Daktronics DakStats Baseball Software - Manual (Page 23)

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Section 6: Player Messages
Use player messages to add any number of informative notes about individual players that can be
sent as RTD to displays.
6.1 Creating Player Messages
1. Go to Configure > Player
Messages.
2. In the Player Messages
window (Figure 31), select
a Season and a Team.
3. Select a Player, and then
click Add New to create a
new message for the
player.
4. Type in a short Description
of the message.
5. Type in the message one
line at a time, using up to
26 characters per line.
6. Check Wrap Text if
desired to automatically
push longer words to the next line.
7. Choose Left, Center, or Right alignment for the text.
8. Click Delete to remove the message, or click Save to keep the message.
9. Repeat steps 2-8 to create as many messages as needed for each player.
6.2 Displaying Player Messages
To display messages for a specific player, users may set up a Quick Display button.
1. Follow steps 1-4c in Section 5.1.
2. In the Configure Quick Display Item window (Figure 19), enter the following settings
under the Request Parameters area:
 DSTI Port Name: Venus Request – Network
 Format: PlrMessages
 Nickname: Select either Home or Guest, or a specific team name.
 Number: Select the player’s jersey number.
 (Lastname): Select the player’s last name.
 Message#: Type in the message number to be displayed.
3. Click OK when finished.
At this point, a message request button for each player may be created, but a more effective
method would be to create a stats display page in Venus 7000 (Section 5.2). This way the user
can decide at the time the button is pressed which player and message to display.
Figure 31: Player Messages Window