Using Random Screens In Your Events
RightBooth allows you to include additonal screens in your event that will be displayed at random each time the event is used. This article explains how.
The Scenario
You have 4 sponsors of your system and you would like to promote each one to your users by showing a promotion screen for one of the sponsors every time the event is used.
In our example, the event has been designed for only recording videos, so the Screen list now looks like this...
The Scenario
You have 4 sponsors of your system and you would like to promote each one to your users by showing a promotion screen for one of the sponsors every time the event is used.
- In the Screen Editor, show the 'Add Items' toolbox.
- Click the 'Screen' button to add a new screen to your event.
- Name the new screen: 'Sponsor'
- Move the new screen down the screen list so that it is placed below the Start screen.
In our example, the event has been designed for only recording videos, so the Screen list now looks like this...
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Start
Sponsor Get ready Countdown Record video Thank you __________ Busy Error Finished |
- Design the Sponsor screen to suit the requirements of your first sponsor.
- Now add three more screens to your event. Name them Sponsor#2, Sponsor#3 and Sponsor#4
- Design these new screens to suit the requirements of your other sponsors.
If you look at the screen list in the Screen Editor you will notice a Separator line which appears below the 'Thank you' screen. This line represents the division between screens that will form part of the event screen sequence (above the line) and those that will only appear in certain circumstances (below the line) such as the Error screen which will only be displayed in certain error conditions.
- Move the three new screens so that they are positioned below the Separator line as follows:
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Start
Sponsor Get ready Countdown Record video Thank you __________ Sponsor#2 Sponsor#3 Sponsor#4 Busy Error Finished |
Now each time the event starts playing, RightBooth will randomly select one of the four Sponsor screens and show it after the Start screen.
This all works because:
You can use this naming feature in more than one place in the screen list.
Here we show a random Sponsor screen after the Start screen, then another random Sponsor screen before the Thank you screen:
This all works because:
- the four screens all start with the same name: Sponsor
- the additional Sponsor screens also have the ’#’ character included immediately after the name,
- the additional Sponsor screens are placed below the separator line.
You can use this naming feature in more than one place in the screen list.
Here we show a random Sponsor screen after the Start screen, then another random Sponsor screen before the Thank you screen:
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Start
Sponsor Get ready Countdown Record video Sponsor Thank you ________ Sponsor#2 Sponsor#3 Sponsor#4 Busy Error Finished |
And finally here is another example where we use two sets of random screens, one set for the random Sponsor and one set to show a random message after the user has recorded their video:
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Start
Sponsor Get ready Countdown Record video Message Thank you ________ Sponsor#2 Sponsor#3 Sponsor#4 Message#Hi Message#18 Message#Boo Busy Error Finished |
Points to note
- You can only create random screens from your own user defined screens, and not from any of the predefined screens.
- When naming your random screens you can use any character(s) after the ‘#’ character (as shown in the last example above).
