Repeat Signage V5 help
System settings - Local variables tab
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Example usage
Lets say, for example, your business may have 5 sweet shops around the country
and a head office. Each shop may have a computer connected to a plasma screen
which displays your presentation. The computer, via any Internet connection, can
periodically check for a new picture file that has an advert for that day's
special offer. You want to use the same presentation for all 5 shops but
you would also like to display:
Welcome to our London shop
Welcome to our Edinburgh shop
Welcome to our Manchester shop
Etc
depending on the shop's location. You can use the location 'local
variable' in the text in your presentation as follows:
Welcome to our <VAR:LOCATION> shop
This tells the system to look at the local variable settings in the Location
box and to then replace <VAR:LOCATION> with that boxes contents. On each
of the 5 shop player computers, you would enter the city name in
the location box.
You also have
<VAR:CUSTOM01>,
<VAR:CUSTOM02>, etc, that you can use for any purpose. In the above
example we were replacing <VAR:LOCATION> with London. However, you may
also want to use the uppercase LONDON in another piece of text. You could
use say
<VAR:CUSTOM01> for this. For example, the text:
<VAR:CUSTOM01> STORE
would be replaced with:
LONDON STORE
EDINBURGH STORE
Etc
You can use the local variables in either text, RTF, or static HTML files.
Static HTML files are website pages without dynamic content such as video.
Local variable names
<VAR:COMPANY>
<VAR:LOCATION>
<VAR:CUSTOM01>
<VAR:CUSTOM02>
<VAR:CUSTOM03>
<VAR:CUSTOM04>
<VAR:CUSTOM05>
<VAR:CUSTOM06>
<VAR:CUSTOM07>
<VAR:CUSTOM08>
<VAR:CUSTOM09>
<VAR:CUSTOM10>