Introduction

Multiple Powerboards can be configured, allowing you to tailor each to a certain team or display location.

The metrics used in Powerboards are based on data input into itris, and you can display this information on the following type of slides:

• Leaderboards (24 metrics to utilise)
• Incentive-based challenges (24 metrics to utilise)
• Real-time shout-outs for Placements
• Work anniversaries and birthdays
• Ticker tape that can display new placements, jobs, birthdays, anniversaries and custom messages.

Additionally, you can create and display custom slides to display any other important information, and there is a Welcome slide for when no data is available to display.

Licensing & Technical Specs

In order to use Powerboards, you will need a licence (one for each screen you wish to display a Powerboard on). Please speak with your Account Executive to arrange licensing and installation (which will be carried out by our technical team). Part of this installation will include setting up a system user account for your Powerboards.

Once your licence has been set up by your Account Executive, you will need to refresh your licenses within the IMU > System > Licenses.

Powerboards are compatible with Windows and Linux operating systems and also require a web browser. We recommend running this through a desktop or laptop computer connected to a screen (for the best quality graphics) but it also works on a Raspberry Pi (minimum Pi 4 recommended).

Supported Browsers - Chrome (Version ≥78), Chromium (Version ≥74), Firefox (≥70).

A minimum version of itris 9.8 is required.

Logins

There are two login areas for Powerboards: the Administration area login and the login for the Powerboards themselves.

Administration Area Login

The administration area is where you will create and manage all your Powerboards.

To log into the administration area you will use the system user account login details that will be created in the IMU as part of your installation (see above).

Powerboard Login

Each Powerboard will have its own login details that you will use to log into and display that Powerboard on a particular screen.

For example, if you have two Powerboards and you wish to display each one on a different screen you will use the unique login details for each Powerboard on the relevant screen (assuming you have enough licenses to do so).

Moving between Administration Area & Powerboard

If you are in the Administration area and wish to view a Powerboard click the App button in the top right of the screen (see image below under Administration Area).

If you are on the Login Screen for a Powerboard there is an Admin button in the top right that will take you back to the Administration Area.

When viewing a Powerboard, there is a hidden icon on each slide that will take you back to the Administration Area. This is in the top right, and when you hover over it the hand icon displays.

Administration Area

Once logged in to the Administration Area any previously created Powerboards will be displayed as tiles, along with a tile for creating New Boards.

Beneath each board, along with the name and active times of the board are options to Duplicate and Archive a Board.

Board Configuration

When creating a Board it must have a unique Board Name and User Name. You will also create the login details for that Powerboard, it is these details you will use to log in and display the powerboard on the relevant screens around your office.

The Organisation name will be used on the Ticker Tape when celebrating work Anniversaries.

Slide Timings

In the Board Configuration area you set the Active Times, during which the Board will cycle through the slides as configured. Outside of the Active Times, the Board will display a Welcome screen (static screen) and the data will not refresh.

This is also where the Slide Time is set. This is how long each slide will be on the screen for, with the exception of any shout out slides as the length of time which these display for is dictated by Max Play Time (see below). The slide time excludes any fade in and out times.

A Board will cycle through all the relevant/configured slides and will refresh at the end of a cycle if the cycle is longer than 5 minutes. If the configuration means the cycle is shorter than 5 minutes it will repeat full cycles until the 5 minute minimum is reached before refreshing.

The refreshing cycle does not apply to the Shout Out slides as they are one-off slides that display at the point of the placement being saved. Neither does the refresh apply to the Ticker Tape as this displays in a continuous loop until it receives a Push message from the server for new data. This new data will then be displayed once it has finished scrolling through the current data.

Shout Out Slides

The Shout Out slides celebrate when a placement has been made in itris, and will display on the board. This slide animation runs for 20 seconds and will only appear once per placement.

You can choose for an anthem to play along with the slide to grab everyone’s attention, and even allow users to have their own anthem (see the itris Preferences article). The anthem file must be an .mp3 file.

If you choose to play an anthem you will need to set the Max Play Time. If the sound file is longer than the 20 second animation time the slide will loop until either the song finishes or the configured Max Play Time is reached (whichever is sooner).

If no other slides are configured apart from the Shout Out slides, a welcome screen (static screen) will display between shouts outs.

Theme

You can choose one of the pre-set custom themes or choose to create your own. When creating your own you can set the Background, Accent (which affects the Ticker Tape and selected user on Leaderboard slides) and Text colours using either the colour picker or by inputting the hex code.

Whereas the pre-set themes have graduated background colours, with a custom theme the background colour is solid.

Birthday & Anniversary Slides

Birthdays and Anniversaries slides will show those occurring over the next 7 days, and takes the data from the user accounts set up in the IMU, see the User Management | Users article. If there are no birthdays or anniversaries in the next 7 days these slides won’t show.

Other Board Configuration Options

The Organisational Logo will show on all of the slides so you will want to ensure it is visible with the chosen Board Theme, for example, you might want to create your logo in white so that it stands out. It is recommended this logo is in white with a transparent background in .svg or .png format.

You can additionally set the currency for the metrics to display in.

User Images

Where user images are displayed on slides these are the profile pictures assigned to the user’s account in the User Management area of the itris Management Utility, see the User Management | Users article for more information.

Users Configuration

By default your board will be set to include activity for all users, by toggling this off you get options to manually pick users, choose by Team or by User Group.

Incentive & Leaderboard Metrics

You can create as many Incentive and leaderboard slides as you wish to display. There are 24 metrics that you can choose to use for each as listed below.

Incentive Slides

Once created the tiles for each Incentive will display with details of the date range applied, target and progress. Achieved targets will show with a green tick.

When creating an incentive you can set a date range for the period the incentive is active and an expiry date, after which the incentive slide will no longer show.

The slide itself will display the top 8 contributors towards the incentive, however unlike other slides, if there are no contributions the slide will still display.

Leaderboard Slides

Leaderboards can be set up to reset Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or Yearly.

The Leaderboard Slide will show the top 10 users for the metric in order with the highest achiever at the top, and highlighted. The highlight will cycle through the users every 5 seconds continuously while the slide is visible.

News Ticker

Once toggled on, the ticker tape will display on all slides except the Welcome and Shout Out slides. It will continuously scroll even as the slide behind changes.

The ticker tape will show across the bottom part of the screen, no matter if you have it set to display horizontally or vertically. When it is set to scroll horizontally the text will scroll across the tape from right to left, and if it is set to scroll vertically the text will scroll up from the bottom of the tape to the top.

If the news ticker is toggled on but there are no items configured or if items are configured but no data is applicable then the ticker tape will simply be blank.

Placements made and jobs obtained options can be set to include activity occurring between the last 10 minutes to 24 hours.

Ticker Tape Examples

Custom Slides

Multiple custom slides can be configured to visually display any other information.

The custom board required elements are the background image (.jpg or .png), a title and a message.

When choosing an image we recommend using one that matches the resolution or aspect ratio of the target Powerboard screen.

In terms of resolution, if your screen is Full HD the image should be 1920x1080, and for a 4K screen, it will be 3840x2160.

Aspect ratio is also key, Powerboards are designed to be run on TVs so assumes an aspect ratio of 16:9.

If the Powerboard will be displayed on multiple screens with different resolutions we recommend using the largest resolution.