In this article, you will learn how to activate an Experience inside a banner slideshow for it to be displayed on a directional sign. The banner slideshow acts as an Experience a slideshow carousel that flips through experiences that have been linked to a specific directional sign. This helps promote experiences that may be happening at a location.
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To determine what kind of Directional sign type you wish to use and for a detailed explanation on them, please click on this article here.
Adding an Experience to a Directional sign
Steps
1. In the PAM navigation menu, go to 360 Manager > Experiences
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3. Scroll to the OPTIONS section
4. Activate Show “Show this experience in banner slidesslides”. This will let the experience be seen on the directional signs. If you choose to activate this toggle, you also need to select the directional signs you want this experience to be seen in, in Step 12
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Activating an experience to be seen in banner slides means that when you activate banner slideshow inside a directional sign, you can see the experience appearappears. The experience will be is shown according to how long it’s being held at the start and end date of the location. Once the When an experience finishes, it will disappear automatically disappears from the banner slideshowsign. |
5. The default setting, is this experience will be shown 365 days before it is happening
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Note: If you selected add experience you will need to fill in the rest of the information before being able to saveit can be saved. Please click on this article on filling out experiences here. |
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The experiences inside the Banner Slideshow will automatically disappear once the Experience has officially ended. For example: If Australian Open finishes at 5pm on the 5th of February, then once that date and time is reached, all Australian Open that has been activated in the Banner Slideshow will disappear and no longer be visible. You do not need to do anything. |
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Adding more Experiences to the Banner Slideshow
Now that you have learnt how to add an experience to a directional sign and activated the banner slideshow, we will show you how to have multiple experiences appear in a continuous cycle in the same directional sign.
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Large-size screens uses square portrait images, so you need to ensure your experience contains a 1080 x 1080 px image. |
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Adding an Experience with customised QR Code colours on a Directional Sign
We will show you how to add a QR code to support an Experience that is currently being played as part of the Banner Slideshow. The benefit for including a QR code will allow anyone to scan it to find out more information instantly about that specific Experience being displayed on a Directional sign.
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White: black border - This is a regular QR code with a black border around it
7. Save changes
IMAGE UPDATE NEEDED
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QR code colour options
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Now that we have adjusted our Banner Slideshow settings, we will find a sign with an Experience linked to it and activate the Banner Slideshow to show you how the QR code will look like.
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17. We have two Experiences active for this Directional sign. This means that after 3 seconds, the Experience will change and Dallas Cowboys vs LA Rams will appear. (This is because in Step 5, we configured Seconds per slide to 3 seconds). This will keep alternating between Doctor Strange and Dallas Cowboys vs LA Rams
18. Save changes
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Banner Slideshow Configuration Settings
This section will show you how long an experience is displayed before it moves to the next experience as well as making sure your digital signs have the correct display size to avoid any overlaps and cropping issues.
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The sign types this change is applied to are: V3.1, V3.2, P3.1, P3.2 |
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Which Sign Display and Sizes can support showing QR Code in Banner Slideshow?
The QR code in Banner Slideshow can only be supported by certain screen sizes. We have provided a general guide on which sizes you need to configure to in order to show the QR code on your signs below.
SIGN TYPE | BANNER SCREEN SIZE | QR CODE APPEARS |
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P 3.1 Pedestrian Directional Sign | Small - 1/4 screen Medium - 1/2 screen Large - full screen | ❌ ❌ ✅ |
P 3.2 Pedestrian Directional Sign | Small - 1/4 screen Medium - 1/2 screen Large - full screen | ❌ ❌ ✅ |
V 3.1 Vehicular Directional Sign | Small - 1/4 screen Medium - 1/2 screen Large - full screen | ❌ ❌ ✅ |
V 3.2 Vehicular Directional Sign | Small - 1/4 screen Medium - 1/2 screen Large - full screen | ❌ ✅ ✅ |
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QR Code on different sign types examples
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Banner Sign Display Size Examples
We will show you examples on how an experience can look like on different sign types.
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Notice that P3.1 is pole mounted and P3.2 is floor standing but they are the same in terms of screen size dimensions.
Comparison of P3 and V3 signage
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Banner Size Small 1/4 Screen
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Banner Size Medium 1/2 Screen
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Banner Size Large Full Screen
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Banner Directional Sign Cropping Limits
When uploading a photo, you may notice that parts of the banner are automatically cropped more than it should. This is because some photos are wider / longer in width and height than others and requires some cropping to avoid overloading the page. You will need to remember to preview your directional sign with the banner images in-place before deciding whether to keep or change it. This all depends on the dimensions of the image
View in Portrait mode
Any part of the image that touches the green border means that it will be cropped out when it’s viewed.
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View in Landscape mode
Any part of the image that touches the green border means that it will be cropped out when it’s viewed.
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