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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

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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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1 Add event schedule

2 Existing events

Event information

• Time slot

• Event Day/Date

• Event Type

1Add new

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