Marquees
We call them Marquees, but you may know them as Andon or Visual Display Management systems. Whatever you call them, we have provided a rather simple method of providing a set of rotating dashboards to TV screens located throughout your plants.
As part of the default install, you should have received a project called kanoaMarquee. This project contains nothing more than a page through which we can pass parameters back to the marqueeDisplay view to indicate where this marquee is to be displayed. We could have added this page to the kanoaMES project, but its likely that you'll want to configure the project to not have security and to automatically update whenever changes are made in the designer.
The page url consists of /marquee/display//:siteCode/:location/:screenName which allows us to send the site, location at the site and tv screen identifiers.
For a giant TV mounted say in your Texas site, in the breakroom, you would create a startup shortcut on the TV embedded PC to open a browser or a Perspective workstation to
http://demo.kanoa.ai/data/perspective/client/kanoaMarquee/marquee/display/Texas/Break%20Room/TV4
You'll need to change the demo.kanoa.ai to point to your gateway.
The Marquee Display Editor
Whenever a TV or device opens a browser to the gateway marquee display, that device is registered as a marquee display device. In the Marquee Editor screen, you can now configure which marquee is to be displayed on that device and what theme to set. All changes are immediately updated on the device. All configuration for your TVs and devices throughout your plant can be configured centrally from the kanoaMES application with no need to change anything on the device itself.
If no marquees are configured for the device, the default dashboard will be displayed. If you only want to show a static display on a tv, simply create a marquee with a single dashboard.
The Marquee Editor
A marquee consists of an ordered list of dashboards with how long they should be displayed for.
It really is as simple of that. Create your widgets, create your dashboards, create your marquees and point your tvs to the kanoaMarquee project.