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It's a brand new year, which means brand new features for you. We've got lots planned for 2023, but for our first release, get a taste of our LinkedIn Widget, easier User Management for Admins, and our incredibly useful Secondary WiFi feature.
Dynamically display the latest LinkedIn posts from your company’s LinkedIn account. Share corporate news, community events, or any other content with your colleagues that offers insights and increases employee engagement with your company.
Account Admins on Enterprise Plans, get into cheerleading mode because your signaging life just got much, much easier. You can now delegate User Management responsibilities to someone at Workspace level. This means that by assigning the role of Workspace Admin to users, they can then add, edit and delete users who belong to their Workspace. In addition, you will now have an enriched User Management list view with more valuable data and filters.
Read more in our release notes.
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Account Admins are now able to see more useful details about their users, including their first and last name, date added, their Primary Workspace, as well as the role that each user has in Workspaces. In addition, two new filters have been added in order to filter users based on their Primary Workspace and their Workspace access.
Media & Widget forms have been fully revamped so that you can have a better user experience. You’ll benefit from better visualization and see new information regarding each media and widget item.
Yodeck Portal fully translated into French – Bienvenue! The Yodeck Portal is now fully translated into French so that French-speaking Yodeck users from across the globe can have a native experience in the platform.
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For more information read our January Release Notes.
Welcome our new TV Source Widget, which can totally enrich your signage content. It makes it super easy to show live TV and then show your digital signage content. Crucially, it lets you automatically switch from one HDMI source, your media player, to another, such as your live TV or any other source. Therefore, it’s especially helpful if you have a bar for instance, and you want to schedule a set period of time for digital signage content such as ads and promotions, and then switch to live or cable TV for sports, then back to digital signage. Furthermore, you don’t need any additional device or cable to do this, just select the HDMI source inside the widget.
Also, keep in mind that you can include live TV as part of a screen layout, by using our Video Input feature, which you’ll find as an option in the 'Video' media tab. So essentially you can have one part of the layout display content from live or cable TV or a web cam, and then add digital signage components around it, such as weather and news widgets or your own signage ads and promos. Also, you’ll still see the subtitles or captions included in your live TV programs. However, you will need a USB video capture device to plug into your Yodeck Raspberry Pi media player in order to add live TV or web cam content in screen layouts.
We have upgraded our Yodeck Player playback engine for the 4K videos, so that when one 4K video switches to another 4K video, it’s now seamless. However, you’ll need at least a 2GB Raspberry Pi Player to experience gapless 4K video transitions, and don’t forget to enable the 4K video option from your account settings.
After being tested and used from many customers in production without any issue, we can now confidently move BrightSign out of Beta. The engineering still works in optimizing things like the ticker and the video playback but the quality of Yodeck for BrightSign is already pretty high.
Lastly, check out these helpful tips and maximize your sales potential using your signage screens during Black Friday and Cyber Monday madness.
You guys asked for a sleek new look for the RSS widget, and voila. We unveiled it in time so you can give your news feeds – and your screens – a fresh new summer style. Of course, BBC, CNN, ESPN, Al Jazeera and Google News widgets are now also equally chic and sophisticated. So go ahead and watch them spruce up your screens.
Also, we added a host of new customization options. For instance, you can select the text font and color, and split your screen between news photos and items. Similarly, you can display just the news item without a photo and set how long each news item will display. Added bonus? If the news item exceeds the character limit, you can make it scroll now. Get creative, and make your news feeds look exactly how you want them to.
Larger organizations with lots of content across many locations will love this feature. Instead of creating different Playlists for each screen so as to tailor content per screen, you can now filter and customize content for each screen using media tags.
Got a screen in Los Angeles and one in Tokyo? Most likely each needs to display content that connects with different viewers and showcases different offers. So, now all you have to do is create one main Playlist for all screens and locations and then select different media tags to filter the content for each screen. It cuts down content creation time, and helps you automate the whole content selection and updating process.
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Our RSS Widget had been moping for a makeover, so we gave it the all-star treatment with a bold new style we think will give you that wow factor you all want. You’ll also find it much more user-friendly with lots of customization options so you can get your news feeds looking exactly like you want them to on your screens. For example, you can now choose the text font and color, and have half a screen with the news photo and the other half with the actual news item. Similarly, you can choose to display news without an image, and also set the display time of each news item. Additionally, you can choose to make the content scroll if it exceeds the character limit for news items in feeds. And, just to add a touch more style, you can display RSS feeds in either horizontal or vertical views. All this means your favorite news widgets got the same love lavished on them, as the RSS widget. So go ahead and get those BBC, CNN, ESPN, Al Jazeera and Google news widgets rolling down the news runway with their brand new looks.
Media Tag Filtering per Screen targets larger organizations with lots of content that might also change frequently, which then gets displayed on screens across locations. Specifically, it makes it easy to automatically tailor the type of content displayed on each screen, by using media tags. Most importantly, instead of creating a separate Playlist for a screen in London and another Playlist for a screen in Dubai, for example, users can create a main Playlist for all screens and locations, and then use media tags to filter the content that will display per screen. Therefore, you can automate your content update process by updating one major Playlist instead of many individual ones. Also, we included a number of logic choices, with explanations, inside the Portal, to make it easier for you to select and filter the exact combinations of content you want for each screen.
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Bugs fixed
Happy New Year Yodeckers! We're back and raring to go! Our New Year's resolution? To give you tons of new features that make your screens soar to new levels of success. And we hope we're off to a flying start with a brand new look for our List views! Also, our new Birthday Widget just might get the party started. And check out our cool and creative PosterMyWall Widget. Both provide you with impressive and engaging content for your screens, and they're also super easy to use.
Have you seen the new redesign for our List views? It looks absolutely fabulous, if we do say so ourselves. Of course, beauty isn't skin deep, so we made sure they also got great new functionalities. And we think you'll love how much smoother managing your screens and content will be.
Firstly, you can now see your files and folders in one view, in both row and grid mode. Specifically, in row view you can see your item details, while in grid view you can get an overview of more items in each category, at a glance. Most importantly, navigation got so much easier. Just click or double-click anywhere on the file to open it. Also, the entire List view experience is mobile-friendly too!
All these signage superpowers to help you with your daily tasks, with a super sleek look to boot! So please let us know what you think!
Nothing’s more heartwarming than when someone wishes you happy birthday out of the blue. With our new widget, you can make your team members feel just as valued on their special day. Plus, it’ll warm the cockles of your HR department’s heart, too, as it’s easy to use and fully automated!
All you have to do is upload a CSV file with everyone’s date of birth and you’ll automatically see a personalized message appear on your signage screens on their birthday, hassle-free. You can also switch things up using a number of customizations, such as font and color.
So go ahead and delight them as soon as they walk into the office!
When you really want to wow people with your screens, you need something extra special – great animation, cute graphics or a cool design. That’s where PosterMyWall swoops in to save the digital signage day.
If you subscribe to their service, you get access to a huge selection of templates for everything from menu boards to flyers. They also cover all the occasions and promotions you can imagine.
How do you get it on your Yodeck screens though? Just copy the link you’ll see on their platform, that gets created specifically for Yodeck. Then you paste it into our PosterMyWall widget and watch your screens shine.
Yodeckers, you spoke and we listened. The brand new Tableau widget now awaits in the Gallery, ready to display your tables and graphs on screen, and in fine form. It's our little stocking stuffer for all you data mavens out there.
And on that note, all of us here at Yodeck send all of you, your teams and loved ones the warmest of wishes this holiday season! May 2022 be healthy, happy and creative for us all!
You can now get your Tableau charts on your signage screens quickly, easily — and right in time for those end-of-year number-crunching sessions. Also, this service could help you visualize stats for metrics such as call center volumes, employee satisfaction and sales tracking. Added bonus? Setup works like our other dashboard widgets - no fuss, no muss. So go ahead and conquer those annual targets in digital signage style!
It's that time of year when your screens have to work overtime, displaying promos such as holiday sales and specials. Or perhaps you use them to get staff excited about office parties and events. Either way, our customizable, professionally - designed holiday templates help you get great-looking content up on screen quickly, easily and for free. Just go to our Layouts section - you'll find the right one to get you in the festive spirit. So this way you can wrap things up in two shakes of a reindeer's tail and head on home! Choose your templates!
As usual, we’ve been busy beavering away behind the scenes and polishing up a few other smaller things.
Check out our Release Notes, chock-full of improvements.