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Content Display Solution for SharePoint
The company
Catholic Cemeteries & Crematoria, which manages
cemeteries in Australia, contacted kalmstrom.com to get
help with management of image screens.
The cemeteries have big screens with pictures that are changed,
by default every week. The display on those screens should
be managed centrally.
We decided to build a SharePoint page that shows miniatures
of all the screens. This is a custom .aspx page, built with
TypeScript, and all image management can be handled here.
This solution has several benefits:
- Images for screens at all locations are managed
centrally, on a SharePoint page
- Images are uploaded to the applicable screen in
a way that users are familiar with.
- Multiple images can be uploaded at the same time
and displayed in a loop.
- Images can be removed and changed freely.
- Managers can change the default timeout for images.
- When no new image is uploaded and the earlier image
has timed out, the screen closes down - no error messages.
- Management is handled in a familiar environment.
- No separate login needed.
The solution is built on two SharePoint apps:
- A Screens list that specifies details for
images on each screen
- A Display Content library for uploaded images
A background application reads the data from SharePoint
and adds it to the actual screens based on the name of the
screen on the SharePoint page. That way, each screen gets
the correct image, with the specified orientation and resolution.
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