Visual paging

The Visual paging tool is tied to the Simpleway voice module. This tool allows you to visualize audio messages on your displays so that passengers can hear the message from the amplifiers and at the same time see the message transcript on displays with a pre-configured visual paging element.

To see and hear the same announcement from amplifiers and displays, they must be selected in the zones in which the announcement is played. This means that you must select zones that include both audio device outputs and display configurations before playing the announcement. Templates with a visual paging component must be assigned to these displays, as described below.

To setup visual paging on your displays, you need to complete the following steps:

In the Zones tab:

• Group display configurations into zone see tutorials: Connect and configure DISPLAYS and Zoning your PA and display devices).

In the Templates tab:

• Create the Visual paging component in the content template, see below tutorial steps.

In the Displays tab:

• Assign the content template to displays, see tutorial Assign a Simpleway provided TEMPLATE to a display

This tutorial will show you how to create the Visual paging component in the previously created FLIGHT LIST template which then can be assigned to displays.

TUTORIAL STEPS:

A) Templates tab Open the Templates tab. Select your FLIGHT LIST template (or any other template to place the Visual paging component).
B) Visual paging widget Click the Widgets button and select the Visual paging option. Click the canvas to place the selected visual paging widget.
C) Click the Visual Paging Editor button on the sidebar. A Components window opens.
D) Create a New component Click the New component button. A New component pop-up window opens.  Enter the name of the component. Click the Save button. Component design mode opens.
E) Insert the Visual paging text Click the Text button and select the Visual paging text option. Place the element on the canvas.
F) Stylize your visual paging text Change the size and position of the visual paging text element to suit your needs. Customize the font style.
G) Setup the visual effects Configure the visual effects as required.  Click the Save button. The visual effects section offers two modes: Split content on overflow - when the visual paging text overflows the set line width, it will split into multiple lines as long as there is enough space for those new lines, determined by the height of the visual paging text element and the font size. Scroll content on once on overflow - the visual paging text will scroll at a specified speed from right to left if it exceeds the set line width limits.
H) Select the earlier created component in the Components window.
I) Reposition the Visual paging component to match your requirements. Save & Publish the template when you are done.
J) You may now assign the template to your display, see tutorial Assign CONTENT TEMPLATE to a display
K) Start to play an announcement with visual component from the Ad hoc announcements tab, see tutorials: Ad hoc announcements - Call forward with visual Ad hoc announcements - Text to xpeech with visual Ad hoc announcements - Visual only You will see on your displays with assigned templates in the same zone the transcript of your announcement which is played in the same audio zones.