In this article, we will give you a quick introduction into understanding and configuring directional signs.
Directional Signs are used to display ‘directions to locations’ and ‘messages’ on a digital sign. The purpose of having these signs is to help pedestrians and drivers navigate through external spaces.
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We will go straight to explaining the layout of Directional signs. Please ensure you have already created a Digital Sign Identifier and added a Digital Sign to Map Editor. These two articles are useful to read before going through this one if needed: Creating Digital Sign Identifiers |
Directional signs walkthrough
1. In the PAM navigation menu, go to 360 Planner > Digital Signs
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3. You have a few options in finding your sign. You can either, -
Use the search bar to type in the sign name
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Apply the sign filters to show all directional signs
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Locate and select your directional digital sign on the map
The right-hand side section will pop up when a sign is selected
4. The layout says ‘Directional Sign’ which means we are on the correct sign
5. The sign type is V3.2, meaning this specific sign is targeted towards vehicular environments
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6. Activating pixel design will make the Directional sign content become a pixilated font
Content slotssection
Content slots allow you to place both Destination and Messaging Dictionary items into each slot to display Directional sign content.
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7. Destination dictionary items will always have a light blue glow around it
8. Messaging dictionary items will always have a yellow glow around it
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You can put both destination and messaging items into the same content slot. |
9. The reason why some of the Destination dictionary items in Content slot 1 (i.e. Experience Parking A, B,N,O) is greyed out is because these locations have been disabled in Map Editor. This means the dictionary items (Experience Parking A, B,N,O) linked to these locations are hidden and aren’t currently in use
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14. This lets you put the 2nd dictionary item to the next space to avoid overlap. This button won’t work if there is only one item in the slot and if two dictionary items are not occupying the same line. (i.e. They need to be in the same line to move the 2nd dictionary item to the next line below)
15. Change text colour if options have been given
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17. You can see a preview of all the changes you do instantly
18. Save changes
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Tidying up content slots
In this example, we will show you how to organise your content slot dictionary items to look tidy and clean on your directional sign
1. Notice how Listen for announcements looks a bit off inside the DSM preview. This means that visitors to your site will see it exactly like that which isn’t a good look and could be confusing
2. Inside Content slot 4, Listen for announcements is seen as 1 long dictionary item name which we want to look like that instead of the one currently in preview
3. To fix this, go and click on the settings icon
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4. Click on the left arrow line. This will take Listen for announcements to the next line below while ensuring it is still part of the Lake Park section
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5. We can see in the preview that it now looks a lot neater and more organised. Minor adjustments such as these will help enhance the feel and look of your directional signs
6. Save changes
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Adding colour to content slots
You can also add colour to your content slots. They may look like the example below. Applying colours helps certain information stand out to visitors while they are at your location and can help provide easier visual accessibility
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6. Notice how only the dictionary items in slot 4 inherits this change. The colours come from the dictionary item themselves when you configure them in the dictionary tab. In this example, the colours of green and blue came from the Lake Park dictionary item but since Listen for Announcements is also in the same slot, they will also inherit these colours even if they don’t have possess any colours.
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We explain this process in-depth in our other article, click here |
7. Save changes
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Switching or adding more colour options
You might be wondering what if Listen for Announcements the dictionary item “Listen for Announcements” also had their own colours inside their dictionary item.
If that were the case then it would simply be added to the list. Look at the photo below.
Listen for Announcements now have the colour of yellow and brown so they have been added to the list of colour options and since they are also inside slot 4, Lake Park would also be available to have these colours applied to them.
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