There are many ways to get your content into OptiSigns and onto your screens.
- Supported File and Media Formats
- Ready-Made Templates
- Feeds: Curated Content for All Environments
- Popular Apps and Integrations
- Canva
- Engage Kiosk Assets
- Displaying Dashboards: Power BI, Reports, and More
- Google Drive and OneDrive Synchronization
- API Integration
Supported File and Media Formats
OptiSigns supports a wide range of file types for playback. These include:
- Images: JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF.
- Videos: AVI and MP4.
- Documents: PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, all OpenOffice file types.
OptiSigns also supports Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and other web and online media streaming content through our integrated "App" feature.
Ready-Made Templates
We offer an expansive Template library, with over a thousand currently live and more added weekly. These pre-built templates cater to a wide variety of businesses, use cases, events, and more! Not only are these templates eye-catching, vibrant, and captivating, they are also customizable.
Read one of these support articles to learn more about using templates:
- Navigating Through OptiSigns' Template Library
- How to lock objects or part of the Designer Templates (lockable template)
- How to Use Animation on Templates & Designer Tool
Feeds: Curated Content for Any Environment
OptiSigns Feeds is a collection of pre-built, fresh, engaging content designed to enhance your business. These feeds cover a wide range of topics and formats, providing dynamic content to keep your digital signage interesting.
We constantly add more Feeds and update existing ones to ensure your signs stay fresh and relevant. They are not customizable.
You can learn more about Feeds and how to incorporate them into your digital signage below:
Popular Apps and Integrations
We offer over 160+ integrated apps, with popular features being Google and Microsoft integration, social media, weather app features, Split Screen, and more. These apps allow for many customization options to make your screen match your needs.
Here are just a few:
- Weather Wall and Radar
- Linkedin, Instagram, Facebook
- Youtube
- PowerBi
- Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, Teams
- Google Slides, Sheets, Drive
- Website, Web Scripting, Website Screenshot
Canva
Canva is an easy-to-use online graphic design tool offering a vast library of templates perfect for digital signage, including presentations, posters, and videos.
OptiSigns is one of the few digital signage providers with Canva integration. As such, pushing content to your screens is easy. You can both export and upload Canva images and videos or copy and paste a Live Embed link to OptiSigns.
Read our support article to learn how to get started with Canva and OptiSigns:
Engage Kiosk Assets
| You will need the Engage plan to access these interactive kiosk features. |
Engage offers an interactive screen experience, enabling users to effortlessly create and manage Kiosk screens along with various Engage apps. This suite of applications turns a screen into a dynamic communication tool. With Engage, you can create engaging and interactive connections with your customers, enhancing their experience and fostering meaningful interactions.
- Kiosk Lite
- Kiosk Designer
- Content Library Kiosk
- QR Scan-to-Interact
- Lift & Learn (and other IoT Sensor experience)
- AI Camera
- Enterprise App
- Check in & SMS follow up
Displaying Dashboards: Power BI, Reports, and More
Want to display Dashboards, Reports, KPIs, and more on your screens? Link your PowerBI or create a secured dashboard in our portal to keep your organization up to date on the information that matters most!
OptiSigns offers maximum flexibility for sharing KPIs on your office digital signage. It is easy to share data either manually or automatically. You can create and upload your own graphics, charts, images, or other files and set them to display on your selected signs.
These guides break down how to set up these features so you can get to displaying your dashboards:
- How to Display Microsoft PowerBI Dashboard & Report on a TV
- How to use Secured Dashboard App
- How to use Web Scripting App
Google Drive and OneDrive Synchronization
With OptiSigns, you can quickly put images and videos from your Microsoft OneDrive or Google Drive on your screens using our integrated apps. These apps will create a playlist for files in your dedicated drives, and any changes or updates will automatically be synced. This allows you to update and share content within your team without needing to login to OptiSigns portal.
To learn more about how to set this up, please read the following support articles:
API Integration
At OptiSigns, we strive to build an easy-to-use platform and make even complex use cases user-friendly. With the API gateway and API-to-Screen feature, users can easily integrate their API from other systems, get it mapped using the designer app, then send it to a screen. This requires minimal to no coding and can be set up by users without a software engineering background.
API integration can be applied to many common use cases:
- Digital menu boards: Integrate with your point-of-sale systems and get the data management block updated automatically, as well as edit the format of your data management block using the Designer app as needed.
- Automated HR update: Use the API from your HR systems to display birthdays or work anniversaries on the screens automatically.
- Any other information display use cases that you will need to consume API data and display the data on the screens.
This feature consists of two parts:
| API Gateway | API-to-Screen Data Mapping with OptiSync |
| This is a console to allows users to centrally manage the APIs, as well as configure and test the APIs. | Use OptiSync's DataSources and Repeaters in the Designer app to get an element on Designer mapped to the API data. The screens will call the API and use the API data on the element when there is a change. |