TDM4 - How to Configure Data Modification for Your Data Source

Introduction

TDM allows you to add external data sources, enabling the display of real-time information within your presentations. TDM supports the following external data sources:

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Instagram

• Yahoo Weather

• Office365 Calendar

• Google Calendar

• Flickr

• Yammer

• LinkedIn

• Exchange

• Power BI

• NS

• Axis (People Counter camera)

• HIKVision (People Counter camera)

• Amadeus

• Realworks

This guide explains how to configure data modification for a data source. Data modification allows you to replace specific values from a data source with alternative ones.

Example:
If a data source displays the value “Mon” for Monday, you can use data modification to automatically replace “Mon” with “Monday.”

Requirements

To configure data modification, you need:

• Administrator access to the TDM Designer

How to Configure Data Modification for Your Data Source

1. Log in to the TDM Designer with an administrator account:
   https://designer.tdmsignage.com

2. Open the Config Panel.
   

3. Select the tab called External Data.
   

4. Locate your data source and click the magnifying glass icon in front of it.
   

5. A pop-up window will open.
   Here, you can define which values you want to replace.

   Example:
   Replace the value “Apr” with “April” in the OpenWeather data source.

   Once the replacement values are entered, click the + icon to add them.
   You can define multiple replacements for a single data source.
   

6. Please note that it may take up to 5 minutes for changes to take effect, as TDM caches data source information.

Old value:

New value:

You have successfully configured data modification.
Repeat these steps if you want to modify additional values in your data sources.