ahead intranet

With the «ahead intranet» app you connect your ahead intranet with revolutionSCREEN. New intranet news appears automatically on your screens.

Bring content from the ahead intranet to the screens without duplicate effort: as soon as new news appears in ahead, revolutionSCREEN picks it up. This keeps your staff informed across locations and countries, depending on the channel and stream settings and in the desired language.

This is how ahead intranet looks on the screen, examples from real use:

• An active revolutionSCREEN account with access to my.rstv.app.
• «ahead intranet» is a premium app (crown in the Appstore) and must be enabled for your account.
• An ahead account with read rights to the desired news.
• At least one configured screen.

In the sidebar on the left click «Apps» and at the top click «zum App-Store» (to the Appstore).

Scroll to the «Alle» (All) list and click the «ahead intranet» tile. Use the category buttons to narrow down the list.

The app's detail view opens. If it is not yet installed, first click «Installiere» (Install). Then click «Neue Instanz» (New instance). «App Guide» opens a quick guide.

Under «Apps › Meine Apps» (My apps) you see all instances of the app as tiles. Use «Neue Instanz» (New instance) at the top right to create another one, and click a tile to open an existing one.

In the editor, hover over the title and click the pencil to give the instance a name. A new instance shows «Kein Name angegeben» (No name specified) in red until then. At the top right you choose whether the preview appears in portrait or landscape format.

At the very top of the settings is «Zugang» (Access). For a new instance, sign in there with your ahead account. When the connection is active, it shows «logged in» with the name of the workspace. Use the pencil on the right to switch accounts.

On the left are all the settings, on the right you immediately see in the live preview how the instance looks on the screen. Use the arrow next to the card to collapse the settings.

• Zugang (Access): connected ahead account (status «logged in»).
• Logo: choose your own logo via «Bilder» (Images).
• Layout: arrangement of image and text, e.g. «Image Left, Text Right».
• Text / background color: colors for text and background. Use × to reset a color.
• Primary / secondary font: fonts for title and text.
• Language: language of the displayed news.
• Posts: number of news items shown.
• Duration: display time per post in seconds.
• Default image: replacement image when a post has no image of its own.
• Stretch image: fills the image area completely; images may be cropped in the process.
• Show channel / author / QR Code / Html: show or hide individual elements per post.
• Scrollspeed: speed at which longer texts scroll through, e.g. «Normal».

You reach the last fields by scrolling down within the card.

ahead intranet shows several posts one after another per instance. When you place the instance in a playlist or a layout, you use the element duration to define how long it runs. To do this, click the element's duration. This logic applies to all apps with multiple posts per instance.

In the «Elementdauer bearbeiten!» (Edit element duration) window, the toggle decides between two variants. It is usually called «pro Post» (per post), and for presentations «pro Slide» (per slide). Use «Confirm» to apply the setting.

Variant 1: toggle OFF (total duration)
The set time applies to the whole instance. Example 00:01:00: the instance runs for one minute. The posts cycle through in order during this time and start over if needed. So not all posts necessarily appear.

Variant 2: toggle ON (duration per post)
The set time applies to each post. Example 00:00:10 with 12 posts: each post appears for exactly 10 seconds, the instance runs for 2 minutes in total. In the list, «pro Post» (per post) or «pro Slide» (per slide) then appears below the duration.

Save the instance at the top right with «Speichern & Schliessen» (Save & close).

Add to a playlist: Open the playlist, select the «Apps» tab on the right, click the app and then the instance. The instance is added immediately.

Add to a layout: Open the layout and click the pencil at the desired section.

In the «Inhalt für Abschnitt bearbeiten» (Edit content for section) window, add the instance with «Inhalt hinzufügen» (Add content). On the right for each element you set the schedule via «Täglich» (Daily).

Then click «Veröffentlichen» (Publish) in the playlist or layout. As long as it says «Entwurf, Veröffentlichung erforderlich» (Draft, publication required) there, the screen still shows the old state.