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Simple File Networking allows you to distribute presentations to your BrightSign players using a web server. To use this publishing method, players must be set up for Simple File Networking with the correct URL for web folder.

1. In BrightAuthor, save the presentation(s) you want to publish by clicking File > Save… As
2. Click the Publish tab.
3. Select the Simple File Network option(above the Calendar).
4. Choose whether you want to publish Presentations or BrightWall Presentations.
5. Under Presentations, click Browse to navigate to and select the folder where your presentations are stored.

Adding Presentations to Your Schedule

Follow these steps to add presentations to the player schedule:

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• • Range of recurrence: Use this option to limit the recurrence of the scheduled presentation.
  • Start: Specify the start date of the scheduled recurrence. This date defaults to the currently selected date in the schedule.
  • End: Select No end to have the presentation recur indefinitely, or select End by and specify the end date of the scheduled recurrence.

Schedule Interrupts

You can create a day-parted schedule by scheduling presentations in separate time slots of a single day (or a set of recurring days). Later on, you may need to schedule a new presentation in an occupied time slot. This is where schedule interrupts are useful.

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• Keep existing events, cancel new event: Cancels the new schedule presentation action.
• Keep existing events, adjust new event: Opens the Schedule Presentation window, allowing you to schedule the new presentation in an empty time slot. If you schedule the presentation in an occupied time slot, the Schedule Conflict window will appear again.
• Remove existing events, use new event: Completely removes the presentation currently occupying the time slot.
• Interrupt existing events with new event: Schedules an interrupt in the presentation currently occupying the time slot. The date field will be split into two columns: The left column shows the primary scheduled presentation in blue; the right column shows the interrupting presentation in green. Primary scheduled presentations can be interrupted with multiple presentations, but interrupting presentations cannot overlap with each other.

Debugging

Under Debugging, you may optionally enable the following:

• Enable serial debugging: The autorun script will output debugging information related to the presentation to the RS-232 serial port (as well as over Telnet and SSH if these features are enabled).
• Enable system log debugging: The autorun script will output debugging information related to the presentation to the Log tab in the Diagnostic Web Server.

Simple File Networking Parameters

If you wish to reconfigure some of the device parameters, click the Set Parameters button. These changes will only affect players that receive the presentation schedule.

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• Remote snapshot every [ ] minutes: Specify how often the player should take a snapshot of the presentation display.
• Save up to [ ] images (1 - 100) on local storage: Specify how many JPEG snapshot images can be stored on the local storage of the player.
• JPEG quality level [ ] (0 - 100): Specify the quality level (and thus the file size) of each image file.
• Display snapshots in portrait mode: Check this box to have the player rotate the snapshots to portrait mode before saving and uploading them.

Firmware Updates

Click Specify Firmware Update to include a firmware update file with the published schedule. In the Firmware Update window, locate the section corresponding to your BrightSign model and select one of the following:

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• Standard: The firmware update is applied, the player reboots, and the .bsfw update file deletes itself from the local storage.
• Different: The update will only be applied if the version of the .bsfw update file does not match the current firmware version of the player. The file is not deleted after the update process is completed.
• Newer: The update will only be applied if the version of the .bsfw update file is newer than the current firmware version of the player. The file is not deleted after the update process is completed.
• Save: The firmware update is applied, but the .bsfw update file is not deleted. The device will only reboot once the storage device containing the update file is removed.

Publishing the Scheduled Presentation(s)

Under Publish to, click Browse to navigate to and select the location where you want to store the files.

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