Preferences

Whenever you create a new project, various presentation properties will be set using the default settings. If you often use the same set of properties, you can save time by changing the default settings to what you use most often. To edit application preferences, navigate to Admin > Application Preferences. Select Apply Changes to save changes to your preferences, or Reset to reset them to the initial or previously saved values. Note that Reset will not change any values that have already been saved.

Video

The Video dropdown allows you to specify default settings for video states. 

• Volume: Specify the volume of the audio. 

Video In

The Video In dropdown allows you to specify default settings for the Video In state. 

• Time on Screen: The amount of time (in seconds) that the image displays on screen before transitioning to the next item. 

Image

The Image dropdown allows you to specify default settings for image states. 

• Slide Transition: Use the dropdown list to set an effect for image transitions.

• Transition Duration: Specify how long the transition effect will take to complete. This duration should be less than the Slide Delay Interval. 

• Slide Delay Interval: Set how long each image displays (in seconds).

IR Remotes

Use "+" to add an IR Remote Configuration. Select Browse to load custom remote codes from a CSV file. Your CSV file should be formatted like this example: 

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Adding IR remote codes

For the IR code .csv, only NEC protocol is currently supported. IRscrutinizer may be helpful for converting from commonly-found formats like Pronto.

The Decimal value is the combination of the Code (common prefix) followed by the Unique Value. So for RC-1001, for example... Custom Code: 6F90

hex 6F9016

See Remote Control Specifications (RC-1001, RC-1002) for RC-1001 and RC-1002 codes.

Interactive

Use the Interactive dropdown to set a default timeout period for events. 

Live Text

Use the Live Text dropdown to edit default preferences for text fields in Live Text states: 

• Alignment: Use the dropdown list to set whether the text is left-aligned, right-aligned, or centered.   

• Foreground Color: Set a default color for the text. 

• Background Color: Set a default color for the background of text fields. 

• Font Size: Select Set Fixed Point Font Size to enter a value for the font size (1-500). 

User Interface

The User Interface dropdown allows you to edit various options related to the BrightAuthor:connected UI, including selecting Beta features as of BrightAuthor:connected v1.26. See Image 1.

You must select Apply Changes for your changes take effect.

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Content

• Enable Image File Resize Dialog: If this is selected and you try to add a 4K image to a presentation that has been created with a 2K Target Resolution, a dialog box will give you the option to scale the image down to 2K.

• Enable Image File Resize: If this is selected and you add a 4K image to a presentation that has been created with a 2K Target Resolution, the image will be automatically scaled down to 2K so it can be added to the presentation.

Publishing

• Disable Save Schedule Dialog: Disables the dialog box which asks if you would like to save the schedule as a separate file when you exit the Schedule tab. 

• Discard changes: Discards any unsaved Schedule changes.

Presentation

• Disable Save Presentation Settings Dialog: Disables the dialog box, which asks if you would like to save your changes, that appears when you exit the Presentation tab. 

• Discard changes: Discards any unsaved Presentation Settings changes.

Live Media Feed

• Disable unsaved warning: Disables the dialog box warning that you may have unsaved Live Media Feed changes when you exit the Content tab. 

• Discard changes: Discards any unsaved Live Media Feed changes.

Live Data Feed

• Disable unsaved warning: Disables the dialog box warning that you may have unsaved Live Data Feed changes when you exit the Content tab. 

• Discard changes: Discards any unsaved Live Data Feed changes.

Dynamic Playlist

• Disable unsaved warning: Disables the dialog box warning that you may have unsaved Dynamic Playlist changes when you exit the Content tab. 

• Discard changes: Discards any unsaved Dynamic Playlist changes.

Tagged Playlist

• Disable unsaved warning: Disables the dialog box warning that you may have unsaved Tagged Playlist changes when you exit the Content tab. 

• Discard changes: Discards any unsaved Tagged Playlist changes.

Transition Display Mode

Determines how BrightAuthor:connected draws event connections between states in the interactive playlist area.

• Automatic: Displays either a line or a label, depending on the current playlist layout. 

• Display Line: Displays event lines between states. 

• Display Label: Displays numbered event labels that show connections between states. 

Transition Label Location

Determines where numbered event labels are located. 

• Bottom: Numbered event labels are located below states. 

• Right: Numbered event labels are located to the right of states. 

Presentation Destination

Refers to which save destination folder a saved presentation will go to when BrightAuthor:connected is in Local Content mode. 

• Last Used: The destination defaults to the last folder used to save a presentation project.

• My Documents: The destination defaults to the My Documents folder. 

State Defaults

Set the following State properties panel view defaults:

• Advanced Panel: Set the default for this panel to expanded or collapsed.

  • Entry Commands: Set these commands to expanded or collapsed by default.

  • Exit Commands: Set these commands to expanded or collapsed by default.

Event Defaults

Set the following Event properties panel view defaults:

• Target State: Set the view for these options to expanded or collapsed by default.

• View Options: Set the view for these options to expanded or collapsed by default.

• Advanced Panel: Set the default for this panel to expanded or collapsed.

  • Commands: Set the view for these options to expanded or collapsed by default.

  • Conditional Targets: Set the view for these options to expanded or collapsed by default.

Storage

Selecting Enable Reserve Storage allows you to divide the presentation storage device (SD card, USB device, etc.) into different segments. You can then allot maximum sizes to those segments to ensure that a certain type of data does not take up too much space on the storage device. 

The segment types are specified as follows:

• Published Data: The maximum size allotted to all presentation and content files that are written to the storage device during the publishing process. This includes audio, video, images, text, and HTML content files. 

• Dynamic Data: The maximum size of all dynamic content, including Dynamic Playlists and MRSS feeds. When this segment runs out of space, dynamic content files will be deleted to create space, starting with the oldest files first. 

• HTML Data: The maximum size of the HTML application cache. 

• HTML Local Storage: The maximum size of all JavaScript variables and data. 

• HTML IndexedDB: The maximum amount of storage allocated to the IndexedDB web database application. 

• Total: The sum percentage or amount of MB allotted. 

Network Hierarchy

The Network Hierarchy allows users to set either All Players or Player Group as the default in the Hierarchy pane (see Image 2). When Network Hierarchy is not set, All Players is the default setting. Groups and Group View are only available for Content Cloud networks.

Toggle to your desired preference and then select Apply Changes to set it as the default.

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Image 2