Creating messages for the Digital Signage Management plugin - Security Center Digital Signage Management 2.3

To display messages on your variable message signs, you must first configure your DMS messages. You can create shared library messages through the Digital Signage Management plugin role, and create private library messages through the DMS entity's configuration.

1. To create a shared library message:
   1. From the Config Tool home page, open the Plugins task.
   2. From the entity tree, select the Digital Signage Management plugin role, and click the Shared library messages tab.
2. To create a private library message:
   1. From the Config Tool home page, open the Area view task.
   2. From the entity tree, select your DMS entity, and click the Messages tab.
3. Click .
   The New message window opens.
4. Configure your message:

   Alignment

   Select an alignment for the message text

   Text color

   Select a text color for the message

   Background color

   Select a background color for the message.

   NOTE: Shared library messages with more colors than a sign's color scheme allows can still be activated on the sign.

   Placeholders

   Add dynamic information to a message. For more information, see Placeholders in the Digital Signage Management plugin.

   Priority

   Select if this message should override other messages activated on signs. For more information, see Message ranks and priorities in the Digital Signage Management plugin.

   Preview all

   Select for the preview pane to cycle through the message text of all configured pages. If the message only has one page, this selection has no effect.

   Message text

   Enter the message text for each of your message's pages. The default number of pages for a shared library message is 3.

   NOTE: If you want to add a blank message and are using an LEDYears sign, add spaces to the message text lines you want to leave blank.

   Font

   Select a font for the text in each row to be displayed in.

   NOTE: Only fonts added to the DMS plugin Font list will be available here.

   Graphics

   To add a graphic to your message, click , select the image to use and its alignment, then click OK.

   Name

   Enter a name for the message.

   Rank

   Assign a rank to the message from 1 - 999. The default is 100. For more information, see Message ranks and priorities in the Digital Signage Management plugin.

   IMPORTANT: The Security Center Digital Signage Management plugin uses NTCIP ranking, where bigger numbers have a higher priority rank and smaller numbers have a lower priority. This is different from Security Center, where smaller numbers have a higher priority, and bigger numbers have a lower priority.

   Category

   Create a category, or add the message to an existing category by entering the category name. The default value is General.

   Page on time (tenths)

   Specify a time period during which the pages of a message are displayed. The unit for this value is tenths of a second.

   Page off time (tenths)

   Specify a time period during which no message is displayed. If this value is set to zero, the message is constantly displayed. The unit for this value is tenths of a second.

5. Click OK.
   The new message is displayed in the message library under its associated category.
6. Select your message and click .
7. From the Available tags list, select the tags you want to use and click .
   Tip: To associate multiple tags at the same time, hold Ctrl, select your tags, and then click .
8. Click OK, then click Apply.
9. To delete a message, select it and click .
   CAUTION:

   The system does not prompt for confirmation before deleting a message.
10. To add the custom message to the shared message library, click .