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Igloo Home and any supporting Igloo Core Software releases are still in development. Anybody with early access to these builds should be aware that these builds may be unstable and may include some untested functionality. Please only install under guidance from an Igloo representative.

A database is used to store all links to content and applications which can be launched from Igloo Home. A single database record corresponds to a single item of content, e.g. movie or panorama.

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The Content node in the Properties tree view contains a search box and a list of quick searches of scene templates, records by content type, records by associated tag name, and by scene/layout:

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The number of records in the database for each quick search is shown in brackets after the search name, e.g. the screenshot above indicates that there are 60 records with content type ‘panorama’ in the database. The free-text search box can be used to search by record id or by using a part of the record name, e.g. searching with ‘1' will return the record with id=1 and searching with ‘ford’ will return all records with ‘ford’ in the name. Pressing the column heading buttons will sort the records by that column. The button acts like a toggle to sort by ascending or descending order, i.e. press the ID button to sort by the record id in ascending order and press it again to sort in descending order.

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The Content management section has four subsections arranged in a 2 x 2 grid: Metadata, Files, Thumbnail, and Tags.

Metadata section

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Save - update the database with the record’s data

[Saving] - As you edit content in the content management section all changes will be saved automatically.

New - create a new database record. This is useful for creating a new content link manually.

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Files section

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File name is the name of the file where the content is stored. This is used for content types: panorama, movie, external, capture, and bookmark. Location is the name of the folder where the content is stored.

Download from CMS- download the file associated with the content record. The link to download the file is given in the ‘source’ field. NB this field is currently using Google Drive id’s IDs to download content from the Igloo G-Drive.

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Tags section

Tags are text strings which that can be associated with a content record. This is useful when grouping records together and can be utilised in the Layouts to determine which content icons to display.

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The tag manager section shows two listboxeslist boxes: the left listbox list box is for tags which that are assigned to the content record and the right listbox list box is a list of all tags in the database. A new tag can be created by typing the tag string into the tag name input field and then pressing the ‘New tag’ button. The tag will appear at the bottom of the tag list and if selected can be assigned to the current content record by pressing the ‘<< Add’ button. The tag can be unassigned by selecting it from the assigned list and then press ‘>> Remove’. It can be deleted from the database by selecting it in the tag list and then press ‘Delete tag’.

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Igloo Realtime, .exe. This is a windows executable file which generates an input for the Warper in the External Application Inputs section of the Layers menu. For example, a Unity-based application, utilising the Igloo Unity Toolkit, will generate an input name of ‘UnityCam’ as shown below.

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NoteIgloo Home and any supporting Igloo Core Software releases are still in development. Anybody with early access to these builds should be aware that these builds may be unstable and may include some untested functionality. Please only install under guidance from an Igloo representative.