How to set Emergency Alert or Custom Events

How to set Emergency Alert or Custom Events

You can use our software events to trigger emergency alerts like fire hazards in a building or code blue in Hospitals.

Step-1: 

Create a campaign with one regular timeline that plays all the time and multiple timelines based on how many alerts you will configure.
In our case, we will be using 6 emergency alerts. 

Note: Make sure your software user has Alerts station privileges set. (Contact E Display for additional privileges)



Step-2:

Click on Sequence and delete all the alert timelines so they don't play on their sequence turn and should only play when alerted. Make sure to just keep the regular timeline in the sequence.

 


Step-3:

Upload the resources that you would like to play on the specific Alert e.g. An MP4 Fire alert animation. You can also create scenes for individual alerts.

 


Step-4:

Assign resources or scenes to your Alert timeline channels.

 

Step-5:

Click Campaign -> Click Events Tab -> Click Event Option for adding Events for all alerts. 
Click the + sign and use the below format to add an Alert event action: 

from: fire
Command: Select Timeline      Fire     Manually Resume

* fire is the name of the event we will use later in our javascript file.
*Command is set to select the Fire timeline when the fire event is triggered and continues to play until the timeline is manually resumed by our Resume event.

Click the + sign and use below format to add a Resume event action:

from: normal
Command: Resume presentation

* normal is the name of the event we will use later in our javascript file.
*Command is set to resume presentation i.e. in sequence mode set to play your day to day timeline. 



Step-6:

Publish campaign to your stations.




Step-7:

Create the Alert Javascript file. You can download and modify the sample script from the following link: https://edisplay.egnyte.com/dl/ApeeYANzg7

You can either use this HTML file locally from a computer connected to the internet or host it on your website for central access to enable multiple staff for triggering events. You can also password protect the HTML page on your website.  




Step-8:

Test your events by launching the HTML file in your web browser.