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Send A Picture

The Send-a-picture component allows viewers to interact with digital signage screens by sending pictures to an email address displayed on the screen. The pictures will then be displayed on the screen. Administrators can choose to have pictures moderated before displaying or automatically displayed. They can also set display duration, default images/text, and email account details for receiving pictures.

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Send-a-picture premium component This innovation give viewers an opportunity to interact with your digital signage screens in a fast and easy fashion Just send a picture at the email address mentioned on the signage screen and it will be shown right there. That is it! Fast and easy  This component makes it easier to catch the eyes and make them glued for a longer duration Send-a-picture is a premium component which is available to InfoSignz PRO users only
Create Send-a-picture Screen Drag and drop Send-a-picture component on canvas
Create Send-a-picture Screen continued… Subject code - Viewers will send picture in an email with a subject code you enter in subject code field as shown in the figure below
Create Send-a-picture Screen continued… Show email text – You can check this option (field 1 in the figure) if you want to show the text along with picture sent by the viewer in the email Use moderation - If you want the pictures sent to be approved by a moderator before they appear on your signage screens, check the option in field 2. You will then see a link Email Moderator.. as shown in the figure. From here you can approve pictures
Create Send-a-picture Screen continued… Click on advanced properties button in properties tab. This will open the advanced properties window. From here you would need to configure the Send-a-picture component Email text properties – Select the font style for the text which would appear in Send-a-picture component
Create Send-a-picture Screen continued… Email account settings – Enter the email account settings where you want viewers to send the pictures Mail server - Enter the POP3 incoming mail server of the email service provider. Server port – Enter the incoming mail server port. Server port 995 is generally used for SSL mail servers and 110 for non-SSL ones. Display for – Enter the duration for which you wish to display the pictures on screen
Create Send-a-picture Screen continued… Test connection – After entering all the settings click on test connection button to validate the connection to the mail server. If the connection is not established, please verify the details entered Please go to mail servers link to know the mail server addresses of commonly used email services Make sure you have enabled the POP3 support in the email account entered
Create Send-a-picture Screen continued… Default image – Select a default image from the images you have uploaded. This image would appear on your signage screen when there is no other image to show. For example, you can upload an image which shows the details where you want the viewers to send the emails
Create Send-a-picture Screen continued… Default text – Like default image, the text you enter here would be shown on signage screen when there is no email to show. For example, Please send a picture at [email_address] with subject code Cafe Screen and the picture will be shown right here! Display after – If you want the default image/text to be shown after some specific number of emails shown on the signage screen, you can do it from here
Email Moderator Below is the image of how the email moderator page would look like Select subject code – Emails would be filtered by the subject code given in the screen. Select the subject code from here to approve the emails Attachment – Move the mouse over the image to view the thumbnail
Email Moderator View email – Click on view email envelop to view the email sent by the viewer of your signage screen Approve - Click on approve button to show the picture on the signage screen Disapprove – Click on disapprove to remove the picture from the queue
Play location with Send-a-picture Now publish this screen and assign it to the location where your signage screen is placed Considering the example mentioned in the one of the previous slides, if a viewer will send a picture at [email_address] with subject code as Cafe Screen, this picture would list in the email moderator. Once approved by the moderator the picture would appear on the signage screen If you have not selected the use moderation option the picture would appear on the signage screen right away
Points to remember We support jpg, jpeg, png and gif image formats only Please make sure that the pictures are sent in the attachment Please make sure that you do not run the same screen at more than one location To provide technical stability we have not made Send-a-picture to run in preview. The images sent will not appear in preview Images with names containing special characters might not be shown on the screen
We welcome your feedback I hope this presentation would help you to understand the Send-a-picture component in InfoSignz PRO version If you have any suggestions or queries, please write to us at [email_address] You can call us at +1 908 510 9739 in the USA +91 99676 39703 in India