External Content Management Configuration - Opticon ESL Server Manual

The various SQL tables will be automatically created.
After that, change back the 'Database format' to 'CSV' and press 'Apply' again to finish the
configuration.
7.5.

External content management configuration

When using the external content management solution the 3
handles the generation of the images and the linking of products to ESLs.
The ESL server application monitors an input folder for new images and distributes them to the
corresponding base stations / ESLs.
The only main database configurations for this set-up in the ESL server are the 'Input' and
'Output' folder (select CSV-database format). The other configurations will be ignored.
If the 'Output' folder already contains the files 'dbase.csv' or 'linked.csv' then these files should be
removed, so the system won't use them as product or link database
Optionally, status information can be logged into a SQL database using the same configuration as
described in chapter 7.4
If desired, remote control over the base stations and ESLs can be achieved using SQL queries as
described in 'Appendix I: Using the SQL API'
When the images for ESLs are generated and supplied by the content management system, then
they must meet the following criteria:

The image format must be either .bmp, .gif or .png

The images must be monochrome or black/white/red (so no gray scale or anti-aliasing
allowed!).

Each image file must be uniquely named for each ESL (
image file for multiple ESLs)
In order to process image files automatically the ESL server they should be placed in the
configured 'Input'-folder, accompanied by a matching xml-info file.
The xml-info file provides the ESL server application with information on which image should
be shown on which ESL and some other optional information which is displayed in the ESL
server application.
The file name of the xml-info file is predetermined to:
<MAC address>.XML (i.e. 3889DC0000002345.xml)
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party content management system
it's not allowed to use the same
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