Audience.billboard
Audience.billboard is a user interface for remote access to playbacks. Authorized users create and update content remotely over the internet or intranet using their billboard account. In a multi-user system the designated billboard administrator creates user accounts with passwords and grants access to general or specific areas of content. Some user accounts can edit or approve content, some can modify the templates used to create content, and some can be limited to creating specific content.
The advantages of Audience.billboard are best highlighted by looking at an example of how billboard can be used.
Example Billboard System
A school board creates a system for all of its schools. All playbacks display the school board logo (WSB) and the date and time.
Each school’s playback displays its own school logo as well. The system is ready with multiple templates used to create messages in specific magazines. Once this system is in place, all content is created remotely using billboard.
In our example the billboard administrator creates a user account for each school. The administrator limits the kinds of messages users can post by selecting the magazines and templates they can use to create messages. The picture below displays the following:
- School members can create three types of messages, and those messages play at their local school.
- Someone at the school board creates messages that are shared amongst all schools or a subset of schools.
How does the Administrator limit the kinds of messages a member can create?When creating the school member account the Administrator finds that school’s local magazine and then gives access to some or all of that magazine’s templates. In our example the local magazine is called “Anderson Video”.
When the Anderson High School user logs into billboard and selects “Post a Message” the member has access to just those three templates.
Each school’s account is limited in this way.
What if the school user needs to post a different type of message?If the school member would like to post a different kind of message, a video of the most recent track and field awards ceremony for example, she could forward the video to the billboard administrator at the school board who can then post it for her, or the administrator could modify the school account to include an additional template for posting videos.
Where do the messages play?Content created by the school displays exclusively on the school playback. Only the school board can create system-wide content (which they may do to announce bus cancelations or Parent Teacher days).
How to display a message that appears in multiple locations?Members requiring system wide access are given access to locations (‘keywords’) where they can post messages. Each school in the system is a location. Permission is granted to access all locations or a subset of them. The user could then create messages and decide where those messages should play (just one high school, all of them, just the elementary schools, or any other combination) when the template used includes the location check boxes. The Administrator grants access to locations when creating the member account.
Here Julie, a school board employee, is granted access to all the schools (high schools and primary schools).
Julie is also granted access to specific templates.
It is when Julie post a message that she will see the option to select where the message will be displayed, because the template she uses includes the location (‘keywords’) field.
Julie’s message will display at the Pringle and Thortnon Primary School locations but not the high schools.