Label panel

What is a Label panel?

A label panel is as the name suggests a panel that can be used to provide a meaningful label for your display board or any area of the Display board. e.g. If the Display board is showing summary stats for your London site you might want choose something like 'London summary stats' as the name for the label panel. If your display board was showing call information for the service team at London, you may choose to call the display panel 'London Service'. You can also add an image to a Label panel.

There is no limit to the number of label panels you can use on a Display board. e.g. you may choose to add a large label panel at the top of the board and smaller label panels on subsections.

Note The Label panel is first panel available in the list as represented by the letter A on the list of available panels below:

The following two examples show how a Label panel could eventually look on a Display board. The first example shows a simple Display board with one label panel at the top, stating Manchester Sales. The second example shows a Display board with a larger label panel at the top saying Telesales followed by two smaller label panels describing the sections below, Top Performers and Summary Stats. A live RSS feed is also included on this board.

HOW DO I SELECT AND ADD LABEL PANEL

To select the Label panel, float over and click to select.

The list of panels types available immediately disappears and the following blank screen will appear with the white + sign indicating where the panel will begin on the screen

Simply drag your mouse across the screen and you can size the panel as you can see in below:

HOW DO I NAME AND CUSTOMISE MY LABEL PANEL

To customize your label panel, click on the white arrow on the top left hand side of the screen as shown below:

To change the panel properties, simply click on the nut as shown below:

The following screen will appear:

Enter the name you would like to appear on the label as shown below:

Then choose the style of font you would like to use for your header.

Then choose the font size you would like to use by simply selecting from the drop-down list as shown here:

To select the text colour, click on the drop-down arrow . This will show the colour palate available:

To select a standard colour, all you need to do is click on it. To add a custom colour, click on one of the blank custom colour squares and add the RGB colours to add to your custom palette. You need to click on the Apply button to apply the colour.

If you would like text to appear as bold, italic or underlined, simply click on the required box to highlight as shown below:

Note that you can select more than one option if required e.g. bold and italic and underlined.

If determine the placement, simply click on below:

CREATING BACKGROUND FOR THE LABEL PANEL

Click on the 'Background' tab to configure the properties for the background of your label panel as shown below:

If you would like to add an image source, simply type the details in the box as shown below. Otherwise leave blank.

You can decide to repeat the image or centre it on the panel, by selecting from the drop-down list as shown below:

To select the background colour, click on the drop-down arrow . This will show the colour palate available:

To select a standard colour, all you need to do is click on it. To add a custom colour, click on one of the blank custom colour squares and add the RGB colours to add to your custom palette. You need to click on the Apply button to apply the colour.

N.B. Please ensure the background colour selected is different to the text colour on the previous content section for this label panel or you will not see the text.

LIGHTING EFFECTS

If you would like to apply lighting effects to the label panel, just tick the box as shown here:

The two examples below show the difference between panels with and without lighting effects. The solid black panel has no lighting effects while the one with the slight shine has a lighting effect applied.

LABEL PANEL MATRICS

To define the panel's metrics to suit your particular screen, simply type the required pixel sizes in the boxes as shown below:

Click the Save button to save any changes made.