Change history
Version | Revision |
V2.1 | Split screens, product selections, Bluetooth, international HTML5 mini-programs are supported. |
V2.0 | The International site (alibabacloud.com) is supported. The background sound can be controlled. The audio scheduling feature is available. |
V1.9 | The Japan site is supported. The Japanese language is supported. Logon by using the account system of a customer is supported. |
V1.8 | The description about how to change the language of the International Edition is added. |
V1.7 | The change history is added. |
V1.6 | Logon by using the account system of a customer is supported. |
V1.5 | The AI automatic inspection feature is available. |
V1.4 | The operations that are not performed by administrators are deleted. The operation guide is split based on roles. |
V1.3 | Store names can be automatically filled during content management. Manual store grouping is supported. QR code containers are supported in the orchestration workbench. The content scheduling feature is available. |
V1.2 | New features are available in the orchestration workbench. |
V1.1 | The orchestration workbench and multi-screen management feature are available. |
V1.0 | The administrator guide is published. |
1. Overview
1.1 Feature overview
This guide describes how to use the O&M features of Cloud Display as an administrator and covers the following aspects:
1. Available features in Cloud Display
2. Content delivery
3. New features planned for different roles
4. Logon using your account system
More features will be added based on customer requirements.
1.2 Editions and supported features
After you purchase Cloud Display offline, Alibaba Cloud operations staff configure the edition of Cloud Display that you purchased in the background. The International Edition of Cloud Display must be configured by Alibaba Cloud operations staff offline based on accounts and regions.
The following table lists the available editions and supported features.
Feature | Basic Edition | Standard Edition | Advanced Edition | Digital Store Edition |
Content management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | × |
Device management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | × |
Store management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
User management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Data reporting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
O&M management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | × |
Message center | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Orchestration workbench | × | ✓ | ✓ | × |
AI-powered automatic inspection | × | × | ✓ | × |
AI-based poster generation | × | × | ✓ | × |
Store information collection | × | × | × | ✓ |
Store inspection (outfit analysis) | × | × | × | ✓ |
2. Features available in Cloud Display
Cloud Display provides the following functional modules:
Device management
Store management
Scheduling management
Content management
User management
O&M management
Orchestration workbench
Feature description
Device list: allows you to manage the status of registered devices and query the basic information about devices.
Device grouping: allows you to group devices by policy.
Store management: allows you to manage the basic information about stores and associate stores with devices.
Content management: allows you to manage uploaded content based on libraries, transcode content, add tags to content, recognize pornography, violence, and terrorism content, and pre-process content for subsequent use.
User management: allows you to manage accounts and the permissions of the accounts.
Position management: allows you to configure the permissions of different positions, including the permissions on pages, features, stores, and data.
Advertising text management: allows you to manage the advertising text displayed as live comments.
Orchestration workbench: allows you to design and deliver templates.
3. Content delivery
To deliver content, you must perform the following operations:
Preparations: Create an Alibaba Cloud enterprise account on the China site (aliyun.com) or International site.
Management: Log on to the Cloud Display console and configure positions and accounts.
Store and store group settings: Configure stores, store groups, devices, and device groups.
Delivery: Upload content and configure single-screen scheduling or multi-screen scheduling.
Operation monitoring: Perform O&M on devices and view the data report.
If you use a personal Alibaba Cloud account to activate Cloud Display, you can use only the trial features and add up to 20 devices.
3.0.1 Create an Alibaba Cloud enterprise account
For more information about how to create an Alibaba Cloud enterprise account, see Create an account.
3.0.2 Activate Cloud Display
To activate Cloud Display, visit the following URL:
To activate Cloud Display on the China site, log on to the China site.
You can switch between the China site and the International site in the upper-right corner of the logon page.
To activate Cloud Display on the International site, log on to the International site.
Cloud Display is supported in the following regions:
All regions in the Chinese mainland
Japan (Tokyo)
Singapore
Indonesia (Jakarta)
Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)
If you want to log on by using a username and a password, you can use only an account issued by Alibaba Group or its associates.
You need to activate Cloud Display before you can use the service. We recommend that you log on as a RAM user.
Enter the information required for Cloud Display activation and contact the Cloud Display team for approval.
3.1 Log on to the Cloud Display console
The Cloud Display console supports logon by using an account or a mobile number. You can log on to the Cloud Display console as a RAM user or by using a verification code sent to your mobile number.
3.1.1 Log on to the Cloud Display console on the China site
3.1.1.1 Log on to the Cloud Display console as a RAM user
If you log on as a RAM user, the RAM user is configured to be an administrator by default.
3.1.1.2 Log on to the Cloud Display console by using a verification code
Enter your mobile number.
Enter the verification code that you receive.
Make sure that the mobile number that you enter is valid and can receive messages.
Enter the enterprise code that you obtain.
Click Verify.
3.1.1.3 Log on to the Cloud Display console by using an exclusive account
Enter the enterprise code to go to the logon page for exclusive accounts.
The following figure shows an example logon page.
The sample logon page is for reference only. The logon page that is provided by your enterprise prevails.
3.2 Configure positions
Click Platform to go to the General Settings page.
By default, the administrator and uploader positions are available.
An administrator has full permissions on features and data.
An uploader has only the permissions to upload content.
You can create a custom position.
You can customize the permissions on pages, features, and store data for a position. This helps you control the permissions of different users.
The uploader and administrator positions are default positions and cannot be deleted. By default, a RAM user is logged on to the Cloud Display console as an administrator.
3.3 Select a region for Cloud Display International Edition
1. In the upper-right corner of the Cloud Display console, select a site. For more information about the sites that are supported, see the following note. If you want to use Cloud Display on another site, contact the Cloud Display team. 2. Select a language. For more information about the languages that are supported, see the following note.
The features of content generation and data report in map mode are supported only on the China site.
The Cloud Display console supports the following sites:
China site
Singapore site
Japan site
The Cloud Display console supports the following languages:
Simplified Chinese
English
Japanese
3.4 Configure accounts
You can add accounts to Cloud Display by using Alipay. You can assign different positions to accounts.
Scan the QR code to add an account.
The China site supports two scan methods:
The mini-program in Alipay.
Mobile HTML5 page.
The Internation site supports the following scan method:
Mobile HTML5 page.
You can enable an account and assign a position to the account based on your business requirements.
Assign a position to an account.
You can assign only one position to an account.
3.5 Manage stores
You can add stores by calling the CreateShop API operation or using the Cloud Display console.
Use the Cloud Display console to add a store.
Choose Platform > Store management > Store List. The Store List page appears.
Click Add stores.
3.6 Manage store groups
You can create a store group by calling the CreateShopGroup operation or by using the Cloud Display console.
3.7 Manage devices
You can register a device with Cloud Display when you install the device. The device is automatically added to the preset device group without the intervention of operators or designers.
You can perform the following remote operations on a device in real time.
View the playlist of the device.
Capture a screenshot of the content that is being displayed on the device.
View a screenshot 10 seconds after it is captured.
Put the device to standby.
Wake up the device from standby.
Shut down the device.
Restart the device. Most playback exceptions can be resolved by a device restart.
Manually pair a Bluetooth device.
Bluetooth device pairing supports Bluetooth devices such as loudspeakers, tags, sensors, and sockets. The collected data is returned over Post Office Protocol (POP) from the devices.
Bluetooth device pairing is suitable for the following scenarios:
In-store loudspeaker control
Energy consumption data collection
In-store tag control
In-store sensor deployment
Bluetooth device pairing is a feature available in the Digital Store Edition. If you need to enable this feature, contact the Cloud Display support team.
You can edit the basic information about a device.
You can configure a device to automatically enter the standby state and wake up as scheduled or based on the open and close time of a store.
3.8 Manage device groups
You can group devices based on conditional policies. This way, new devices can automatically be added to device groups, start downloads, and display content.
You can create device groups by region, store tag, or device tag.
The default device groups supported are single screen, dual screens, triple screens, and quad screens.
After you perform the preceding operations, the preparations for content delivery are complete.
3.9 Manage content
When you upload content, the content is automatically transcoded in the background. Pornography, violence, and terrorism recognition is automatically performed, and tags are added to images. You can manage content by library and use third-party image libraries.
The content that you can manage by library includes images, commodities, links, texts, audio files, menus, and custom commodity images.
The capacity can be automatically scaled up based on the number of installed devices to prevent content management issues caused by insufficient capacity.
You can click an image to preview the content.
You can set the default content for playback.
You must select at least one image. Up to five images or videos can be selected.
By default, only videos and images are supported for the default playback.
You can manage content tags. You can configure tags when you upload content. You can create up to 50 custom tags for content in the commodity library by calling an API operation.
You can specify the validity period of an image. By default, images never expire. You can select the following category tags when you upload content: background, element, and commodity.
3.10 View a data report
You can view the device registration information, status information, and distribution information by store.
You can view the device types, device distribution, and content displayed on devices.
Data reports in map mode are supported only on the China site.
3.12 View notification messages
Cloud Display sends messages about events such as registrations and exceptions. You can mark messages as read.
3.13 Enable AI-powered automatic inspection
This feature is supported only by Cloud Display Advanced Edition.
Configure automatic inspection:
AI inspection: specifies whether to enable the automatic inspection feature.
Automatic screen recording: specifies whether to enable automatic screen recording. If you select this option, automatic inspection is performed every morning and afternoon.
Timed screen recording: allows you to specify the point in time when screen recording starts.
Screen recording duration: allows you to specify the duration of a screen recording.
3.14 Connect to your account system
To connect to your account system, perform the following steps:
1. Send the metadata file to the Cloud Display team.
Examples:
metadata:https://test03.testcompany.com/v1/test/saml/xxxxxxxxxxxxbabb/metadata
https://test03.testcompany.com/v1/test/saml/xxxxxxxxxxxxbabb/metadatis only for demonstration purpose. You need to provide your actual metadata file.
2. Receive the Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL and Service provider (SP) metadata URL that are returned.
Default ACS URL:
https://ls.aliplus.test/login/saml2/sso/lk-saml
SP metadata URL:
https://ls.aliplus.test/saml2/service-provider-metadata/lk-saml
lk-saml is only test code. In actual URLs, it is replaced with a six-digit code.
3. Configure the preceding URLs on the identity provider (IdP) configuration page in your account system.
