Introduction to Directional Signs Content Slots

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.

Directional signs walkthrough

1. In the PAM navigation menu, go to 360 Planner > Digital Signs

2. Select DIGITAL SIGN MAP tab

3. You have a few options in finding your sign. You can either,

• Use the search bar to type in the sign name

• Apply the sign filters to show all directional signs

• 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

6. Activating pixel design will make the Directional sign content become a pixilated font

Content slots section

Content slots allow you to place both Destination and Messaging Dictionary items into each slot to display Directional sign content.

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

9. The reason why some of the Destination dictionary items in Content slot 1 (i.e. Experience Parking B,O) is greyed out is because these locations have been disabled in Map Editor. This means the dictionary items (Experience Parking B,O) linked to these locations are hidden and aren’t currently in use

10. You can configure each slot by clicking the settings icon

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11. This lets you adjust the text size

12. This lets you adjust and indent the text

13. This lets you place a line above the slot (i.e. Maintain Social Distance has a line on top of it to separate it from Lake Park)

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

16. Change background colour if options have been given

17. You can see a preview of all the changes you do instantly

18. 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 provide easier visual accessibility

To add colours, follow these steps.

1. Click on the settings icon of the content slot you want to do this in

2. You can see the text and background colours appear. Please note that default text colour is white and default background colour is black

3. We have selected the white default text colour

4. We have selected a green background. When green is selected, it automatically becomes disabled as a text colour option. This is to avoid choosing the same colour for both text and background

5. As we have shown in the photo above, we now have a section of the directional sign with a green background and white text

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 possess any colours.

7. Save changes

Switching or adding more colour options

You might be wondering what if 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.