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Intro

This article introduces you to our custom MeetingRoom app and its core features.

Info

The Meeting Room app is deployed to customer servers per request. To learn more contact our support at sales@wallboard.info!

Please note

This custom app is under active development and any information in this documentation could be inaccurate or outdated!
If you have any questions please contact our support at support@wallboard.info

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What is MeetingRoom?

With the MeetingRoom custom app you can easily keep track of your schedule and display it onto a screen so your coworkers and customers always know when you're available. You can even create a room booking function using standard widget features. MeetingRoom is able to control the LED lights of compatible media player devices as well.

Prerequisites

To utilize the functions of the MeetingRoom app you need to create a datasource. First let's create a credential so the datasource will have access to your calendar (Click here to learn more). Next create the calendar datasource and don't forget to select the credential type, the credential you created previously and the calendar you want to use. After saving double check if your datasource has your calendar's data by clicking the eye icon in the datasource's row.

Setting up the widget

Datasource binding

After you've successfully created your datasource you can place the Meeting Room app widget and configure the datasource binding.

  • My dataset: This is the datasource you created that contains all you calendar events. Select only the root of the calendar. When configured correctly your datasource binding should look like this: mr1.png

Widget Settings

In the General Settings section, you can configure various essential options for the widget's behavior and appearance.

  • Refresh Interval: Set the refresh interval in seconds to define how often the application checks your calendar for updates.
  • Widget Type: Choose from a range of widget types. For more details, see the Widget Types section.
  • Global Font Settings:
    • Select the font family.
    • Adjust the font size to match your preferences.
  • Text Visibility & Trimming:
    • Set the maximum number of characters displayed in a string.
    • Define how many characters should be trimmed from the beginning of a string for better display.
  • Widget Layout: Choose the default structure of the widget—whether the title block appears above or below the time block (Title-Time or Time-Title).

Widget Types

Actual meeting widget type can display the title and time of your current calendar event.
Check the documentation for Actual meeting mode

Sensor events

Using sensor events you can change the led lights of your device depending on the status of your actual meeting type widget. Valid sensor events are:

  • free
  • busy
  • starting

In this example the status light turns red on a QBIC device when there is an ongoing event: mr9.png

For more device-specific commands please refer to our article here.