Setting up the home screen and a slideshow
Put a welcome text, photos and shortcuts on the home screen of a tablet or kiosk.
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The home screen is what guests see when there is no receipt on the screen: a welcome text, your logo, buttons and possibly a slideshow with posters or photos of the park. Here you set that up. Every individual setting with its limits is covered under Device settings.
Before you start:
- The device is in SettingsTablets & kiosks, see Managing a tablet or kiosk.
- Photos are JPEG, PNG or WebP files, or an
httpslink to an image.
Changing the welcome text
Open the Home screen tab
Open the device and click the Home screen tile. The Welcome title (at most 60 characters) and Welcome subtitle (at most 120) fields are at the top.
Fill in the text and push
Leave a field empty if the app may keep its own text. Click Save and push.
Adding a slideshow
Open the Slideshow and buttons tab
Click that tile. Under Display you choose how the photos appear.
Choose the display
The photos change behind the logo and the buttons, instead of your organization's background. Guests can tap the buttons at the same time.
Add photos
Click Upload photo, or paste an https address via Add link. You can add up to 20 photos. For a photo you can optionally add a caption of at most 80 characters.
Set the timing
Time per photo ranges from 3 to 600 seconds. Start after from 10 to 3600 seconds. Under Fit you choose Fill the screen (the edges are cropped) or Show whole photo (with black edges).
Click Save and push
The tablet shows the slideshow as soon as it has the settings.
Adding extra buttons
Extra buttons are shortcuts on the home screen, for example to a site map or the guest network. You can have six.
Click Add button
An empty row appears.
Fill in the button
Give it a text, a short description and a web address (https only). Choose an icon from the row and, under When to show, whether the button is always visible or only after a tap.
The bin icon removes a button. Let device decide throws away the list from Tillor, so the tablet uses its own buttons.
What happens next?
- The tablet adjusts the home screen as soon as the settings arrive. A tablet that is offline does so as soon as it is connected again.
- If you set Prepaid button or Settings button to After a tap, the button disappears after the number of seconds you filled in under Hide after.
- A receipt, document or signing request that Tillor sends to the tablet appears over the home screen and disappears again.
Problems?
See also
Manage a tablet or kiosk
Find a device in Tillor, change its settings and push them to the tablet or kiosk, including to all devices of the same type at once.
Setting up night rest for the screen
Let the screen of a tablet or kiosk go off or black at night, at fixed hours or following your organization's opening hours.