Secondly, if the text does not fit horizontally, the horizontal alignment will leave the text left-aligned and overflow the right edge of the block no matter which horizontal alignment setting you choose. First, they are totally straight-forward if the text fits within the block bounds (see Size Text to Fit). Horizontal and vertical alignment seem straight-forward, but beware.Note that this will not break words, so if a single word is too big for a line, it will overflow the edge of the block, this is a sign your font is too big, block is too small or your words are too long. Automatically Wrap Text will break text onto another line if the text overflows the right edge of the block.
If you size text to be too large to fit in the block, it will not be cut off at the edge of a block, it will overflow the block bounds.
When disabled, however, Carousel trusts you to size the text properly. Size Text to Fit will make the text the largest possible size it can while still fitting in the bounds of the block, it might not extend all the way to the bounds of the block because font sizes are not granular enough to size it perfectly to a given block.This is different than the RSS bulletin's Character limit which will truncate item text, but will attempt to find sentence boundaries if possible. Limit length will truncate longer text to a certain length, possibly in the middle of a word, so use it only when you know what you're doing.Multi-line Field Size does nothing to affect how a block looks on a bulletin, it just changes the amount of space you are given in the text box that appears on the Content tab. Default Value is the text to display, for dynamic bulletins this can contain #fields# that will be filled in when Carousel updates the bulletin.The remaining three text sections are the tricky ones, and we'll spend the rest of this article covering their tricks. Four of them are pretty straight-forward: Text Gradient, Text Outline, Text Shadow and Text Glow, if you want the text to be filled with a gradient, an outline around it, shadow under it or glow around it simply open the appropriate section, enable that drawing technique and set it how you desire. Text blocks have seven whole sections of properties to control how their text is rendered. If you want to communicate with people through digital signage, you'll probably need words at some point, and words are represented nicely by text. Text blocks are where things really start to happen. Same with a video block, except it can only come from Carousel's Media. Either way, you get some picture-specific properties in the Picture section including if you want the picture to stretch to the block's dimensions or just fit without being stretched ( Maintain aspect ratio).
Picture blocks come in two flavors, depending on if you want the picture's source to be from Carousel's Media or downloaded from a URL ( Web Picture) off the web (either by entering a URL or for dynamic bulletins, it could be a #field# that contains a dynamic URL).
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There's nothing weird about these basic properties, so feel free to set them to however you feel shows off your artistic side. All blocks have a basic set of properties for configuring where they are drawn ( Size and Position), their background color, outline, et c. But to do anything useful, the next step is to select a block.īlocks can be simple shapes (rectangle or ellipse), hold a picture, show a video or display text. You can also reorder blocks using the grippy handle to affect the order in which they are drawn, as blocks towards the front may obscure blocks behind them. There are two bulletin-level sections at the top of the accordion that allow you to select the background, select (either by using the Blocks menu or clicking where the block is on the preview) or create a block. The first step in this journey is to be familiar with the layout editor. This article assumes you want to go past the easy stuff and dig into laying out new templates or really digging into the guts of dynamic bulletin rendering. If that's what you're interested in, this article is not for you. For this, when making a bulletin, you can enter the layout editor, select a block and fumble through the accordion to find the property for Font or Text Color and change it. You can even venture into the layout editor and tweak things on a template such as changing the font or text color. You can use Carousel without ever needing to touch the layout editor by using ready-made templates to create content.
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