This program creates digital signage for Communico events and bookings. It can be considered a static site generator for each of the rooms at the library. There is also a "Today's Events" page that gives an overview of everything that is happening that day.
Room Display Example:
Today's Events Example:
Windows:
tclsh86.exe C:\somePath\digitalSignageGen.tcl
or
digitalSignageGen.exe
Unix:
tclsh \somePath\digitalSignageGen.tclThe config file requires the following options:
key
Communico API key goes here.
secret
Communico API secret goes here.
limit
The total number of events to pull data for.
days
How many days of events to show at once.
location
Library location name as configured in Communico.
includeSubtitle
Enabling this will add the subtitle to the title of the event.
roomWhitelist
These rooms will have HTML pages created for them.
This list should be comma separated and contain no spaces.
roomBlacklist
These rooms will never have HTML pages created for them.
This list should be comma separated and contain no spaces.
todaysWhitelist
Which rooms to include in "today's events" feed. This list should be a subset of "roomWhitelist".
This list should be comma separated and contain no spaces.
todaysBlacklist
Which rooms to never include in "today's events" feed.
This list should be comma separated and contain no spaces.
roomStaffWhitelist
These rooms will include "Staff" booking types in their pages.
This list should be comma separated and contain no spaces.
roomStaffBlacklist
These rooms will never include "Staff" booking types in their pages.
This list should be comma separated and contain no spaces.
hideStaffDisplayName
Whether to hide the "real" booking title for staff bookings.
excludeTodaysType
Used to hide bookings by type from the "today's events" feed.
This list should be comma separated and contain no spaces.
dash
Which character to use as a dash for times. ndash should be "–". mdash should be "—".
Use of "-" will automatically be padded with spaces. To turn this off, use "‐".
noon
How to format "12:00 pm". "noon" or "Noon" are suggested.
buttonsRoom
Disabling this will remove the overlay buttons for rooms.
buttonsTodays
Disabling this will remove the overlay buttons for "today's events".
refresh
Refresh interval for the pages in minutes.
maxEvents
Maximum number of events to display per page.
filterStrings
Words or phrases to remove from room names.
The option should be surrounded by curly braces (to allow for spaces) and comma separated.
dateOrder
Which order to have the date elements inside of the date circle.
Valid options are dayOfWeek, dayOfMonth, and month; comma separated.
Any combination of these values is acceptable as long as at least one value is supplied.
scaleRoom
The minimum number of visible events before enabling content scaling.
Setting this value greater than 0 will fit up to 12 items on the room displays.
This is best used whith buttonsRoom disabled and maxEvents set to under 12.
scaleTodays
The minimum number of visible events before enabling content scaling.
Setting this value greater than 0 fit up to 12 items on the "today's events" display.
This is best used whith buttonsTodays disabled.
registrationDetails
Whether to show if the event is registered or drop-in.
todaysFile
The base file name for the "today's events" display.
todaysTitle
The title for the "today's events" display.
If spaces are used, surround with curly braces.
combinedRoom
Rooms to be treated as parent and child.
First value should be parent room and second should be a substring common among the children.
Values should be comma separated. If spaces are used, surround with curly brace.