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The Announcements feature allows you to display important messages across your Vivi fleet. These messages will appear as text with a 150 character limit.
Prerequisites
Firmware version 3.7.0 or newer installed on the Vivi boxes.
Vivi App version 3.7.0 or newer installed on the end user device.
To use the feature you’ll need to be assigned the IT Admin or Announcer role or be assigned permission to an announcer group.
How to use Announcements
Triggering Announcements
Open the Vivi App and select the Announcements option at the top of the window located next to Rooms.
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Locations and Rooms are only visible to users with the IT Admin or Announcer rolesrole. Presenters given permission to specific announcement groups will only see those groups as options. |
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Click Send Now to send the announcement out to the selected Rooms/Locations. The location of the announcement banner differs based on the current usage of the room:
Splash - Banner at the Top of the screen
Share Screen, Play Content & Digital Signage - Banner at the Bottom of the screen
Emergencies - Announcements are not displayed
Ending Announcements
Announcements can be ended before the set duration both through the Vivi App and Vivi Central.
Vivi App
While an announcement is in progress the user who initiated the message will see a green banner displayed at the top of the Announcements tab.
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Note: Only the most recent announcement can be ended via the Vivi app button. Any previous announcements will need to be ended via Vivi Central as shown below. |
Vivi Central
Announcements can also be cancelled by IT admins through Vivi Central under the Announcements > Messages menu. This menu will display a list of all In progress and Completed announcements.
Announcements can be ended manually by clicking the red End button.
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Creating Announcement Groups
Announcement Groups can be used to grant Presenters announcement access to specified groups of Vivi rooms.
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Enter a name for your Announcement group and click the Create button to finalise the group creation.
Next to assign users access to the Announcement Group click the name of the group, open the Permissions tab and select Add Users.
Add the required users from the list and click Submit to apply permissions.
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To enable users to send Message Announcements to this group open the Details Tab Click Edit, toggle the Enable Message Announcements option and Save Changes.
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