How to use Metadata in Q-Play
Introduction
Metadata is a powerful feature that allows you to customize and target content for specific screens based on their location, purpose, or other parameters. It acts as an organizational tool, enabling you to assign key-value pairs to screens and presentations for tailored content delivery. By using metadata, you can efficiently manage and distribute different designs or messages to specific groups of screens. This is especially useful when working with digital signage across multiple countries, cities, or departments.
1. Log in to Q-Play and click your name in the top-right corner.
2. Select Metadata from the dropdown menu.
3. Click Add metadata.
4. Under Metadata Name: Provide a name that describes the metadata, e.g., “Countries” or “Departments.”
5. Under Description: Add a short description, e.g., “Metadata for managing designs based on countries.”
6. Under Elements: Enter the name for the metadata, e.g., “DK” for Danish screens.
7. Under Value: Repeat the same name as in Elements, e.g., “dk.”
8. Click + to add more keys if you have multiple designs or countries, such as “SE” for Sweden or “NO” for Norway.
9. Click DesignTool to edit or create a design.
10. Open the presentation you want to add metadata to, or create a new presentation.
11. Click Settings.
12. Select Metadata
13. then Edit metadata.
14. Choose the value you created earlier, e.g., “dk” for Danish screens.
15. Click Save.
Add metadata to all slides in the presentation to match the desired values for the screens.
16. Go to Players.
17. Select the screens (players) where you want to apply the metadata.
18. Choose the appropriate metadata and value, e.g., “dk: dk.”
19. Click Add metadata.
20 Click Add metadata.
21. Ensure the metadata is correctly displayed under Presentations attached for the selected presentation.
22. Click x to close the page.
Frequently Asked Questions
• Design not matching screens: Verify that you’ve selected the correct metadata for both presentations and screens.
• Missing slides: Ensure that all slides in the presentation have the correct metadata value.
• Naming consistency: Use consistent and meaningful names for metadata keys and values to avoid confusion.
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