEN About the Read DB continuously check button to make InfoScreen read the database every time the slidshow starts over This to check if there s been anything added If the checkbutton is not checked InfoScreen will read the database once when it s started Reading the database continuously will put a bit harder load on the network InfoScreen use Microsoft Internet Explorer to show the slides This means that it can view every format of slides that is supported in Internet Explorer such as html gif and jpg It also means that the slides are cached on the local computer which lightens the load of the network Shown slidegroups Produktion Read DB continuously InfoScreen Information System User Manual 6 InfoEdit The InfoEdit program is used to administrate the database To be able to run the program you must have a user name and a password When InfoEdit is started for the first time there is one user named admin with no password New users can be registered by users with administrator privileges InfoEdit is divided into three main tabs in which you administrate the different parts of the database 6 1 Slides Tab This tab page is used to organize the slides that should be shown for each single group The different
16. where the slide document z is located and for how long time each Slides Groups Users slide should be shown e Groups is used to define in which groups the slides are divided Here you also define which computers that will show which group e Users in this tab you can add different users that are allowed to use the InfoEdit program and give them different privileges The first thing you should do when started InfoEdit the first time is to change the admin password Click the Change Password Button in the User tab to do this Then you fill in the new password 4 1 Add new Slidegroups Next you should decide in which groups you want to divide the slides For example a department or a project can be one group Then decide which computers that should view which groups One computer can be added to view one or several groups of slides To create the different slide groups and add computers to it you use the group tab in the InfoEdit program To add a new Slidegroup right click in the Slidegroups list and select New Slidegroup A new Slidegroup called New group 1 appears To change the name of the Slidegroup click on it once and the name will become editable Click somewhere outside the name when the name is right To define which computers that will show the slides in this group select the computers in the computer list and drag them to the slide group you want to show using the drag and drop technique E GRANT 4 2
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