Creating the Broadcast message event-to-action - Security Center Digital Signage Management 2.3

Security Center Digital Signage Management Plugin Guide 2.3

Applies to
Security Center Digital Signage Management 2.3
Last updated
2023-05-26
Content type
Guides > Plugin and extension guides
Language
English
Product
Security Center Digital Signage Management
Version
2.3

Using an event-to-action, you can trigger messages associated to a tag to be activated or deactivated on multiple signs when an event occurs.

Procedure

  1. Open the System task, and click the General settings view.
  2. Click the Actions page, and click Add an item ().
  3. From the When drop-down list in the Event-to-action dialog box, select an event type.
    1. (Optional: ALPR only) If you select License plate read, you can specify a condition for LicensePlateRead events.
  4. (Optional) In the From drop-down list, select the entity that triggers the event.
  5. From the Action drop-down list, select Run a macro.
  6. From the Macro drop-down list, select Broadcast message.
  7. In the Context option, click Override, and configure the macro's execution context:
    1. In the Macro's execution context window, in the Tag name field, enter the name of the tag.
    2. If the event-to-action should activate the tag, turn on the IsTagActivation option. If the event-to-action should deactivate the tag, turn off the IsTagActivation option.
    3. Click OK.
  8. In the Effective option, click Always, and select a schedule when this event-to-action is active.
  9. Click Save.
    The Save button is only available when all the arguments required by the event-to-action type are specified.

Results

The new event-to-action is added to the list of system actions.