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Wayfinder Importer

The Wayfinder Importer application is the bridge between your Hotel/Facility/Booking/Room Management Solution and Smartsign Display Manager.

Introduction​

Smartsign Wayfinder is an add-on application that uses Smartsign Display Manager to create bookings for meeting rooms and then show them on displays to guide staff and guests. Limited customization is possible to fit the customers’ requirements

Licensing​

Smartsign Wayfinder is an add-on application to Smartsign Display Manager. To purchase the rights to use it, please contact your reseller or Smartsign Sales department. A valid Support & Upgrades agreement (SMSUP) is also required for continued use.

Server requirements​

Smartsign 10 cloud service or Smartsign Server 10.2 or higher

Installing Smartsign Wayfinder Importer​

The Wayfinder Importer can can be installed on a computer of your choice, but we recommend installing it on a server so that it's running 24/7.

  1. Create an account for the Wayfinder Importer on your Smartsign Server or Cloud Service. The user should have the Wayfinder user profile.
  2. Install Smartsign Wayfinder Importer to a computer. The computer must be able to access both the source of the bookings (server, file, cloud service depending on data source) and your Smartsign Server/Cloud service.
  3. Fill in the server address and the account details of the account you just created to connect to Smartsign.
  4. It can be a good idea to set the log level to "DEBUG" initially in order to get more detailed logging when you configure the actual import.
  5. Save your settings and allow the service to restart when prompted.
  6. The Wayfinder Importer service should now be connected, and you can proceed with logging on to Smartsign Publisher and creating a data source.

Using the Logo feature​

Manual bookings using Smartsign Publisher​

To use logos when you create manual bookings, create a booking as you would normally, but instead of skipping the first step of the booking you upload a logo image or select one from the media library.

Imported bookings using Smartsign Wayfinder Importer​

When you create a Wayfinder importer data source there are two settings that control how logos are matched and attached to the bookings created.

MatchLogos

True: Search the Media library for images files where the filename or tags match the booking name. If found, the first match will be added to the booking in Smartsign.

False: Do not add logos

MatchLogoExact

True: Only match logos with names or tags matching exactly.

False: Allow partial matches.

When you create a Wayfinder Importer data source you configure a Smartsign user credential which operates that data source internally. You must make sure to give that user access to the media library folder where you upload the logos. Logos are only matched when the bookings are imported and created. Uploading a logo afterwards will have no effect on existing bookings.