How do I edit an existing template?

When you create a bulletin, you can either upload it in its entirety and display it on Carousel’s display engine, or you can use a template that combines media into one message.

To create and edit these templates, we use Carousel’s Template Editor, which is available from the bulletin creation screen.



The Template Editor provides an interface to select a background and place message elements on the screen. Once the template is created from Carousel’s Media menu, you may access it when you create a standard bulletin.



The Template Editor is also used when creating certain dynamic bulletins and when changing the look of a bulletin that is being created. Like most things in Carousel, a template originates from a zone. Therefore, a template shares the dimensions of the zone it was created from and all of the pretty things that make that template up are placed within these dimensions.

Every template has a background. You can change that background when you are making a message, but the background that is associated with the template is the first choice that the user will see. In addition to a background, templates contain blocks, which are elements of
the message that may be placed on the template. Templates may have any combination of the following blocks:

• Text : Each text box has font, color, size and placement properties. Carousel will automatically wrap text as needed, provided that the area given to the text box is large enough to support additional lines of text.


• Picture : A picture contains a single graphic element, usually a PNG or JPEG file. Carousel will automatically resize the image so that it fills the provided area either horizontally or vertically. Carousel will maintain the picture’s aspect ratio, which means that it may not fill the entire area, if that area does not share the picture’s aspect ratio.


• Web Picture : A web picture is just like a picture, except that instead of loading an image into Carousel, you give it the web address of a picture. This is often used to display dynamic weather maps or traffic cameras.


• Video : Carousel can place a video clip into a block. Unlike a picture block, Carousel will stretch the video to fill the rectangle, regardless of the video’s original aspect ratio.


• Rectangle : Every element can have a backdrop and outline defined for its area. You may find the need to define a rectangle that is outside of any given element’s dimensions. In that case, you can use a rectangle block.

Once you have edited your template, select 'Save' to return to the previous menu.