Customizing the Room Display
Difficulty: expert
Learning Objectives
After reading this article, you’ll be able to:
Create and edit custom themes & profiles
Push application settings and custom themes and profiles to your devices
Room Display customization is done through Device Control Platform, see
Device Control for Kiosk App: general information on Device Control platform
Custom Content: guidelines on how to upload and push custom content to end users via the room display
Profiles & themes, who will define the look & feel of your app, are described below
Profiles vs themes
PROFILES | THEMES |
|---|---|
 Enable or hide features, decide on app settings, |  Add custom logos, change colours, etc. |
Editing Profiles
Remember to check if the Device Hardware specifications are compatible with the chosen features (eg not every device supports NFC, or has a camera to allow for identification through QR code scanning)
On Identification Methods
User ID = Workplace User ID (starts with tenant name, follows format “tenantname.userid”)
Scan QR Code (available for TD-1060 and TD-1070)
Scan NFC Tag, check Room Display FAQ and troubleshooting | Hardware related questions on which NFC Protocols are supported and how to use the NFC functionality (only available on TD-1070)
E-Mail address
“Plays after inactivity of…” should be minimum 1 minute, since the response of Kiosk app is also dependent on the response time of the device.
Logo Recommendations: Landscape with aspect ratio 6:1
Screensaver requirements:
File Type: mp4
Size: under 50MB
URL needs to be publicly available (e.g. on youTube or your own website). Workplace does not offer a service to host videos for your organization
Audio on the device should be disabled, or remove the audio from the video
The frame width and height need to be compatible with the device. Most devices will not rescale the video. The resolution for QBIC room displays can be found in this overview table.
If one or more of these requirements are not met, the screensaver will not start, show a black screen or freeze at the first frame.
Themes
Deleting a Theme:
If you delete a theme that is in use by a device, you will get a warning message;
if you choose to continue, the default theme will be applied to the device
Push application settings, profiles & themes to your devices
If you have few devices to configure, we recommend to push configurations to devices one by one
Note
Selecting a level of a location hierarchy (i.e. Region) will not narrow down the next level (i.e. Room). This will produce an error if there is a mismatch.
If you would like to narrow down the spreadsheet, go to the master data tab and filter on your building, then copy and paste the correct room.
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