Geomant Wallboard

Welcome to the Geomant Wallboard knowledge base

Starting from version 1.11, the latest product information is available on Wallboard.info Knowledge Base site at https://docs.wallboard.us/.

Geomant will continue to offer direct help desk support for its clients and partners.

Geomant Wallboard 1.0 End of Support will be December 31, 2023.

Topics

For Beginners	System and Admin	For Content Editors
Players	Client management

For Beginners

• Video tutorials
  • Content editor
  • Device management
  • Loop editor
  • Player applications
  • Schedules
  • User interface
  • Advanced tutorials
    • Data sources
    • High level technical overview
    • Server/CMS

• How to presentations
  • Change interface language
  • Change password
  • Create a user
  • Enable two factor authentication
  • Reset forgotten password
  • Content request
  • First time login summary
  • Registering a new device

• Interface presentations
  • File manager
  • Home screen
  • Mobile interface
  • User settings
  • Quick filter folder
  • Alert rules and notification channels
  • Loop editor
  • Settings
    • About settings
    • Alerts menu
    • Cloud integration menu
    • Contents menu settings
    • Datasources menu
    • Downloads menu
    • Files menu
    • Install rules menu
    • Licenses menu
    • Logs menu
    • Messages menu
    • Screens menu
    • Users menu
    • Webhooks menu

• Troubleshooting
  • I can not login on the Editor interface
  • Client doesn't start automatically
  • Connection lost to the server
  • Contacting support team about a problem
  • The content on my device is lagging
  • The content on my device is not updated
  • I don't see my device online

System and Admin

• Administrator interfaces
  • About JDBC and how it is related to Wallboard
  • Administrator menu
  • Change application name in authenticator apps
  • Clients menu
  • Concurrent license limitation feature
  • Contents menu
  • Contents menu settings
  • Datasources menu (Administrator)
  • Flow menu
  • Invoicing menu
  • License menu (Administrator)
  • Log menu
  • Screens menu
  • Scripts menu - Custom Module Manager Interface Overview
  • Server nodes menu
  • Single Sign-On
  • System dashboard menu
  • System integrations menu
  • System settings menu
  • Templates menu
  • Unassigned screens menu
  • Users menu (Administrator)

• Server
  • Configuration
    • Active Directory authentication with LDAP
    • Google reCAPTHCA configuration
    • High availability solutions
    • How to create Google credentials
    • How to create Microsoft API credentials
    • Server configuration
    • SSO configuration options
    • Semi-whitelabel server configuration
  • Installation
    • Core install on Windows server
    • Installation without docker
    • Logging system installation
    • Monitoring systems installation
    • Other utility services installation
    • Plugin manager sub-systems installation guide
  • Maintenance
    • Server backup- restore guide
    • Update Linux guide
  • Other Server topics
    • Communication
    • Database
    • Database retention policy
    • Development API
    • DMS - Device manager Server
    • On-premise installation
    • Server backup
    • Server prerequisites
    • White Labeling

• NodeJS integration
  • API calls & response events
  • Creating your own NodeJs modules
  • Integrating NodeJs modules into the editor
  • Sample reports

• Change logs
  • JsCore application changes
    • JSCore v4
  • Android application changes
    • Android v4.0
    • Android v2.21.06
    • Android v3.0
  • Desktop Broadcaster changes
    • DBA v1.0
    • DBA v1.1
  • Samsung application changes
    • Samsung v3.2
    • Samsung v3.4
  • Server application changes
    • System mods in v2.9
    • System mods in v2.10
    • System mods in v2.11
  • Windows application changes
    • Windows v3.0
    • Windows v3.1

• General Articles
  • Detailed google scope justification
  • Form data collecting to google spreadsheet
  • Google application approval consent template
  • How to manage your table widget data (edit, delete, insert) and upload images
  • Previewing contents with custom scripts
  • Supported browsers
  • System capabilities and limitations

For Content Editors

• Content editor interface
  • Content Page Settings
  • Content Properties
  • Content synchronization
  • Content Layers
  • Content Page properties
  • How to use our editor
  • Master Page and Overlay Page
  • Pages Playlist and Properties
  • Slide Transition
  • Stretch Content
  • Undo & Redo
  • Basic widgets
    • Clock widget
    • Custom widget
    • Image widget
    • Scroll widget
    • Shape widget
    • Text widget
    • Video widget
    • Weather widget
  • Media widgets
    • Adobe widget
    • Google calendar widget
    • Carousel widget
    • Content widget
    • Contents widget
    • Cooltext widget
    • Facebook widget
    • Gallery widget
    • Google doc widget
    • Media widget
    • Pieces widget
    • QR Code widget
    • Stream widget
    • Twitter widget
    • Videos widget
    • YouTube widget
  • Dynamic charts widgets
    • Area chart widget
    • Bar chart widget
    • Column chart widget
    • Gauge widget
    • Line chart widget
    • Meter widget
    • Pie chart widget
    • PowerBI widget
    • Pyramid chart widget
    • Table widget
  • Interaction widgets
    • Checkbox Widget
    • Data Summary Widget
    • Input Widget
    • Radio Button Widget
    • Reset Widget
    • Stopper Widget
    • Submit Widget
  • Custom widgets
    • What are custom widgets?

• General knowledge
  • Take a look at the highlights from our Contents
  • Content scheduler
  • Content templates
  • Crop and resize images
  • Custom resolution : stretch / extend
  • Preview content
  • Share your content
  • Stream samples
  • Supported image, video, audio formats
  • Using animations
  • Using colors
  • Using fonts & custom fonts
  • Using masks
  • Using size and position
  • Backup and restore content

• Advanced knowledge
  • Content analyzer
  • Dynamic page duration
  • How to use Power Automate with wallboard
  • How to implement chart.js custom widget into Wallboard
  • Making one content for multiple displays - Softmatrix
  • Embedding O365 and Google documents
  • Previewing contents with custom scripts
  • How to create Google Calendar or Microsoft Calendar datasource in Wallboard
  • How to create and connect an O365 shared calendar room resource to Wallboard
  • Meeting room solution prerequsities
  • How to setup the Meeting room solution
  • Wallboard - Linistry integration - content creation
  • Wallboard - Linistry integration - connector setup
  • Data sources
    • Calendar integration as a Datasource
    • Data binding
    • How to connect your spreadsheet to wallboard
    • How to send n8n data to wallboard
    • Namedays datasource
    • Use-case - complex data integration birthday sample
    • Use-case - Internal datasource change via webhook event
    • Use-case - Simple birthday datasource example 1
    • Use-case - Simple birthday datasource example 2
    • How to manage your table widget data (edit, delete, insert) and upload images
    • Datasource mappers
  • Use-cases
    • How to upload your data from input fields to internal datasource
    • How to communicate between two device with webhooks
    • Use-case - Only activate next button if at least one of several checkboxes is checked
    • Custom scripts and call API actions

• Events & Actions
  • Widget:Touch actions
  • Content:Page change events
  • Sent fields
  • Content:Time based events
  • Webhooks
  • Content:External events
  • Action types:Internal datasource actions
  • Action types:Navigation
  • Action types:Other
  • Action types:Output
  • Action types:Widget
  • Webhook action types

Players

• General Information
  • About LOG files
  • Automatic device reboot
  • Client application summary
  • Client comparison chart
  • Device network requirements
  • Managing screens
  • Monitor control
  • Updating devices remotely

• Android
  • About our Android client
  • Android demo mode
  • Android external player
  • Android secret menus
  • Android WebView replace
  • Content caching on Android
  • Generic user commands for Android devices
  • How to preconfigure Android application
  • How to repair webview replace fail
  • Installation on Android
  • LED control on signage tablets
  • Locking Android TV devices
  • Locking down Android devices
  • NTP time synchronization on Android
  • Qbic firmware update
  • Selecting Android player
  • Sony application install guide
  • Sony working hours and display control
  • Wallboard AI camera
  • Native Player

• Windows
  • About our Windows client
  • Content caching on Windows
  • Generic user commands for Windows devices
  • Installation on Windows
  • Locking down Windows
  • Windows features
  • Windows Kiosk mode
  • Windows requirements
  • Windows window modes
  • Advanced installation methods on Windows

• Desktop Broadcaster
  • About our Desktop Broadcaster app

• Samsung SSP
  • About our Samsung smart signage client
  • Generic user commands for Samsung SSP
  • Installation on Samsung SSP devices
  • Samsung SSP6 devices

• Browser signage
  • Displaying browser signage

Client management

• Cloud Integrations
  • Google Drive integration
  • OneDrive integration
  • SharePoint integration

• User and Team management
  • User roles
    • User Roles
  • Network System (formerly Subreseller System)
  • Teams
  • User Roles
  • White Label menu

• Statistics
  • CSV statistics
  • Analytics
  • Device analytics menu
  • Google analytics guide
  • How does licensing work
  • How to use custom reporting