Webplus - Custom Smartlaunch Skins

View a complete guide on how to install your new skin on your server...

* Extract all the files from the downloaded rar file.
* Open your server's Smartlaunch path and then point at Server » Data » Files » Skins
* Make a new folder and name it as you wish (e.g.: NewSkin)
* Copy all the files and paste them in the new Folder you just created (e.g.: D:\Services\Smartlaunch\Server\Data\Files\Skins\NewSkin)
* Open your SmartLaunch Server and go to Settings » Client Computers » Customization and check the one with the name you added in step #2 ( NewSkin ).
* Via Administrator you should make a Client Update to all your Computers so the changes will take effect.

NOTE: If after these steps the skin works only via a second client update, you should de-freeze the pc and make a restart, so the new skin will be able to load all of its contents.
TIP: If you have the videos feature on your skin, is better for you to de-freeze your computers so that it won't have to load a lot of megabytes every time it restarts.

To use this component you need to first add your videos to the “_videos” folder.
All the files should be .flv or .mp4
Then you need to edit content.xml to add paths to each video and set description. Below is the XML structure:

You can insert your own values
Aspect: 16:9 or 4:3
Thumb: A thumbnail icon for each video
VideoClip: The path of your video. Should be relative, not absolute
Title: Adescriptive title of the video

If you want to add video copy & paste line 2. E.g.:

Tip: It is better defreezing client pc’s once and loading the skin, so that videos will be stored directly in each pc.
The result will be faster loading time of Smartlaunch Client Application.

You have the opportunity to swap your backgrounds dynamically. Learn here how is this possible...

1. Just replace the "main_bgr.jpg" with any image you want.
2. Make a Client Update and the new image should appear on your Interface.

NOTE 1: You should consider that it is better having same image dimensions with the clients’ screen resolution.
NOTE 2: The new image should be “.jpg”

* Make a Client Update and the new images are now on your Interface.

To use this component you need to first add your images to the “slideshow” folder.
Then you need to edit content.xml to add paths to each image and set the delay of appearance for each image individually. Below is the XML structure:

Delay is defined in ms (1000ms = 1 sec)

To use this component you need to first add your thumbnail and large images to the “news” folder.
Then you need to edit content.xml in the “news” folder to add image paths and copy text.
Here is the XML structure:

To set the title of this page see attribute Name. The Thumb and Large attributes are for the image paths.
To set headline and date see the relevant tags.
In the copy tags you can set your news article copy for the intro and full article and set the text which appears under the large image.
This copy is HTML formatted so you can set text colour, size and decoration and add hyperlinks using standard HTML tags.

To use this component you need to first add your MP3 tracks to the “mp3_content” folder.
Then you need to edit playlist.xml to add paths to each MP3 and set the track name. Below is the XML structure:

To add a thumbnail image change Thumb attribute.
To set the title of the track change attribute Title.
The Path attribute is to set the MP3 path.

Tip: It is better defreezing client pc’s once and loading the skin, so that mp3 tracks will be stored directly in each pc.
The result will be faster loading time of Smartlaunch Client Application.