Creating messaging dictionary items

In this article, you will be shown how to create messaging dictionary items. Messaging Dictionary items are not intended to be Destinations/Locations, but focuses more on regulatory information for people to follow. e.g. ‘Maintain social distancing’ or 'Please slow down'.

Adding in a messaging dictionary

Steps

1. In the PAM navigation menu, go to Dictionary > Messaging Dictionary

2. Type: This section displays the category of that dictionary item

3. Copy: The name of the dictionary item created

4. Linked assets: This shows how many assets (i.e. if being used in a digital sign) this dictionary item is currently linked to. You can click on it to see the specific signs and specific scenes it is linked in

5. Edit button used to edit the dictionary item

6. Select this box button to choose a dictionary item and to delete it on the bottom right red bin icon

7. On the left-side of this page, you can see all existing dictionary categories

8. [+ NEW DICTIONARY ITEM] button to create a new dictionary item

We will get started and create our own dictionary item.

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9. Display Name: This is the name of the messaging dictionary. The example in the photo shows ‘Lockdown in effect’

10. Approve the messaging dictionary item by activating the tick symbol. This makes the dictionary item searchable and available to be assigned to a location. If you do not approve, you will not see this dictionary item come into effect

11. Description: Fill in a short summary of the purpose of the messaging dictionary item

12. Click on the dropdown for the languages section

13. Simplified Chinese: You have the option of putting in the Chinese name for this dictionary item

14. Korean: You have the option of putting in the Korean name for this dictionary item

15. Arabic: You have the option of putting in the Arabic name for this dictionary item

16. You will need to approve the ticks to make them green which makes them activated

17. Category: Choose a category for this dictionary item

18. Search tags: You can put a bunch of tags that best describes the dictionary item (i.e. #drivers #safety). These are alternate words or phrases to help describe the Dictionary Item and is used when searching to find locations

19. [UPLOAD] logo / icon. This will give you the option of showing the logo / icon instead of the dictionary item name on the eXplorer map

20. Text colour: The default is black. You can change it if preferred

21. Background colour: The default is white. You can change it if preferred

22. Notes / Comments: You can add notes to the dictionary item if you have important things to let people be aware of

23. Change log: Lets you see the history of this dictionary item and how often it has changed and when it has been modified

24. Linked assets: shows which digital signs this dictionary item has been linked to and makes it easy to access

25. Save changes

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This is an example of how we use messaging dictionary content on Digital Signs

Changing category of an existing messaging dictionary item

You can change categories instantly without editing the dictionary item.

For messaging dictionary do the following:

1. In the PAM navigation menu, go to Dictionary > Messaging Dictionary

2. Activate the box by ticking it. We have ticked “Follow staff directions”

3. In the bottom area, click on the icon next to Change Category. This will give you options to change into a new category

4. You will see the other existing messaging dictionary categories. We will choose REG regulatory as our new category

5. Notice that once we selected a new category, it instantly changed. Follow staff directions now has an REG next to it, confirming the category change was successful