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Releases: flex-development/dbktv

MVP Project Shutdown

15 Nov 23:58
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Overview

New Features
Upcoming Changes

New Features

Due to changes by an outside lab team, the original Firebase project for DBKTV has been shut down.

This release removes Firebase from the project, and puts mock data in its place.

Additionally, this release includes a mobile friendly version of DBKTV and config files for Netlify CMS.

Documentation: Netlify CMS

Upcoming Changes

This is project is no longer being worked on by Flex Development. Following this release, the project will be archived.

1.0.0 - DBKTV JSON

15 Nov 22:45
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Overview

New Features
Upcoming Changes

New Features

DiamondbackTV is a digital signage project with the goal of streaming specially curated Diamondback content - feature stories, multimedia, article previews, and advertisements - to various televisions on campus.

The current implementation contains for slide templates:

  1. News - Features a single article with a background image and longer article blurb
  2. Multimedia - Features a single image or video with an optional related article
  3. Articles - Features two article previews in the left rail, and at most two 300x600 advertisements
  4. Default - Displays the DiamondbackTV logo with "Continue reading on dbknews.com" beneath it

Workflow

DBKTV 1.0.0 uses Firebase as its Content Management System. The TV Team is meant to create the slide deck and ticker via json files that will be uploaded to Firebase Storage and the Firebase Database.

Documentation: TV Guide 1.0.0

Upcoming Changes

Mobile Site

Currently, the project is meant to be viewed on devices wider than 768px. A future update will add a mobile friendly site that displays a list of the slide and ticker content.

CMS Change

The Diamondback Lab team is working to set up a CMS for the News Team to use with DBKTV.