This screen shows you all the external files such as picture, video, audio, RTF,
PDF and text files used in your presentation. When a presentation loads,
it looks for new versions of these files so that the latest information is
always displayed. You can use this screen to see all the external files
and also to update them quickly.
Key
Black lines - These are files used in the presentation and the original
files exist on this system. These files will be displayed without
problems.
Blue lines - These are web
browser controls where you will only see the website page if you have Internet
access. These files are not stored in the
system
cache.
Green lines - The original file that was inserted
into the presentation is not available. However, there is a copy in the system cache,
so these file will be displayed.
Red lines - The original file is missing and we
don't have a copy in the system cache. This file will not be displayed at
all and will affect the look of the playing presentation.
View button
Highlighting a file and clicking on the 'View' button will open the file using
whatever default program your copy of Windows has for the particular file type.
A text file, for example 'c:\MyText.txt' will open using the Windows Notepad
program on most systems. Windows has a list of 'File associations' that
says a file with a file extension of 'txt' should be opened with Windows
Notepad.
Edit button
Highlighting a file and clicking on the 'Edit' button will open the file for
editing using whatever default program your copy of Windows has for the
particular file type. A picture file, for example 'c:\MyPicture.gif' will
load in Windows Paint by default (unless you have another graphics package on
your system). This is different to using the View button as this will
usually display the file using Internet Explorer or Picture Preview.
Edit cached button
This will allow you to open the cached version of the file. See
Repeat Signage System Cache for more
information. This button is only really useful if the original file is
missing from your system. For example, when someone else sends you a
presentation to edit and that file that contains allow the pictures, videos,
etc, with in itself.
Error list button (only appears if there are errors)
This will give more information on errors. The information that
appears is in geek-speak and is useful for sending to our Support Department
which will help them to identify the source of problems.
RSS feed files
You should not use this screen for editing RSS feeds. On the main Repeat
Signage screen use the 'Tools' then 'RSS Feed Manager' to create and publish
RSS feeds for use in your presentations.
Tools menu - Restore missing files from cache to their original
locations
If you have any 'MISSING BUT CACHED' entries, this may be because you have
opened a presentation created on another computer with contained content
files, such as pictures and videos, within the presentation. These are
automatically placed within the
Repeat Signage System Cache so that the
presentation and find and play the files. This option allows you to
extract them from the cache to their original locations, so that they can be
edited.
Trouble shooting problems
Read the information below on 'Changing Windows file associations' it
may be that your copy of Windows does not have a file association for
your type of file.
Changing Windows file associations
To change the default program a type of file opens with, you need to use Windows
Explorer (Start button then 'Computer' or 'My Computer' depending on your
version of Windows'. Find a file, such as a picture file, then
double click it. Windows will open it with it's default program. To
change this default, then right mouse click the file and select 'Open With' and
then 'Choose program' . You can then select a program from the list, or
you may need to use the 'Browse' button' you manually file the program's .exe
file under the 'c:\Program files\<program to use>' folder. Put a tick in
the 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file' tick box and
then click on the 'OK' button.