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☝🏼 Touch Monitor: Discover More

Discover More turns one area of a project into a button that brings up a hidden layer with more detail, and puts it away on the next tap.

The screen plays an ordinary signage project, in this example a video playlist with a logo. One area of the design is turned into a button, here the DISCOVER CIRCULAR JOURNEY label in the bottom corner.

Tapping it brings up the hidden layer, in this example a single image telling the story of the product. Tapping the button again, or the GO BACK button, returns the screen to the playlist.

🎯 It fits retail and showrooms, where a passer-by decides in a second whether to look closer.

Two views of the same touch screen: a product page with a DISCOVER CIRCULAR JOURNEY button, and the hidden detail page it opens, which has a GO BACK button

🏗️ How to set this up​

Everything is built in the project editor, with no code involved. You need the Interactivity module enabled on your account.

  1. Create a project and lay out the design the way you want it.

    Project editor with the design of the product page laid out on the canvas

  2. Add the layer you want to bring up on top of the design. In this example it is an image layer holding the story of the product.

    Project editor with the detail image added as a new layer on top of the design

  3. Hide that layer: in the LAYERS list, click its 👁️ eye button. The layer stays in the project but does not show on screen.

    LAYERS list with the eye button of the Circular journey layer switched off

  4. Add the area people will tap. In this example it is a Shape layer placed over the button graphic, with Fill Opacity set to 0, so the area catches the tap without being visible.

    Shape layer selected on the canvas over the button, with Fill Opacity set to 0 in its attributes

  5. With that shape layer still selected, scroll down to its INTERACTIVITY section and set:

    • Click Interaction: Enable
    • Click Action: Show hidden layer
    • Target Layer: the layer you hid in step 3
    • Hide Target Layer Mode: On Click, so a second tap hides it again

    INTERACTIVITY section of the shape layer, with Click Interaction enabled, Click Action set to Show hidden layer, and the Circular Journey layer as target

    No INTERACTIVITY section?

    If a layer has no INTERACTIVITY section, the Interactivity module is not enabled on your account. Open a ticket from the Support section and we will switch it on for you.

  6. Open SETTINGS > TIMING and set Repeat type to Loop this project, so the project stays on screen instead of moving on to the next one.

    TIMING tab of the project settings with Repeat type set to Loop this project

  7. Schedule the project on the target device as its only project, then ☁️ publish it.

  8. ✅ Done. Anyone who taps the area you chose brings up the hidden layer, and taps again to put it away.

Interactive scenarios are set up with us

Touch navigation, API and socket triggers, and custom scenarios are configured for your account by the Voome team. Tell us what you want to happen on screen and we will put it together: book a demo if you are new to Voome, or open a ticket from the Support section if you are already a client.