Virtual Robot Content Organizer
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This page applies to 2017 onwards Tritium robots, for earlier Tritium robots please see Virtual Robot - Transferring Content, for IOServe based robots please see Virtual Robot - Transferring Content (IOServe)
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Introduction
Virtual Robot provides a simple to use but powerful web based tool for content creation on Engineered Arts robots like RoboThespian and SociBot.
The Content Organizer is used to arrange touch screen and Telepresence content, add button images and text labels; transfer new performances and synchronise updates to performances with your robot, even while the robot is switched off.
Accessing the Content Organizer
The content organizer can be accessed from the Robot Management System:
Serial number of robot - when robot is ONLINE this becomes a link. Click the link to open the robot's Tritium GUI
Status of robot - ONLINE / OFFLINE
Link to robot's content - click to open Virtual Robot Content Organizer
Tinman status - when robot has telepresence installed and is ONLINE, click here to access the Tinman Telepresence System
Content Organizer Overview
Virtual Robot Content Organizer is composed of 4 sections:
Files panel: performances in your Virtual Robot account
Robots panel: performances already on your robot or ready to sync to your robot
Properties panel (hidden by default): edit the Properties of performances and manage their appearance on the
File transfers and log: status of transfers
Files panel: Performances in Virtual Robot
Edit: open selected performance in Virtual Robot for editing. You can also double click a performance to edit it.
Delete: delete selected performance from Virtual Robot permanently
Transfer: transfers performance to the robot archive folder (rather than directly to the Touch screen or Telepresence interface)
Bulk Edit: easily edit properties of multiple performances
Duplicate: duplicate the selected folder and its performances. Duplicates are unique copies that can be edited without affecting the originals.
New Folder: create folders to organise content.
Performances are listed below, clicking on Name to sort by name
Last Saved: date or time (if today) performance was last saved. Click on Last Saved to sort by Last Saved.
Robots panel: performances already on your robot or ready to sync to robot
Edit: open selected performance in Virtual Robot for editing. You can also double click a performance to edit it.
Delete: delete selected performance from robot. Performance still exists in Virtual robot until deleted from Virtual Robot.
Sync: sync new or altered performances from Virtual Robot to the robot
, User's robots. Click the arrow next to a robot to show all the subfolders containing content on the robot.
Clicking the arrow again hides the subfolders. You can also double click on the Robot to expand / hide subfolders
File Transfers and Log
Shows status of current sync requests. Clicking on a robot to sync content to and pressing the Sync button adds a "pending" sync job to the File Transfers list.
cancel: cancel selected sync job
clear completed: remove completed sync jobs from the list
Status: pending / completed
Last Activity: date and time sync job was added if pending, or date and time completed
File: performance or folder being synced
Robot: Name (or location) of robot
Once the robot is online it will begin to synchronise. When the content has been transferred to the robot the Status will show as "completed".
Status: completed transfer of performance or folder
clear completed: remove completed sync jobs from the list
Log: logs actions carried out in Virtual Robot Content Organizer
Transferring content to Touch Screen kiosk - LIBRARY page
Example LIBRARY page showing on the touch screen:
In the Robots panel select the Robot you wish to transfer performances to.
Click the arrow next to the Robot you wish to sync content to. This shows all the subfolders containing content on the robot. (Clicking the arrow again hides the subfolders. You can also double click on the Robot to expand / hide subfolders)
Click the arrow next to 'touchscreen_ui' to show the subfolders for content in different languages on the Robot
Click the arrow next to 'en_GB' (for British English touch screen content) - if you have other languages installed they will appear here as well. This folder this contains all editable pages of the touch screen interface
Click the arrow next to 'Library' to show the Library content in the order it appears on the touch screen kiosk
Let's say you want to add a new performance to the LIBRARY page.
Select the performance you want to add in the Files panel on the left and drag it into the Library folder of the Robots panel on the right.
Drag selected performance from Files panel into the Library folder . A dialog box indicates how many performances are being dragged Green dotted line indicates which folder performance or folder is being dragged to
Add any other new performances in the same way.
Change order of performances in the Library folder by dragging performances around
Delete any performances in Library if no longer wanted.
Then sync the changes to the robot
Syncing content changes to robot
Transferred performance in library from example above
Sync symbol indicates items that will be synced (i.e. updated or transferred or re-ordered
Click Sync to add the sync job to the File Transfers list. Once the robot is online it will begin to synchronise. When the content has been transferred to the robot the Status will show as "completed".
Properties
Access the properties panel by clicking on the ">>" :
This opens the Properties panel:
- ID: unique ID number (can not be altered)
- Name:
- Label:
- Description:
- Icon:
- Limit Control:
- Exclusive:
- Loop:
- Robot Model: Robot model (can not be altered)
- Different icons can be slected to appear in tinman (telepresance) or on the touch screen kisok
To change icon click on the icon button
choose suitable icon from pre-existing list
- click on empty bar next to 'Icon' this will open Icons list
- Icons list
- click on chosen icon
note after making any changes in properties the robot will have to be 'synced'
(Clicking the "<<" symbol closes the properties panel)
Some useful shortcuts
- slow click folder or performance name to rename
- double click folder to open
- double click performance to edit
- click an arrow next to a folder to show / hide subfolders
- double click on a folder to show / hide subfolders
Troubleshooting
If you experience issues transferring content or with Virtual Robot in general please see Virtual Robot Troubleshooting