Notifications

Notifications in Power Tool are supported only for the Dashboards & Wallboards Fall23 and newer versions.

Power Tool can receive local notifications configured in the DW.

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To configure a notification rule in DW, compatible with the Power Tool, follow these steps:

  • Open layout in the Layout editor

  • On the desired segment, enable Notification Rules in the Calculation group and add a new one

    ../_images/notification-rule-1.png

  • Fill the condition that should trigger the notification, and add new message

    ../_images/notification-rule-2.png

  • Select “DW Local” as a Channel, fill the Subject and the Message Body

    If you want to use a Busylight notifications, see Busylight section.

    ../_images/notification-rule-3.png

  • Click on “Share Layouts” button

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  • Copy the URL from the Share Layouts dialog

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  • Right-click on the Power Tool icon and select “Settings”

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  • Paste the copied URL into the “Browser URL” field and confirm by clicking on “OK” button.

    If Dynamic Filter with URL parameters is used in the layout, you can define them in the “Browser URL”. For more information see Dynamic Filter chapter in the DW Layout Editor guide.

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  • Layout is displayed by the Power Tool and notifications from the layout are received.

Busylight

It is possible to configure a special notification in the DW, which Power Tool processes and then sends a request to the localhost server that controls Kuando Busylight.

This notification has to meet following requirements:

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  • Channel - “DW Local” channel has to be selected

  • Subject - “busylight” has to be filled as a message subject

  • Message Body - desired action has to be filled as a message body (e.g. action=light)

Busylight actions

Below are actions with all available parameters, that can be defined in the message body:

If you want to use the default value, then you do not need to provide a parameter.

Light command

action=light&red=100&green=100&blue=100

Parameter Name

Values

Red

0..100 (Default 0)

Green

0..100 (Default 0)

Blue

0..100 (Default 0)

Alert command

action=alert&red=100&sound=5&volume=25

Parameter Name

Values

Red

0..100 (Default 0)

Green

0..100 (Default 0)

Blue

0..100 (Default 0)

Sound

0..8 (See list)

Volume

0..100 (See list)

Sound

Sound number

No sound

0

Fairy Tale

1

Funky

2

Kuando Train

3 (Default)

Open Office

4

Quiet

5

Telephone Nordic

6

Telephone original

7

Telephone Pick Me Up

8

Volume

Volume value

100%

100

75%

75 (Default)

50%

50

25%

25

Mute

0

Jingle command

action=jingle&red=100&sound=3&volume=100

Parameter Name

Values

Red

0..100 (Default 0)

Green

0..100 (Default 0)

Blue

0..100 (Default 0)

Sound

0..8 (See list)

Volume

0..100 (See list)

For Sound and Volume values, see the Alert command.

Pulse command

action=pulse&blue=100&red=100

Parameter Name

Values

Red

0..100 (Default 0)

Green

0..100 (Default 0)

Blue

0..100 (Default 0)

ColorWithFlash command

action=colorwithflash&green=100&red=100&flashblue=100

Parameter Name

Values

Red

0..100 (Default 0)

Green

0..100 (Default 0)

Blue

0..100 (Default 0)

flashred

0..100 (Default 0)

flashgreen

0..100 (Default 0)

flashblue

0..100 (Default 0)

Off command

action=off

The Off-Command has no parameters associated with it.