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- Fixed Text: Displays simple, static text. A text field will appear below Text Type, where you can type your customized text. As you type, you can view the text in the preview image.
- System Variable: Displays the device serial number, firmware version, script version, or other System Variable value. Use the dropdown list to determine which value you would like to display.
- Live Text Data: Displays content from a Data Feed in the text field. The displayed Data Feed item will remain fixed and will not cycle through feed items like an RSS ticker (use the RSS Feed type for this functionality). However, you can still update the text in real time by modifying the feed on the server and changing the description associated with the item title or index.
- Add Data Feed: Click this button to add a Data Feed to your presentation. You can use any feed type (RSS, Live Data Feed, MRSS, Dynamic Playlist) as Live Text Data, but you must specify the Data feed content usage as Text when adding the Data Feed.
- Data Feed Name: Select the desired Data Feed from the dropdown menu.
- Item title: Specify the feed item to display using the Title/Name of the item.
- Item index: Specify the feed item to display using the index number of the item.
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- Media Counter: Displays how many times a file in the presentation has played. Each Media Counter field must correspond to a specific file. Use the dropdown list to pair the Media Counter field with a file in the presentation. To use this feature, Media Counters must first be enabled: Navigate to File > Presentation Properties > Variables and check the box labeled Automatically create media counter variables.
- User Variable: Displays the current value of a User Variable. Use the dropdown list to specify a User Variable for the text field. To use this feature, you must first create a User Variable.
- RSS Feed: Displays content from an RSS feed. To edit the amount of time each RSS item is displayed, click Set Text Parameters and modify the Time to Display Each Line field.
- Update RSS URL List: Click this button to create a list of Data Feeds to use as RSS sources.
- Display RSS title: Check this box to display the title of the RSS item.
- Display RSS description: Check this box to display the description of the RSS item.
- Media RSS Feed: Displays content from a Media RSS (MRSS) feed.
- Update Media RSS URL List: Click this button to create a list of Data Feeds to use as MRSS sources.
- Display Media RSS title: Check this box to display the title of the MRSS item.
- Display Media RSS description: Check this box to display the description of the MRSS item.
- Display Media RSS media: Check this box to display the media item associated with the MRSS item.
- Custom fields: If your MRSS feed contains custom text fields, this section will allow you to show or hide the custom fields as required.
- Image: Select this option to display an image over the background image. Select Browse to locate an image file to use in this item.
- Validate Live Text Data: Click this button to verify that the source URL for the selected Live Text Data item is valid.
Customizing the
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Text Parameters
Click the Set Text Parameters button to edit customize the parameters for a selected text field.
- Alignment: Use the dropdown list to set whether the text is left aligned, right aligned, or centered.
- Foreground text color: Click Choose to select a color for the text.
- Background text color: Check this box to include a background color for text fields. Click Choose and set a default color for the backgrounds.
Transparency: Drag the bar to set the transparency for the background text color.
Note title Note Transparency does not appear in the Live Text image preview or in Presentation Preview. You will need to publish the presentation to a BrightSign player to view the level of transparency.
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