If you want to communicate with people through digital signage, you'll probably need words at some point, and words are represented nicely by text. Text blocks are where things really start to happen. Same with a video block, except it can only come from Carousel's Media. Either way, you get some picture-specific properties in the Picture section including if you want the picture to stretch to the block's dimensions or just fit without being stretched ( Maintain aspect ratio).
Picture blocks come in two flavors, depending on if you want the picture's source to be from Carousel's Media or downloaded from a URL ( Web Picture) off the web (either by entering a URL or for dynamic bulletins, it could be a #field# that contains a dynamic URL).
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There's nothing weird about these basic properties, so feel free to set them to however you feel shows off your artistic side. All blocks have a basic set of properties for configuring where they are drawn ( Size and Position), their background color, outline, et c. But to do anything useful, the next step is to select a block.īlocks can be simple shapes (rectangle or ellipse), hold a picture, show a video or display text. You can also reorder blocks using the grippy handle to affect the order in which they are drawn, as blocks towards the front may obscure blocks behind them. There are two bulletin-level sections at the top of the accordion that allow you to select the background, select (either by using the Blocks menu or clicking where the block is on the preview) or create a block. The first step in this journey is to be familiar with the layout editor. This article assumes you want to go past the easy stuff and dig into laying out new templates or really digging into the guts of dynamic bulletin rendering. If that's what you're interested in, this article is not for you. For this, when making a bulletin, you can enter the layout editor, select a block and fumble through the accordion to find the property for Font or Text Color and change it.
You can even venture into the layout editor and tweak things on a template such as changing the font or text color. You can use Carousel without ever needing to touch the layout editor by using ready-made templates to create content.