Creating and activating scenes
In this article, you will be introduced to the scenes feature in PAM. This article provides a quick guide to all the functionality involved for you to make full use of this feature.
The information below includes more details on scenes, the sections have been divided for your convenience, if needed.
Overview
Scenes provide the functionality to change the content displayed on digital devices within an environment.
You are able to make a new scene for every environment change that happens in your location. This will save time from having to always change one scene but can simply switch to it with a click of a button.
This allows the environment to adapt to different situations at any time and at any place.
Each scene has the following information:
1. Whether it is active or not
2. Scene no.
3. Scene name
4. Scene description
5. When it was last active
6. When it was created
7. The ability to edit a scene
8. The ability to duplicate a scene
9. The ability to lock/unlock a scene
a. An unlocked scene can be edited, has not been approved, not currently active
b. A locked scene can’t be edited, can be active, automatically become locked once approved
10. The ability to delete a scene
11. The ability to view additional scene details which include:
a. UUID
b. Activity log
c. Change log
d. Review log
e. The ability to request approval and/or decline/approve a scene (this is covered in another section below)
How to Create a New Scene
Steps
1. To get into the scenes page, click on 360 Manager > Scenes
2. Click on [ADD SCENE]
3. Fill in Scene Name
4. Fill in Scene Description
5. Click on the 'Tick' icon to save
How to Activate a Scene
Steps
To get into the scenes page, click on 360 Manager > Scenes
1. To activate a scene, you must ensure that the scene is locked. Click on the padlock symbol to lock the scene. If the intended scene is already locked, go to the next step.
2. Click on the circle on the left side of the scene row to activate
3. Click [ACTIVATE]
4. The user should now see a green status box with ACTIVE on it. The scene is now active
How to Request Approval for Changes
Steps
1. To request approval from managers, you must unlock the scene
2. Click on [CONTINUE] on the unlock pop up to successfully unlock the scene
3. Review your changes by clicking on each blue link
4. Once you are sure of your changes, click on the [REQUEST APPROVAL] button
5. Assign a Manager to review scene changes
6. Once you have selected a Manager, click [SUBMIT]
How to Approve Changes on a Scene
Steps
1. Open the scene and review the changes by clicking on the blue link/s
2. Once you have reviewed the changes, you may [APPROVE SCENE] or [DECLINE APPROVAL]
3. If you approve, you may enter a comment for your own record
4. Click on [APPROVE] to successfully approve the scene
HINT: Please remember to always save changes no matter how small AND if other pages are opened in different tabs, you must refresh them for the changes to be seen.
For example, in this article, the user may have Scenes and Digital Signs opened in different tabs. When Scenes have been modified and saved, the Digital Signs tab needs to be refreshed to see the new changes.