PostalMate Sidebar and Twinview - PC Synergy

PostalMate Sidebar and Twinview

TechNote #212. Rev. 07.31.2014

The PostalMate Sidebar is a dockable window that contains one or more useful ¡°gadgets¡± that you can

choose from. The Sidebar is designed to occupy the extra space available on widescreen monitors, and/

or appear on separate customer-facing monitors.

PostalMate and Sidebar scaled up 50% , on a widescreen monitor set to a 1600 x 900 resolution.

A glance at how the Sidebar works...

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There are six pre-defined gadgets, plus you can customize your own for

displaying graphics and/or web content.

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Gadgets can be resized and repositioned on the Sidebar as desired.

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Gadgets can be undocked from the Sidebar and dragged to any place on

the screen¡ªor even to a second customer-facing monitor. The Sidebar

itself can be docked or undocked with PostalMate.

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For customer-facing monitors you can enable the ¡°Twinview¡± feature on

custom gadgets, This displays marketing or other graphics normally, then

PostalMate/POS screens during transactions.

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You can show or hide the sidebar on the fly (pressing Ctrl + S is one way).

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The Sidebar automatically scales up or down with PostalMate.

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Launching and setting up the Sidebar

1. Select Tools > Show Sidebar from either PostalMate or the POS Register main menu, or in

PostalMate press Ctrl + S on your keyboard.

2. Set up custom gadgets (Optional): From the Sidebar menu, choose Tools > Settings.

To add a gadget for web content,

click Add. Type in a short name for

the gadget and enter the web

address (URL) for the content to be

displayed. Click the ¡°Twinview¡±

box if desired . Click OK.

To edit the Slideshow

graphics, highlight

Slideshow and choose

Edit. Browse to the folder

containing the images you

wish to display. This can

be any folder on your

system.

Place a checkmark

here and the Sidebar

will automatically

launch when opening

PostalMate.

See page 4 for

information

on Twinview.

Predefined Gadgets:

Custom Gadgets:

? Calculator: A simple on-screen calculator

? Slideshow: Displays one or more images

for any purpose.

? Converter: A full-featured conversion tool

that converts world currencies, weight,

length, volume and more, from one unit of

measure to another.

? PC Synergy Twitter and Facebook feeds:

Keeps you abreast of the latest tweets and

posts from us.

from the specified folder on your system. If

you have a customer-facing monitor, this is

a great way to display graphics-based

marketing messages (provided by you).

? Web content: You can add one or more

gadgets of your own that display the web

content of your choosing. These gadgets

can also use Twinview.

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Click here to access a

library of free

downloadable

marketing graphics.

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3. Select which gadgets to display. At the top of the Sidebar, click on the corresponding

buttons to show or hide gadgets. You can make your selections from the ¡°View¡± menu.

4. Position the Sidebar and gadgets.

5.

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Drag the Sidebar into whatever position you like. It can ¡°snap¡± to either side of

PostalMate¡¯s main screen, or to an edge on the monitor. You can also adjust the

size of the Sidebar by dragging its edges.

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To position a gadget, click on its title bar and drag it. If you have two or more

gadgets in the Sidebar you can change their relative sizes by putting your cursor

between them and dragging.

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You can undock gadgets from the Sidebar, and drag them anywhere, even to a

second monitor. This is especially useful when using Twinview (See ¡°Twinview¡±

on the next page).

Once you have the Sidebar set up to your liking, from the Sidebar menu choose Tools

> Save current layout.

Use these buttons

to open a

gadget.

Choose File > Save to

save your changes.

You can choose

which gadgets are in

the Sidebar, and

their relative sizes

and positions.

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You can drag a

gadget out of the

sidebar as desired.

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Twinview

If you have a separate customer-facing monitor, the custom gadgets can be set to display

PostalMate and/or POS screens during transactions. This is called ¡°Twinview.¡± You can

decide which transaction screens will show. Simply turn on Twinview and drag a gadget

from the Sidebar onto the second monitor and size it accordingly.

Note: Using Twinview requires a dual-monitor video card or dual video outputs. A video ¡°splitter¡±

cable will not work for this feature.

Twinview Setup using a slideshow in-between transactions.

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From the Sidebar, choose Tools > Settings.

Select a custom gadget, such as Slideshow. Choose Edit.

Browse to the folder path you wish to display.

Check the box for Twinview: Show PostalMate/POS during transactions.

Click OK to save.

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In Sidebar Settings, choose the Twinview button.

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Un-check any screens you

wish to not display on the

customer monitor. For

example: You may not

wish to display your

customer ¡°address book¡±

on your customer display

monitor.

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Twinview continued..

Marketing graphics for PostalMate Sidebar

We¡¯ve put together a library of free downloadable marketing graphics. Some examples are shown on

the following page.

To download some or all of the graphics:

1. From the workstation that will have the display, open the PostalMate Sidebar

(from PostalMate¡¯s main screen, press Ctrl+S, or from the menu choose Tools

> Show Sidebar).

2. From the Sidebar menu choose Tools > Settings.

3. Select the ¡°Slideshow¡± gadget, and click Edit.

4. Click on the ¡°Download Slideshow graphics¡± link, which opens a special page

on the PC Synergy website. (Leave the Sidebar Gadgets settings screen open.)

5. Select which format corresponds with your second monitor¡ªwidescreen or

non-widescreen.

6. Download whichever images you¡¯d like to use (or if you want to download all

of them you can).

7. Put the images in any folder on the computer¡ªwe suggest creating a folder

under ¡°Pictures.¡±

8. From the Sidebar Gadgets setting screen, browse to the folder where you put

the downloaded images, and click OK. Then click OK to close the Sidebar

Settings screen.

9. Make sure the Slideshow gadget is enabled in the Sidebar. If it isn¡¯t already,

just click on the Slideshow icon at the top of the Sidebar.

10. Drag the Slideshow gadget from the sidebar onto the second monitor.

Samples from the graphics library are shown on the next page.

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