What's New

Administrators now have the option to set a user's navigation to graphical. Use when the user has access to multiple zones. See Navigation Style

Some templates in Billboard can be used to post messages automatically to both digital signage (or tv) and twitter. This is a great way to increase the audience by targeting those who aren't near the playbacks.

See Twitter on Billboard

The Moneris Payment System is fully integraged into Billboard such that users can pay to create content automatically. No payment information is ever stored on Billboard servers - everything goes through Moneris.

Features:

• Monaris account link
• Price can be set on a template by template basis
• Initial price plus optional renewals price can be defined on a template by template basis
• Automatically send renewal reminder e.mail to user when their ad has expired.

See Moneris Payment System in Billboard

Administrators can create groups of members that share membership qualities, including:

• user types / permission levels
• navigation methods and template entry styles
• permissible keywords
• permissible magazines and templates

When a change is required the Administrator can modify the group settings rather than modifying each individual member of the group.

Groups can also be used to allow the general public to post messages quickly. A user can sign-up from the designated main page and immediately join a group and post messages according to that group's permissions.

See Billboard Member Groups

There is now the ability to define a template as ‘multi page’, where a group of pages are treated as one within the Billboard import form. One of the photo elements within the template can be designated as the ‘multi page’ photo. You can choose the number of page you create and the total duration of the sequence. On the template input form, there will be an image upload control for each of the pages in the sequence.

This feature is a quick method to create corporate training content, or real-estate listings with multiple photos of a property, or advertisements.

This feature, combined with the Moneris Payment feature and the new Voice-over feature, is very handy for high quality self-service advertising.

See Multi-page Messages

Edit a Playback's title, add a Screen and manage the Playback's keywords, including adding new ones. See Edit Playbacks in Billboard

• Add new magazines to a zone.
• Change magazine priority using up/down and move to top/move to bottom arrows.
• Edit magazine properties by hovering and clicking the wrench icon.
• Edit the playlist by clicking on the magazine name
• Delete a magazine by hovering over it and clicking the X icon (see Edit Zones in Billboard)

• Edit all of the magazines modes, days of week, timeranges, date ranges
• Indicator of plug-ins applied to the magazine
• Directly edit the playlist
• Add ‘Extra Magazines’ to this primary magazine ( see description further down )
• View thumbnails available to this magazine

See Edit Magazines

Administrators may now delete or add keywords to playbacks directly in Billboard. See Keywords in Billboard

When the ShareURL plugin is enabled in Billboard and applied to templates, users posting a message with the template can select a URL to associate with the message that Audience.mobile will send to the users phone when they tap the NFC tag.

See ShareURL

When a Billboard template includes an image the template can bet set to include a crop tool so that the user can choose the part of the selected image to use in the message.

See Crop Images in Billboard

'Future Date' You can now set the stop date to be automatically populated with a date X days after the start date, or the Start Date to be X days before the stop date. (Edit Template > Edit Stop Date or Edit Start Date)

You can enter additional magazines for this message to be posted to. If the magazine is in the same zone, it will use the same template as the master post. If the magazine is in a different zone, it must have a template with the same name as the master template, and the same text / image tag names. See Edit Magazines

Change the name of the site from Billboard to a customized name. See Modify Site Name

Change the default banner/logo that appears at the top of every Billboard page. See Modify Billboard Banner/Logo

Administrators can enter custom Terms and Conditions information as well as Contact information. Both items are displayed on the homepages of all non trusted users. This is required for sites using e-commerce.

See Terms and Conditions and Contact Information