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Introduction to SignApps Express
Download and Launch
Introduction to User Interface
How-to
Edit Playlist
Edit Presentation
Edit Schedule
Export Playlist
Any average user can make professional digital sign with it
Flexible with media content types
Video, image, audio, PowerPoint and HTML5
Auto discover all players on LAN network
No need of IT person to get start
Easiest digital signage software
PowerPoint
Image
Widgets
Music
Image Video
Install SignApps Express to your Windows PC (WindowsVista/7/8/10)
Design the content to show on screen from template
Export your content to screen via network or USB
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Download SignApps Express package
http://suzohapp.com.au/contact-us/software
Double click the package file to install, setup wizard will take you through the
process
After installation, double click the shortcut to launch SignApps Express
Introduction to User Interface User Operation Flow
Main Menu
Template List
Presentation Editor
Schedule Editor
Event Editor
Save/Load Playlist
Start SignApps Express
Create new playlist or start from existing
playlist
Add presentation from template
Edit presentation (add text, image, video,
widget or logo)
Edit schedule
Add more event schedule if needed
Add more presentation if needed
Export to player
Already
have
playlist?
Yes
No
Select template
Add more
presentation
Edit
presentation
Export to Player
Create new playlist
Select from existing playlist
Edit
Schedule
1 Tool bar
- File
- Language option
- Help information
2 Playlist name field and 3 Playlist create button
4 List of existing Playlists
Playlist preview and info
5 The associated players of
the playlist
6 Refresh button
7 Player name, IP, status
8 Adding player manually by
its IP
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1 Template
2 Available templates
Show all
templates
when no filter
is selected
Multiple filter
selection are
allowed
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1 Back to Main menu
2 Edit Playlist
Schedule
3 Save and export
4 Select export target
(player or USB)
5 Discard all changes
6 Editing zone
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Volume control
Screen off control
Switch presentations
Expand/Hide tool menu
Editing zone
Zoom options
Fit options
Change content
Confirm/Cancel change
Media list for this zone
Add more media files
Media information
• Thumbnail
• File name
• Options
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2 Existing events
Event information
• Time slot
• Event Day/Date
• Event Type
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presentation to
current event
Enable event trigger
for devices
Existing
presentations in
current event
Presentation
thumbnail and
duration
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1 Name of the event
2 Event type (available when add new event)
3 Recurrence type
4 Day picker for weekly event
5 Time slot
6 Day picker for monthly event
7 Day picker for specific day event
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How-to Edit Playlist
Edit Presentation
Edit Schedule
Export Playlist
Double click a template to make your selection
Move mouse around the editing zone, editable
area will be highlighted
Click to start editing
Simply drag and drop media
from file explorer to the zone to
add media files (mp3 audio file
not supported)
Select a zone then expanding
the option panel
Use the button to add more
media to the zone
Use the button to
add special media to the
zone
Widget
A/V input
Tip: drag and drop media to
change the playback order
Focus (image only) and Fit
option can be configured from
editing zone directly
Playback duration and other
options can be configured from
Option dialog, to launch the
Option dialog:
double click on media item
click right mouse button and select
“Option..”
Tip : To select multiple
items, click the first item, press
and hold down the Ctrl key, and
then click the next item
Browse other media to
replace it
Zoom-in / out
(Tip: mouse wheel also works)
Drag to change image
focus
Confirm / Cancel
Configurable options:
Playback duration
Display Option:
Crop/Fit/Stretch
Add video files to a zone, a
video thumbnail will display
here
Display options :
Fit or Stretch
Double click the video to
preview the playback in
Windows application
Configurable options:
Display option: Fit /Stretch
Note: only 1 zone is
allowed to contain video
Stretch Fit
Add PowerPoint file to a
zone, a thumbnail will display
here
Choose to fit inside
the zone or stretch the
PowerPoint to the zone
Double click the file to edit in
PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint
2003/2007/2010/2013/2016
must be installed in same
computer
Configurable options:
Display option : Fit/Stretch
Unspecified slide duration :
duration for each slide
Click on LOGO icon to edit
LOGO (LOGO only
supported in limited
templates)
Zoom-in / out
(Tip: mouse wheel also works)
Drag to change LOGO focus
Configurable
options: N/A
Note: LOGO zone do not
support looping playback
Add widget to a zone, a widget
thumbnail will display here
Configurable options :
Widget Supported Options
Common
Options
Playback duration : seconds
Color: background color
foreColor: text color
Clock timeFormat : 12h/24h
Calendar timeFormat : 12h/24h
Align: right/center/left
RSS Urls: RSS URL
Writing direction: Right to Left/Left to
Right
Webpage URL: website URL
Proprie
Choose one of the empty
templates to use ticker
In the Tools panel, check Ticker to
enable it
Select a preferred ticker mode
from one of the options:
Personal text:
to display text content from a .txt file
Widget:
to display a widget in the ticker zone
(ex. RSS widget or custom widgets)
Configurable options for personal
text
Options Notes
File Path to the .txt file
Duration Playback duration in seconds
Size The text size of the ticker
Available options:
small/normal/large
Effect Transition effect of the ticker
Available options: Static: no transition effect between
lines
Crawl: ticker crawls from right to
left
Scroll: ticker scrolls up
Background
color
Select ticker zone background
color from color palette
Background
opacity
Level of transparency of the
ticker background
Text color Select text color from color
palette
After enabling the
ticker, you can:
Change the location of
the ticker to Bottom or
Top
Adding more .txt file or
widgets to the zone
Click a price to edit
Edit any text from pop
up message
Change any Text
Change any logo Change any images
Toggle Logo
display
Change color
theme in one click
Toggle
background
music
Note: background music only works with image or PowerPoint presentation. If presentation contains video, an information message will show up to ask user to remove video from presentation before adding background music
Click edit to open music
playlist menu to add/remove
background music
Appear when
more than 1
presentation
exist in same
schedule
Click Edit schedule to enter schedule editor
1 Click Add event schedule
2 Edit the event schedule
3 Select template
4 Edit the newly added presentation
1 Specify event name
2 Choose an event type ( available only
when add event)
Presentation
Screen off
3 Select recurrence type and the day
4 Select the playback period
All day
Specific time slot
Weekly
Check/uncheck the weekdays
Monthly
Enter days separated by comma
Or period connected by dash
Ex: 1,5,9,15-18 will play on 1st ,5th ,9th
,15th ,16th ,17th ,18th of each month
Specific day
Pick start day and end day from the
calendars
Default presentation is the initial
schedule which is defaulted to play
24/7.It has lowest priority, will be
surpass whenever there are
overlapping with other schedule.
As shown on diagram at the left,
specific day(s) event has the highest
priority of playback when schedules are
overlapping, Monthly schedule has 2nd
highest priority then it's weekly schedule.
Among same recurrence type, newly
added schedule takes higher priority (
e.g. Weekly 2 is the newly added
schedule )
1 Click Add presentation
2 Select template
3 Edit the newly added presentation
1 Right click a presentation and select
‘Duplicate to’
2 Select a destination:
- Current schedule
- An existing schedule
- New event schedule
1 Right click a schedule and select
‘Duplicate’ OR click duplicate button of a
schedule
2 Edit schedule of new event
3 Click OK to save new event
Save all the contents and playlists on drives. 1. Click ‘Save playlist’ from menu
2. Choose the destination
3. Tick the playlist which will be saved
4. Click save
Save all the contents and playlists on drives. 1. Click ‘Save playlist’ from menu
2. Choose the location of *.pls
3. Click save
1. Click ‘Load playlist’ from menu
2. Choose playlist file from drive
3. Show playlist loaded to destination
Next to export your task via USB or via network
Choose “Save and
export to USB”
Select a location to save
If the target player
device has a security password, please enter the password here.
Once save to USB successfully, there are files in USB drive:
SMIL folder
config.xml (Only if users set a password in last step)
And also can see another 2 files in SMIL folder:
media folder
index.smil
Insert the USB to target device and the system will run the SMIL
automatically.
Note: If system doesn’t run the SMIL, please check if there is a security password set
for the system.
Scan devices on your network or add them by typing their IPs
Select devices for export
After export, the selected players will be associated with this playlist
Note:
If a player is already associated with another playlist, it will show what `playlist being associated previously here
Export
status displays here
User can navigate away to continue work on other playlist Export status displays in main menu as well
After export, the players are associated with the playlist and will be listed under the playlist in the main menu
You can also assign player to playlist by dragging player and drop to playlist in the main menu
Associated
players