Election Results Dates
Elector is designed to preserve your election data from election to election and can display previous election data in various graphs. Legacy election data is manually added to Elector to help provide the context needed for Flow to display the graphs. The Elector Player can support and access existing legacy election results data available in the database. You can configure the player to discover election dates directly from the database.
- Select File > Election Dates.
- Select the Discover Dates From Database option.
- Manually enter Previous Election Dates, if known.
- Select OK.
Tab Setup
The Elector Player is customizable and you can determine what tabs are visible in the interface.
- Select File > Tabs Setup.
- On the Tab Controls Setup dialog, you can:
- configure and show up to four (4) playlists. See Multiple Playlist Tabs below for further details.
- show or hide the Fullscreen Scenes Tab and the Show Boxes Group on that tab
- show or hide the Name Keys Tab
- Show or hide the Show Tickers Tab as well as define which groups appear on that tab.
- Configure the Elector Player as needed and click OK to save your changes. Configuration changes are applied immediately.
Player Preferences
On the Preferences dialog, you can configure the following global output settings. Configure these settings as needed and press OK to save your changes.
Enable or disable the player to group non-main parties as OTHER
Enable the player to fade or animate on hiding output
Enable the player or fade or animate off
Multiple Playlist Tabs
You can configure the Elector Player with up to four (4) playlist tabs.
Multiple playlist tabs allow you to set up a number of ready-to-use playlists and individual scenes for broadcast. For example, you may want one playlist tab to include only overview graphs, one for a specific region's playlist of ridings, and one playlist tab for a specific riding, where the forth playlist tab could be a catch-all where the operator will choose a playlist on the fly during broadcast.
In addition to being able to custom-name your playlist tabs, you can switch between those playlist tabs quickly using the mouse or keyboard. Each tab is assigned a shortcut key for easy access. Hover over each tab to see its assigned shortcut key.
On each playlist tab, you can configure the following independent options:
Option | Details |
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Auto-refresh Playlists every x seconds | Specifies how often the playlist automatically refreshes, in seconds.
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Hide Thumbnail/Info Tabs | Select this option to hide the Thumbnail and Info tabs. Clear this option to display the Thumbnail and Info tabs.
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Play every x seconds | Specifies how often the playlist displays each scene in seconds.
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Loop to first item at end | Select this option to configure the player to loop the output the scenes in the playlist. Clear this option to configure the player to stop output when it reaches the last scene in the playlist.
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Hardware Setup
The Elector Player offers a wide variety of hardware, output, and XPression configuration settings.
- Select File > Hardware Setup.
- Configure hardware settings as needed for your environment as detailed in the following table.
- Click OK.
All available options are shown in the Hardware Setup dialog regardless of what tab configuration is set for the Election Player. For example, if the player is currently not displaying the Name Keys Tab, Name Keys hardware configuration options will continue to be available anyway.
| Configuration Option | Details |
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| Fullframe Scenes Framebuffers | |
| Fullframe Scenes Layers | |
| Lower Third Framebuffers | |
| Lower Third Layers | |
| Name Keys | |
| Playlist Layers | |
| Playlist Framebuffer Type |
Headshots Cache
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