'Ticker' at bottom of the screen
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Yes, the goal is to have scrolling text to remind employee's of things to do or things coming up.
"Remember to ask clients if they want..." or "Remember today is 10% off of...."
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@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
scroll at the bottom of the screen for employee's to see throughout the day.
This implies that a central person will make changes that affect all (or at least many) other people's computers.
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@dashrender said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
scroll at the bottom of the screen for employee's to see throughout the day.
This implies that a central person will make changes that affect all (or at least many) other people's computers.
How does that person plan to update all the end user computers with the new information?Just for ONE pc.
I think I may have found one: https://slashbackassociates.com/ --- Text Ticker
It's VERY basic but I think that's what they want.
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@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
It's VERY basic but I think that's what they want.
Until it's not pretty enough . . .
lol
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@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
Not looking for RSS feeds, just custom text that she can manually input and would scroll at the bottom of the screen for employee's to see throughout the day.
RSS would be a good input method for that, though.
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@scottalanmiller said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
Not looking for RSS feeds, just custom text that she can manually input and would scroll at the bottom of the screen for employee's to see throughout the day.
RSS would be a good input method for that, though.
Yeah, he is not listening to a damned thing. the best thing to do would be to use an RSS ticker and just whip out a quick RSS formatted file someplace that can be edited.
Doing something custom on the machine is just stupid.
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@jaredbusch said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@scottalanmiller said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
Not looking for RSS feeds, just custom text that she can manually input and would scroll at the bottom of the screen for employee's to see throughout the day.
RSS would be a good input method for that, though.
Yeah, he is not listening to a damned thing. the best thing to do would be to use an RSS ticker and just whip out a quick RSS formatted file someplace that can be edited.
Doing something custom on the machine is just stupid.
There's the little ray of sunshine I've been looking for all day.
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@jaredbusch said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@scottalanmiller said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
Not looking for RSS feeds, just custom text that she can manually input and would scroll at the bottom of the screen for employee's to see throughout the day.
RSS would be a good input method for that, though.
Yeah, he is not listening to a damned thing. the best thing to do would be to use an RSS ticker and just whip out a quick RSS formatted file someplace that can be edited.
Doing something custom on the machine is just stupid.
If you want to explain better how to do that, I'll listen, but no reason to be a dick about it.
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@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@jaredbusch said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@scottalanmiller said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
Not looking for RSS feeds, just custom text that she can manually input and would scroll at the bottom of the screen for employee's to see throughout the day.
RSS would be a good input method for that, though.
Yeah, he is not listening to a damned thing. the best thing to do would be to use an RSS ticker and just whip out a quick RSS formatted file someplace that can be edited.
Doing something custom on the machine is just stupid.
If you want to explain better how to do that, I'll listen, but no reason to be a dick about it.
A RSS feed is simply an XML file when delivered. Most CMS systems and such generate it on page load, but you can easily just make a file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Your Feed</title> <link>https://somelink.com</link> <description>Some Text</description> <item> <title>Item title you want ot see</title> <link>https://some.com/item/link</link> <description>Item Description</description> </item> </channel> </rss>Go stick it someplace the desktop can access it from.
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@jaredbusch said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@jaredbusch said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@scottalanmiller said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
Not looking for RSS feeds, just custom text that she can manually input and would scroll at the bottom of the screen for employee's to see throughout the day.
RSS would be a good input method for that, though.
Yeah, he is not listening to a damned thing. the best thing to do would be to use an RSS ticker and just whip out a quick RSS formatted file someplace that can be edited.
Doing something custom on the machine is just stupid.
If you want to explain better how to do that, I'll listen, but no reason to be a dick about it.
A RSS feed is simply an XML file when delivered. Most CMS systems and such generate it on page load, but you can easily just make a file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Your Feed</title> <link>https://somelink.com</link> <description>Some Text</description> <item> <title>Item title you want ot see</title> <link>https://some.com/item/link</link> <description>Item Description</description> </item> </channel> </rss>Go stick it someplace the desktop can access it from.
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@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@jaredbusch said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@scottalanmiller said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
Not looking for RSS feeds, just custom text that she can manually input and would scroll at the bottom of the screen for employee's to see throughout the day.
RSS would be a good input method for that, though.
Yeah, he is not listening to a damned thing. the best thing to do would be to use an RSS ticker and just whip out a quick RSS formatted file someplace that can be edited.
Doing something custom on the machine is just stupid.
If you want to explain better how to do that, I'll listen, but no reason to be a dick about it.
If he wasn't, I would think that something was wrong.
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@JaredBusch and anyone else.
What would you use to have the ticker scroll across the bottom of the desktop?
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@dustinb3403 said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@JaredBusch and anyone else.
What would you use to have the ticker scroll across the bottom of the desktop?
Never looked, haven't had a need for something like this.
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@dustinb3403 said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@JaredBusch and anyone else.
What would you use to have the ticker scroll across the bottom of the desktop?
Have not ever used the feature myself.
Had users that used desktop widgets back in the Vista and Win 7 days.
I have no idea what would be a good product now.
One was linked earlier and the OP bitched about it because it was a RSS ticker.
The point is RSS based would always be better than something only on the one computer he wants. Because it would be a pain in the ass to keep updated.
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The one linked above is the top result (well another page that links to it) when I googled it.
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/desktop-ticker-free-rss-reader
This links to the one that @black3dynamite linked to.
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@jaredbusch Actually it's MUCH easier for her to edit a text file than an XML file.
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@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@jaredbusch Actually it's MUCH easier for her to edit a text file than an XML file.
Well that would be 100% false as XML is a text file.
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@jaredbusch Ok, a PLAIN text file.
Typing this: Remember to give 10% off of all shots
Is much easier than her doing it in XML.
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@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@jaredbusch Ok, a PLAIN text file.
Typing this: Remember to give 10% off of all shots
Is much easier than her doing it in XML.
And kicking hte user off the computer so she can log in with admin rights to change a file that the user will not be allowed to change is easier than simply editing a file on a share somewhere?
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@jaredbusch Yes, in this case no one uses the computer, it's just setup for display. No one except her uses it.
So YES.
