Content Manager Desktop (CMD).
Our Content Manager Desktop (CMD) allows you to build, deploy, and maintain your Visual Communications network in a rich desktop environment. With a drag-and-drop interface, built-in layout editor, and multiple deployment methods, CMD is an intuitive system that enables you to leverage your current content to quickly get your digital signs up and running. It seamlessly connects to the FWI Cloud to support large, multi-user networks—enabling a true enterprise solution.
CMD integrates advanced functionality into your digital signage network without the need for a designer or developer.
- Multiple content channels make it easy to change sign scenarios
- Versatile sign deployment: static signs, interactive signs, desktop players and browsers
- Use over 50 transitions to switch between pieces of content or pages of data
- Reports functionality back to Content Manager
- Standalone applications for various situations—like network outages
Supported content types.
FWI’s CMD and CMW support most common image, video, and live data formats, as well as Microsoft Office formats. Acceptable Live Data formats include XML, RSS, Atom, JSON, SQL, Excel, and many more. Supported content types include:

Bing Maps
Dynamically display maps from Microsoft Bing servers.

Content Feed
Show individual content items from a third party content fee.

Control Pad
Build an onscreen keyboard, custom input dialog, keypad entry and much more.

Date/Time
Display your local date and time or choose to show other location information.

Excel
Leverage Microsoft Excel documents with file formats of XLS or XLSX.

Feed
Dynamically show content downloaded from standard RSS feeds.

Flash
Exhibit Adobe Flash and output using SWF or FLV files.

HTML
Show individual content items from a third party content feed.

Image
Display image file types such as: JPG, JPEG, PNG (static and sequenced), BMG, GIF, TIGG and TGA.

Live Data
Leverage content from an external data source, including XML/RSS feeds, JSON feeds, Excel spreadsheets, SQL databases and other data management systems.

Live TV
Stream Live TV from any unencrypted television signal.

Exhibit an Adobe Acrobat or PDF file.

PowerPoint
Show documents built within Microsoft PowerPoint with file formats of PPT or PPTX.

Progressives
Dynamically display information powered by the FWI Progressive Jackpot Server via a MeterData.xml file.

Text
Create standard text directly in Content Manager to present on your network.

Video
Leverage video media files such as: WMV, MPG, MPEG, MP4, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, M2V or single 4K video. MP4 is the recommended standard.

Wayfinding
Draw and display interactive or static maps that can be overlaid with paths, directions & locations.

Weather
Show weather dynamically downloaded from NOAA servers.

Word
Display documents created in Microsoft Word with file formats of DOC, DOCX, RTF or ODT.