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multiple layout/media deletion.

Asked by Joshua Saylor

Hi, when we have an advertisement that needs to be replaced on multiple signs, we are having to go through each layout deleting the media and replacing it with the new advertisement. Is there a way (either through the xibo front end or through the database) that we are able to change a jpeg with the same duration on multiple layouts at the same time?

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

I'm afraid you can't through the frontend.

The idea is that you would have each of your adverts as a separate layout, and then schedule combinations of adverts to run at the same time. Then when you want to change an advert, you simply replace the content in the one layout.

If for some reason that's not possible, your only easy option would be to manually find the jpeg in the server library and replace it there. The consequence of doing that is that the file changing will cause the checksums on the clients to fail as the file doesn't match what the server thinks it should be. To get around that, you'll need to empty the md5 checksum field on that jpeg's record in the media table. The webservice will automatically calculate the new checksum the first time that new file is requested.

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Joshua Saylor (joshs) said : 		#2

Just a confirmation, we tried the workaround with server library and replacing the md5 and the file copied over with no issues.

Thank You again.