SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual 1 Introduction The CDA Conference Display Application is application to a large screen projector placed an application in the SW6000 suite of inside the meeting room or hall. applications designed to show various The CDA application has when used in the displays for a large audience like: meeting no user interface.
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual 2 CDA Configuration>CDA Screen Configuration>Custom Screens Purpose The purpose of this screen is to allow client-side customizations. The editing is simple, not using special tools. The definition is essentially a small text file. CDA Screen Definition The ‘CDA Custom Screen’...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual 3 XML description Syntax A screen definition consist of three types of elements: Screen Definition • Controls • • Comments Screen The main element in the screen definition is Screen. It has the following attributes: Name –...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual 4 Screen Elements Screen Margin From the available CDA screen space a margin is subtracted. The a=1/18 total margin thickness is by default 1/18 of the screen height. The rectangle within that margin is divided into a grid, where the elements should be placed.
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Grid definition example To define a logical grid with 5 rows, of which first and last take up 1 unit, second – 2 units, and the other two take up the available room and have 1:2 ratio, the following definition is used: “1,2,1*,2*,1”.
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Row and column priorities Each logical element (row or column) has a priority, 1 or larger. Lower number means higher priority, 1 is top priority. If no priority is defined, it defaults to 1. Each logical grid element also has a minimum size.
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Placement of Controls Each cell in this logical grid has two coordinates: row and column. Each coordinate is an integer number 1 to Max. Each control is placed in the space, occupied by crossing of a number of rows with a number of columns.
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual 5 Formatted and list controls Most of the controls are either formatted controls or list controls. The former controls only show one data item (or nothing), the latter — potentially many items. Both kinds of controls share a number of properties: ItemSize •...
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SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Align • • Format Overflow • By default, all same fields in the same list have the same width, which is just enough to show the largest item in that column. This behavior can be modified by assigning the following values to Width option: ItemFit –...
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SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual but not always correspond to ItemFormat fields defined ‘Table 1. Supported controls’ and ‘Table 2. ItemFormat fields’. They are also shown on the CDA screen in case of a mistyped property. The format should not use characters ‘{‘, and ‘}’ for other purposes than described above. Example 1 Square brackets and commas should be preceded by a backslash (‘\[‘, ‘\]’, ‘\,’).
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual HorizontalContentAlignment, VerticalContentAlignment These properties regulate how the list data area as a whole is placed inside its cell. For lists HorizontalContentAlignment only has effect when ColumnCount is not 1 (see Figure 4). For non-lists HorizontalContentAlignment only affects Text control. Figure 4.
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual 6 List definition Many of the controls are lists (these are marked in Table 1). Most lists support the following parameters: ColumnCount • ColumnPadding • AlternationCount • ShowHeader • HeaderFormat • HeaderTextId • GroupHeaderFormat •...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual identical vertical sizes. Horizontal (from 6.1) places its items on a single line. Generally, this attribute shouldn’t be changed. AutoScroll Tells the list, whether it shall scroll automatically, or not scroll at all. The scrolling speed / delay is predefined.
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Order option Each filtered group can be sorted Ascending (default) or Descending (or not sorted at all – value None is to be used). For Agenda items the value Original can be used, which orders the Agenda in the original order.
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual ItemsToSkip Items in the list can be skipped via the ItemsToSkip parameter. A number of items from the beginning of the list will simply not be shown in the UI. The skipping is done after sorting, if there is sorting defined. Default value for ItemsToSkip is 0.
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual 7 Simple controls A number of controls have only few parameters to adjust. This section describes some of them. All controls are briefly described in ‘Table 1. Supported controls’. HorizontalLine, VerticalLine Draw a line in the given cell, according to the specified direction and alignment. Properties: Thickness –...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual The following attributes are adjustable. Attribute Type Description ImageId String The ID as defined in CAA (Setup Configurations CDA Configuration, Custom images). IsCustomImage Boolean True by default. When set to False, the ImageId can refer to a system- defined image, like participant picture.
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Conference Variables The following variables are available in this control: Variable name Type Description DelegatesOnList Integer The number of participants expected according to meeting-defined participant list; if there is no participant list, 0. The value of this variable is the same as the variable ‘DelOnList’ used in Voting Configurations.
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Text This is the basic control showing text with a large number of properties. Content properties TextId – ID from labels database, which text should be shown. Shows the text in the current • language, if not defined –...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual 8 Skin colors and styles Some properties accept a skin color/style enumeration, which allows reuse of skin-defined colors (see the document ’User Manual SW 6090 CDA’). Values are described in the following table. Name Stroke color Background color Other...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual 9 Advanced objects’ properties The following properties are being described in this section. Property Mic mimic Vote mimic Bar chart Pie chart Elevation RotationAngle OscillationPoint OscillationAngle DotSize ItemStyle Filter Thickness ItemPadding ItemThickness ItemOrientation BarStyle BarContentFormat MaxBarThickness InternalRadius...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Mimic item-level properties DotSize allows changing the dot size on a per-control basis. The default is set in the mimic definition. ItemStyle defines how the items (dots) on the mimic look like. These styles are predefined. None –...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual 10 Data tables Supported controls If control’s name is mistyped, a list of available controls is shown on CDA screen. All controls support the following properties: • Row – on which Screen row the control’s left top corner is located (1 or more) Column –...
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SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Control name Content Type Additional properties QueueList A list of all activated microphones, be it List speak, request, or reply (from 6.1) RemainingRequestTime How much time is left until request list is ClosedTextId closed. ClosedTextFormat RequestCounter How many persons are on the request...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual ItemFormat fields The available fields are also shown on CDA in case of a mistyped field. Table 2. ItemFormat fields Control Field Comments Default format Agenda, Indentation Horizontal space, corresponding to the agenda item level multiplied by row unit CurrentAgendaItem, size.
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SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Control Field Comments Default format TimeHhMm The running time of the meeting. %h:mm TimeHhMmSs The running time of the meeting. %h:mm:ss CustomTime The running time of the meeting. ScheduledStart The date/time of the scheduled meeting start.
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SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Control Field Comments Default format Default value for Width option is Rest. LastSpeakerList, Text Name or show-name for this participant’s meeting role. LatestSpeaker, Default value for Width option is Rest. RequestList, Position Position in the list (1 is the first position, 2 SpeakerList –...
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SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Control Field Comments Default format TimeBar A progress bar for the elapsed time. Space Nothing at all is shown, empty space. Default value for Width option is Rest. SpeechTimeStatus Text Text, when speech timer is paused, nothing when running.
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SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Control Field Comments Default format Options The number of available voting options for the session. The same hiding rules as above. Space Nothing at all is shown, empty space. Default value for Width option is Rest. VoteResultBarChart Text Vote item text (like “Yes”...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual HeaderFormat fields The header format can be set for any list control. Table 3. HeaderFormat fields Field Comments Default format Text Header text, fetched from the database with HeaderTextId. ItemCount Item count. Show the number of items in the list ({0}) PageList For page-scrolling lists identifies the current page.
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual 11 Customized displays, examples The following are examples of customized screen which can be created in SW6000. Some screens are shown with grid lines. This is very useful when creating the screens, but should be disabled (set to ‘False’) after the screen has been created. The examples can be copy/pasted directly into ‘Screen Definition’...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Short Description, Speakers This layout shown the current subjects and the Short Description associated with each level. <Screen Name="Current Subject List and Speakers" RowSizes="1,1.2,1,0.8,1.3*,1,*" ColumnSizes="*,0.8,*" ShowGridLines="False"> <CurrentTime Row="1" ColumnSpan="0" ItemFormat="[Time][Space][Date]"/> <CurrentConference Row="2" ColumnSpan="2"/> <LatestSpeaker Row="2"...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Speech Time Display The following examples are for creating a display showing the speech time. If pulsation of the red color at speech time expiration is not needed, the CDA must be started with the command line parameter “pulsation none”.
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Sub-title for croma key The following screens are intended to be used when text are to be place in the bottom of the screen using chroma key. The color of the screen can be configured in the following way: Background screen color set in the CDA Screen/Skin •...
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SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual This example has the ‘SeatComment’ field replaced with the DelegateSpeechTime:: <Screen Name="Speakers, Subtitle, Speech Time " RowSizes="*,1" ColumnSizes="*" ShowGridLines="False" Margin="0"> <Image ="1" ImageId="Chroma Key 255-128-255" Opacity="1" Stretch="UniformToFill" HorizontalContentAlignment="Center" VerticalContentAlignment="Center" /> <LatestSpeaker Row="2" ItemSize="1" TextStyle="ConferenceTitle" ItemFormat="[MicrophoneState,Format=Thin] [Text,Width=ColumnFit] [Space] [SeatNumber, Format=Seat {0}][Space][DelegateSpeechTime]"...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Voting, List and Individual The following example is for creating a display showing the total and individual voting result. The individual results are shown in 3 columns. <Screen Name="Voting, Total and Individual" RowSizes="1,1,2,1,1,*,1" ColumnSizes="*,0.5,3*" ShowGridLines="False">...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Voting, Individual The following example is for creating a display showing individual voting result grouped by the result. The individual results are shown in 4 columns. <Screen Name="Voting List, Individual Votes" RowSizes="0.7,1.5,1.5*,*,1" ShowGridLines="False" Margin="15" >...
SW6000 Conference Management Software User Manual Conference Variables The following example shows the conference variable available. <Screen RowSizes="2*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*,*" ColumnSizes="*,*" > <Text Row="1" ItemSize="Auto" ColumnSpan="0" HorizontalAlignment="Center" Text="Variables"/> <ConferenceVariable Row="2" Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Right" ItemFormat="[Expression, Format=DelegatesOnList in: {DelegatesOnList}]"/> <ConferenceVariable Row="3" Column="1" HorizontalAlignment="Right" ItemFormat="[Expression, Format=DelegatesPresent: {DelegatesPresent}]"/> <ConferenceVariable Row="4"...
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