You can display your Microsoft Office 365 documents, spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations on TV screens in your office by using the “embed” feature and the VuePilot IFrame app. By using the IFrame app and not manually uploading a copy of the document to our servers we can display a real time version of your documents […]
Software
Logging Into Websites That Require Authentication
There is no standard way to automatically login with credentials to a website. Quite simply, it’s complicated. Whilst it is possible to automatically fill in a username and password field, then submit, there are many variables involved. For example, is the input box named “username” or “user_name” or maybe “email”? Are you redirected to a […]
Using The Smart Page App
The smart page app allows for advanced page display controls by using JavaScript to interact with the page content for completely custom functionality. In other words, the Smart Page app allows you to run simply snippets of JavaScript on any page to perform any sort of interaction you may require. The Smart Page app is […]
Using The Scheduler
The VuePilot scheduler allows you to control when particular content and pages within your rotations are to be displayed. The scheduler allows you to perform specific time scheduling operations, such as Displaying content only after or before a particular date Displaying content only after or before particular times of the day Displaying content only on […]
Setting Zoom Levels For Rotation Pages
You may wish to change the default zoom level for certain pages in your rotation, say for example to zoom out and fit an entire dashboard on the screen or to zoom in and remove excessive empty backgrounds. This is easily done with VuePilot by using your keyboard and the preview function. Here’s how From […]
Using VuePilot Without An Internet Connection
The VuePilot player software will work whilst offline however the level of functionality available will depend on if you’re using the product partially offline or completely offline. We classify “offline” as being either “partially offline” which is the case when the the machine is generally connected to the internet, however it may have been disconnected […]
Transferring Licenses To Another Machine
When you activate a license on a new machine an encrypted license file is generated and stored on the file system which identifies this specific machine with our servers and validates you are an active customer. You can easily move your licenses to other machines however by simply deactivating the license and reactivating it on […]
Upgrading The Software
For Releases 2.12 and up The software will automatically check for newer releases when it starts up, you will see a small notification in the sidebar informing you a new version is ready to be installed, you can either click the button to restart the software which will reload with the latest version, or you […]