OTHER LAYOUT TEMPLATES
Laqorr offers several layout options with a number of built-in templates. If you need a different layout you can create your own (see HOW TO CREATE A SCREEN LAYOUT).
Click EDIT / CHANGE in a Group to see those already available such as widescreen (for 1×2 screen configuration) or video walls (2×2 or 3×3 screen configuration).
In some cases you’ll need to apply a playlist to each portion of the screen that the template has made available. This is done by adding a playlist to each Video Feed – in this example Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left and Bottom Right.
You can add a number of Playlists, and day-part them if you wish. See HOW TO ASSIGN A PLAYLIST and HOW TO DAY-PART PLAYLISTS for more details.
The same principles apply to other multi-screen layouts such as Side By Side or Two Ticker Three Split Screen.
The most popular layouts can be amended.
VIDEO WITH TICKER LAYOUT
This creates a ticker to run along the bottom of the screen. In the Group, click EDIT / CHANGE and select Video With Ticker. You’ll notice a new Feed tab – Ticker.
First you still need to apply playlists to the Video tab.
Now click on TICKER. In the Mode box, you have two choices: Static Text or RSS Feed.
STATIC TEXT
Whatever you write in the text box will appear in your ticker on screen.
Choose the text colour from the drop down menu. You can utilise the same background colour as the screen layout, or change it by selecting a new colour from the drop down menu.
You can choose an Icon or logo to appear in-between items of text in the ticker feed. Choose one from the drop down menu.
To load an icon, first navigate to COMPANY, click on the ADD button beside Icon. You can also add extra fonts for your ticker feed in this space: see how to UPDATE COMPANY LOGO AND BRANDING ASSETS
There is a specific format to activate an Icon in-between items of text. The Icon appears instead of – [*] – when using the following layout:
[These are the words in my ticker][*][These are more words in my ticker][*][And here are more words][*]
Choose a Speed for the ticker (0 is the slowest). You can also change the Font by choosing something from the drop down menu, and you can change its size and make the text bold or italic in this space as well.
RSS FEED
If you want to run an RSS feed from a known and trusted source as your ticker, enter the URL in the RSS URL window. The same functionality to change background, font, speed, size etc is available.
CLOCK LAYOUT
If you’ve added a Clock to a Screen Layout, you’ll be able to personalise this in the Group which is using that Layout.
Click EDIT then navigate to the Clock Feed tab. Here you’ll find a number of settings which you can change to bring the clock in line with your brand, including:
- Format – use a combination of MMMM D h:mma to display date time
- Alignment – left / middle / right
- Background and Foreground (font) colour
- Fonts – choose from those available.
For more options, see how to UPDATE COMPANY LOGO AND BRANDING ASSETS - Padding – to contain the text within the surrounding box
WEB PAGE LAYOUT
Laqorr can also utilise web content as a source to show content on screen. Choose WEB LAYOUT from the Layout options, and enter a URL in the field. You can select how often Laqorr revisits the page to refresh content.
Please note, this function displays a web browser, and is not interactive – viewers can not click or engage with the web page content.
Nor is the content cached to the media player. A live connection is required at all times in order for the screen to display the web feed.
CONTENT GENERATORS
You can also use content generators like Google Slides that export a URL in this space. For instance, a series of images that you have created in Slides can be ‘published to the web’ as content. Copy the URL link in Slides and paste it into the URL field in Laqorr. See Google for more details about Google Slides and publishing to the web.
BACKGROUNDS
In this Layout window, as with all other Layout choices, there is an option to choose a background colour.
This determines what colour your screen will display in areas that your content doesn’t reach.
In a situation where the content resolution is smaller than the screen layout, ‘black bars’ will appear. This may be by design, and you can change what background colour you want to fill that ’empty’ space.
By default, the colour is black.
To change the colour, click on the Background button in Layout then:
- Click within the colour chart
- Or move the slider
- Or enter a HEX code to choose your colour
- Or type in a web colour such as Red or Cyan
Then click APPLY.
