News Sender widget

Spot

Resolution

Specify the width and height of the spot in pixels. 

Spot duration

Set the spot duration to 0.

The playback duration is determined via Number of news and Display duration. The spot will stop on its own after displaying the news.

Background

Select to set a background color.

Click in the color selection box to select a color.

Data source

Enter the name of your data source.

To establish the connection, it must be identical to the description in the UDC data source.

Sync mode

Active

Select to enable sync mode.

In sync mode, the spot send news items to one or more News Receiver spots. You can use this functionality between widgets within an HTML Composer spot, across splits on a player, or across players.

Identifier

Specify an identifier to link a sender and one or more receivers.

The identifier must be identical in all spots.

Target IP

Specify a target IP to set up communication across players. 

Enter the IP addresses of the players on which the news items are displayed. Click Add new text to enter multiple IP addresses. You can add up to 100 players.  

Quit receiver

Select to stop receiver spots at the end of the sender spot.

Static content

Image

Click Add medium and select an image to display if there’s no UDC data.

Headline

Enter a headline for the static message that appears if there’s no UDC data.

Message text

Enter text for the static message that appears if there’s no UDC data.

Copyright text

Enter copyright text that appears if there’s no UDC data.

Playback settings

Behavior – no data

Select what happens in case of an error: 

• Quit spot

• Show static news

Number of news

Specify how many news entries from the UDC interface are displayed before the spot stops.    

Randomize

Select to show the news in random order.

Time settings

Animation duration

Specify the duration of the start, end, and transition animation.

If you enter 0, no animation is displayed.

Animation delay

Specify how long to delay animations in seconds. 

Display duration

Specify how long each news item is displayed, excluding animations and idle times.

Pause between news

Specify how much time passes between the news items.

Note that this value is ignored if you use Crossfade transition.

Animations

Transition

Select a style for the transitions between news items:

• None: seamless transition without animation.

• Fade: the previous news item fades out and the next news item fades in. Depends on Animation duration and Pause between news.

• Staggered: fade including a delay. Depends on Animation duration, Pause between the news, and Animation delay.

• Crossfade: smooth fading in and out transition. Depends on Animation duration.

No outro delay

Select to ignore Animation delay when the spot stops and simultaneously fade out all elements. 

Appearance > Background

Background color enabled

Select to set a background color for the spot.

Background color

Select a background color for the spot.

Background image enabled

Select to enable background image.

If you have a background image, the background color is not displayed.

Background image

Click Add medium and select a background image.

Appearance > Layout

Arrangement

Select a layout for the news items: 

• (Image - Headline) | Message

• Headline | (Image - Message)

• Image - ( Headline | Message)

• (Headline - Image) | Message

• Headline | Message * Image as background

• Headline | Message * No image

• Image | Headline | Message

• Image

• Headline

• Message

• Fotocredit

The symbols have the following effects:

• - elements are arranged next to each other

• () element grouping

• | next row

• * additional options

Merge text

Select to display the headline and news text in succession flowing around the image.

Note that vertical text alignment is ignored if you enable this option.

Layout padding

Specify padding between the element (image, news text, headline) and the edge of the layout.

Appearance > Image

Image size

Select how to scale the image:

• Cover layout cell: the image completely covers the layout cell, some parts of the image may be cut off. 

• Show complete image: the image is displayed entirely. 

Appearance > Headline

Style

Style the headline using font, color, size and more options.

Text shadow

Select to display the headline with a shadow. 

Vertical text alignment

Select the vertical alignment of the text: 

• Top

• Middle

• Bottom

Max. length

Specify the maximum length of the text.

If the text exceeds the length, it’s truncated with an ellipsis (…).

Appearance > Content

Style

Style the headline using font, color, size and more options.

Text shadow

Select to display the headline with a shadow.

Vertical text alignment

Select the vertical alignment of the text:

• Top

• Middle

• Bottom

Max. length

Specify the maximum length of the text.

If the text exceeds the length, it’s truncated with an ellipsis (…).

Appearance > Copyright

Show copyright

Select to display copyright text.

Show copyright in picture

Select to display copyright text in the image.

Style

Style the headline using font, color, size and more options.

Text shadow

Select to display the headline with a shadow.

Max. length

Specify the maximum length of the text.

If the text exceeds the length, it’s truncated with an ellipsis (…).

Additional text

Enter additional text.