It may sometimes be necessary for the design scheduled in Splash to interact with additional files. For example, an HTML design could display images taken from photo booths set up near the digital billboard. Such files could be streamed directly from the Internet via the HTML design, but for large files or slow connections, it can be useful to have the player load these files ahead of time.
Forward and Store allows designs to be linked to sources available via FTP. The player downloads any file within the designated folder. These files will be accessible locally on the player.
Whenever the files change on the FTP server, the player will fetch the updated data. The design will then be able to make use of the files.
For example, if an HTML page needs to reference the image Photo001.jpg and the Player Target Folder Name is set to BothPhotos, then the HTML file can gain access it with the URL BoothPhotos/Photo001.jpg.