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An Organization is the highest-level entity within Gumband. This is typically your company, business unit, or specific team name. Within your Organization, you can create any number of Sites to hold Exhibits and Hardware. A Site is generally the physical location where Exhibits are installed, such as different cities, building locations, or floors.
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Organization, Site, and Exhibit hierarchy
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Gumband is secured using Google Oauth and is extensible to support other third-party providers as necessary. Navigate to
https://app.gumband.com/
in a browser and click the appropriate button to log in. If you have not been added to Gumband, you will see an unauthorized page.
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Permissions are more granular at the Exhibit level. Users can be given read and write permissions for each status, control, and setting. This is especially useful when wanting to share Exhibit information (such as health or metricsanalytics), but prevent users from accidentally modifying mission-critical settings.
Read more in Platform Roles and Granular Permissions.
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User permissions page
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Navigate to the Site under which this Exhibit will exist
Click “Create Exhibit”
Give your Exhibit a name
Optionally enter the MQTT path (usually the computer’s local IP address and MQTT port ie “192.168.1.128:1883”)
Click “Create”
Note the Exhibit ID and token for initializing the SDK
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View Site Exhibits page
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Create Exhibit dialog
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Each Exhibit has Some exhibits have an operating mode (on operating or offstandby). This is useful for day-to-day operation, maintenance, and support in turning off screens and disabling interactivity of Exhibitsfor exhibits. The operating mode status is displayed by the switch first setting on the left of the Exhibit name and connection status — the Exhibit Settings page:
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Operating: if the toggle is
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Gumband also allows specific Controls and Settings to be available depending on the current operating mode; this is defined in the Exhibit Manifest. By default, Settings and Controls are only editable when operating mode is disabled — notice in the screenshots below how the “Reload” button is only available when the operating mode is set to off.
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Operating mode off (“Skip Interaction” disabled)
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Operating mode on (“Reload” disabled)
checked and the icon is a green bolt
Standby: if the toggle is unchecked and the icon is an orange crossed-out bolt
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Statuses are displayed on the “Overview” tab. The list of Statuses is restricted by User Permissions. The “Overview” tab also shows a summary of the Exhibit, including read-only Settings and Hardware information.
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Exhibit Overview tab
Statuses Showing Hyperlinks
Statuses can be used to display links to helpful resources, file servers, and email addresses, even a website hosted by the exhibit. Make sure the URL to be shown has the appropriate protocol prefix, such as http:// or https://, ftp://, mailto:, etc.
Statuses can also display multi-line content by using \n, which converts to line-breaks.
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Controls can be triggered in real-time from the “Controls” tab. The list of Controls is restricted by User Permissions. Controls can be disabled/enabled based on the Exhibit Operating Mode.
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