What We Will Achieve in this Tutorial

In this tutorial we will setup a client and create all the necessary components to create a simple menu board that aquires all the dynamic data from an ODBC source. In this tutorial you will learn how to:

1.  Create a Client

2.  Setup a Player

3.  Setup a Channel for the player

4.  Design a professional looking menu board in the Overlay Designer which includes the following elements:

a.  Use of a professionally designed reference image

b.  Insert images

c.  Insert text

d.  Connect up elements in your menu board to an ODBC data source

e.  Setup a text ticker with a text file

f.   Insert and format a date / time object

5.  Schedule the menu board to play at certain times

6.  Upload all media to a Player and play back your menu board