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@tech1 said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@dustinb3403 said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@scottalanmiller said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@bnrstnr said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
I'm being dead serious here, have you asked her if post-it notes would work? If she needs a reminder to tell the customer to have a good day or that toilet paper is 10% off, it seriously could be the correct solution. I have coworkers that have up to 10 post-its on the monitor, phone, etc. at any given time. We also use label makers to more permanently attach certain things like "Transfer * Ext = VM" right on the phone...
Maybe it is a ticker for her password, lol.
Just change her password to "Incorrect" so when she can't login the computer says "Your password is Incorrect."
Dad joke of the day.
Soon to be sir, soon to be.
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@dustinb3403 But it's his boss, and it's only for her... If she can't edit a txt/xml file, she likely wont be able to do anything else technical.
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@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@dashrender said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
If only Linux can be used.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/tickr-open-source-desktop-rss-news-tickerDid you miss the part where he didn't want an RSS feed because it might be to hard to update the XML file?
Yes, the end user says that is too complicated.
Would an RSS editor/creator be accepted?
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Also, Outlook recurring reminders are great, they have a little task bar deal that can be displayed too...
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@bnrstnr said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@dustinb3403 But it's his boss, and it's only for her... If she can't edit a txt/xml file, she likely wont be able to do anything else technical.
Which is why she needs to delegate the tasks, rather than attempting to manage it herself. As clearly she can't do this. She manages people, not technology.
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@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@dashrender said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
If only Linux can be used.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/tickr-open-source-desktop-rss-news-tickerDid you miss the part where he didn't want an RSS feed because it might be to hard to update the XML file?
Yes, the end user says that is too complicated.
Would an RSS editor/creator be accepted?
If it was simple enough for her to use, yes.
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@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@dashrender said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
If only Linux can be used.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/tickr-open-source-desktop-rss-news-tickerDid you miss the part where he didn't want an RSS feed because it might be to hard to update the XML file?
Yes, the end user says that is too complicated.
Would an RSS editor/creator be accepted?
If it was simple enough for her to use, yes.
What qualifies as "simple enough" ?
Changing a few words in a notepad document is as simple as it gets. . . .
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@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@dashrender said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
If only Linux can be used.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/06/tickr-open-source-desktop-rss-news-tickerDid you miss the part where he didn't want an RSS feed because it might be to hard to update the XML file?
Yes, the end user says that is too complicated.
Would an RSS editor/creator be accepted?
If it was simple enough for her to use, yes.
It was last updated in 2016.
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@dustinb3403 said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@bnrstnr, clearly we are looking for a technical solution to a procedural issue.
People are likely making their desks look like a child's play area, and the manager wants to stop it.
I get the impression this is for a machine like a Kiosk.
OP is that right?
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@dashrender said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@dustinb3403 said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@bnrstnr, clearly we are looking for a technical solution to a procedural issue.
People are likely making their desks look like a child's play area, and the manager wants to stop it.
I get the impression this is for a machine like a Kiosk.
OP is that right?
The use doesn't matter as much as the glaring issue that a technical solution being used, by someone who manages people, but doesn't want to do anything with the tech will not work.
It must be delegated, as she clearly isn't going to keep up with it, since she is apparently incapable of editing an XML file. ..
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@dashrender said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@dustinb3403 said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@bnrstnr, clearly we are looking for a technical solution to a procedural issue.
People are likely making their desks look like a child's play area, and the manager wants to stop it.
I get the impression this is for a machine like a Kiosk.
OP is that right?
Kindof... It's a status screen for another piece of software just to display the current status of what's going on in the hospital.
Something that would stay on top like below... Really this software that I found fits exactly what we want, but apparently isn't good enough because it doesn't use RSS.
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@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@dashrender said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@dustinb3403 said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@bnrstnr, clearly we are looking for a technical solution to a procedural issue.
People are likely making their desks look like a child's play area, and the manager wants to stop it.
I get the impression this is for a machine like a Kiosk.
OP is that right?
Kindof... It's a status screen for another piece of software just to display the current status of what's going on in the hospital.
Something that would stay on top like below... Really this software that I found fits exactly what we want, but apparently isn't good enough because it doesn't use RSS.!
What makes it not good enough? Who says it has to use RSS?
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@dashrender said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@dashrender said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@dustinb3403 said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@bnrstnr, clearly we are looking for a technical solution to a procedural issue.
People are likely making their desks look like a child's play area, and the manager wants to stop it.
I get the impression this is for a machine like a Kiosk.
OP is that right?
Kindof... It's a status screen for another piece of software just to display the current status of what's going on in the hospital.
Something that would stay on top like below... Really this software that I found fits exactly what we want, but apparently isn't good enough because it doesn't use RSS.!
What makes it not good enough? Who says it has to use RSS?
Obviously the boss, who won't manage the system.
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@jaredbusch said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@scottalanmiller said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
Not looking for RSS feeds, just custom text that she can manually input and would scroll at the bottom of the screen for employee's to see throughout the day.
RSS would be a good input method for that, though.
Yeah, he is not listening to a damned thing. the best thing to do would be to use an RSS ticker and just whip out a quick RSS formatted file someplace that can be edited.
Doing something custom on the machine is just stupid.
I posted long ago that I found a solution but JB was upset I didn't do RSS... Hence this thread going way out of control.
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https://zapier.com/apps/email/integrations/rss/1363/add-a-new-rss-posts-via-email
This could be an awesome solution for her. Setup an incoming RSS email address, anything from sender X gets added to the RSS feed.
Maybe coupled with https://www.open-tickr.net/
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@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@jaredbusch said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@scottalanmiller said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
Not looking for RSS feeds, just custom text that she can manually input and would scroll at the bottom of the screen for employee's to see throughout the day.
RSS would be a good input method for that, though.
Yeah, he is not listening to a damned thing. the best thing to do would be to use an RSS ticker and just whip out a quick RSS formatted file someplace that can be edited.
Doing something custom on the machine is just stupid.
I posted long ago that I found a solution but JB was upset I didn't do RSS... Hence this thread going way out of control.
If the solution you found is good enough for your boss, Screw @JaredBusch. Of course that said - when you boss comes back and wants you to roll this out company wide (or at least more than just one computer), You, the IT person will likely like the RSS solution to this.
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@dashrender said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@jaredbusch said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@scottalanmiller said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
Not looking for RSS feeds, just custom text that she can manually input and would scroll at the bottom of the screen for employee's to see throughout the day.
RSS would be a good input method for that, though.
Yeah, he is not listening to a damned thing. the best thing to do would be to use an RSS ticker and just whip out a quick RSS formatted file someplace that can be edited.
Doing something custom on the machine is just stupid.
I posted long ago that I found a solution but JB was upset I didn't do RSS... Hence this thread going way out of control.
If the solution you found is good enough for your boss, Screw @JaredBusch. Of course that said - when you boss comes back and wants you to roll this out company wide (or at least more than just one computer), You, the IT person will likely like the RSS solution to this.
I don't mind that. And I don't mind learning. It just seemed like someone's feelings were hurt.
Will the RSS feed stay at the bottom like the photo showing the one I found does?
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@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@dashrender said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@jaredbusch said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@scottalanmiller said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
Not looking for RSS feeds, just custom text that she can manually input and would scroll at the bottom of the screen for employee's to see throughout the day.
RSS would be a good input method for that, though.
Yeah, he is not listening to a damned thing. the best thing to do would be to use an RSS ticker and just whip out a quick RSS formatted file someplace that can be edited.
Doing something custom on the machine is just stupid.
I posted long ago that I found a solution but JB was upset I didn't do RSS... Hence this thread going way out of control.
If the solution you found is good enough for your boss, Screw @JaredBusch. Of course that said - when you boss comes back and wants you to roll this out company wide (or at least more than just one computer), You, the IT person will likely like the RSS solution to this.
I don't mind that. And I don't mind learning. It just seemed like someone's feelings were hurt.
Will the RSS feed stay at the bottom like the photo showing the one I found does?
That depends on the particular ticker. That it is RSS feeding it is just the standard format for feeding that kind of data. Doesn't need to be RSS, that's just a simple format commonly associated with this kind of thing.
But it is two different things, one is the ticker that displays something (generally RSS) and the RSS which is just a text file for populating list data.
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@scottalanmiller said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@dashrender said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@jaredbusch said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@scottalanmiller said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@ccwtech said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
@black3dynamite said in 'Ticker' at bottom of the screen:
Not looking for RSS feeds, just custom text that she can manually input and would scroll at the bottom of the screen for employee's to see throughout the day.
RSS would be a good input method for that, though.
Yeah, he is not listening to a damned thing. the best thing to do would be to use an RSS ticker and just whip out a quick RSS formatted file someplace that can be edited.
Doing something custom on the machine is just stupid.
I posted long ago that I found a solution but JB was upset I didn't do RSS... Hence this thread going way out of control.
If the solution you found is good enough for your boss, Screw @JaredBusch. Of course that said - when you boss comes back and wants you to roll this out company wide (or at least more than just one computer), You, the IT person will likely like the RSS solution to this.
I don't mind that. And I don't mind learning. It just seemed like someone's feelings were hurt.
Will the RSS feed stay at the bottom like the photo showing the one I found does?
That depends on the particular ticker. That it is RSS feeding it is just the standard format for feeding that kind of data. Doesn't need to be RSS, that's just a simple format commonly associated with this kind of thing.
But it is two different things, one is the ticker that displays something (generally RSS) and the RSS which is just a text file for populating list data.
Got it.
For this purpose it needs to be one that will sit on the bottom of the screen and sit between the task bar and a "Whiteboard" that will constantly change. Maybe this will help make sense.
That's why a post it won't work. It needs to allow the program to be up and running and scroll the text at the same time.
