Zone tags are keywords that describe a zone. Tagging zones can be important, especially in larger deployments, and should be discussed prior to any full-scale roll-out to determine your naming and tagging scheme.
Zone Tags
To add zone tags to a zone, navigate to Configure > Zones > Edit a Zone
In the Tags drop-down menu, add new or assign existing zone tags as needed
Viewing All Zone Tags
To view all zone tags, navigate to Configure > System > Zone Tags
Zone Tags Usage
1. Assigning User Permissions
As you add more users to your system to contribute content to your signage, zone tags allow you to quickly assign rights to a specific zone tag to give users access to particular zones.
Examples:
Regional Locations
Your company has signage in multiple locations around the region (North, East, South, and West Campus). Each location has 3 unique channels located in the lobby, the breakroom, and the elevator platform. Also, each regional location has multiple employees contributing content to these channels. In this example, if you tagged all of the North Campus zones with North Campus, you could easily assign rights to the North Campus zone tag for North Campus users, and they would then only see and have access to all of the zones on the North Campus.
If six months down the road, you add a new display in your North Campus with a new channel and tag those zones with “North Campus,” your North Campus users will automatically have access to the zones on the new channel without having to edit access rights.
Locations Within your facility
Your company has signage in the lobby, breakroom, and warehouse. You want the receptionist to be able to upload content to the lobby displays only. In this example, if the zones on the lobby channel were tagged Lobby, you could easily assign the receptionist access rights to the Lobby zone tag. The receptionist will only have access to the lobby zones, which means they can't see or access the breakroom or warehouse zones.
Three months later, you add another display to the lobby to run a video reel of recent projects and tag the zones on that channel with “Lobby.” Your receptionist would automatically gain rights to these zones without having to edit permissions.
2. Zone Filtering in Carousel Cloud UI
As your system grows, you will naturally have a much larger list of zones to scroll through to find the one you need. By using zone tags, you can easily filter the list of zones, which saves time and makes the experience with the user interface more efficient and organized.
Examples:
Specific Locations
Your company has digital signage in all buildings, and each building has its own channel. Example tags could be: Headquarters, Research and Development, and Mission Control. To create and publish a bulletin on a Headquarters zone, if tagged properly, you’d select the Headquarters tag, and the zone selector would filter from All Zones to Headquarters zones only.
Department
Your company has digital signage throughout the building, utilizing only 1 channel. On this channel, there are 4 zones, and specific departments maintain each zone: Human Resources, Training, Sales, and Support. When you need to create and publish a bulletin on the Training zone, if tagged properly, you’d select the Training tag, and the zone selector would filter from All Zones to Training zones only.
Shared Zones
Your company has digital signage across the nation with a channel at each branch. The channels are designed to have several local zones & 1 corporate zone. The local zones are used to display local branch content. These zones are unique at each branch and managed by branch employees. The corporate zone is shared on all channels and is managed by an employee at headquarters. When the corporate zone is updated with corporate messaging, it updates across all channels. Tags used in this scenario could be the branch location names (city name, street name, etc.), and for the corporate zone, the tag used could be named “Corporate” or “Shared” or the company name.