Showroom Web Station
Skills
Macromedia Director (now Adobe), including Lingo programming (with 3rd party Xtras comprised of Tabuleiro’s Web Xtra, Magic Modules’ Buddy API, XtraNet, and Integration New Media’s V12 Database Engine), and JavaScript programming
Summary
The Showroom Web Station (SWS) replaced the legacy Automark touch screen kiosk product. The SWS allows Automark to maintain a dealer’s kiosk inventory in-house rather than rely on error-prone data transfers. The SWS is easily downloadable thanks to a small footprint. Upon installation, it automatically searches out existing legacy kiosk applications and creates launch buttons on the fly for those that are not data-driven.
The SWS establishes an FTP connection to download custom GUI elements and sets the dealer’s homepage based on a unique ID.
The dealer may customize an IE-like Favorites folder and further control which of the non-data-driven apps are displayed. The SWS provides secure Internet connectivity (keeps customers from closing the application or wandering to inappropriate non-dealership websites); dealer may override these restrictions with a unique password.
