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Scheduling Events

Asked by Missy Climax

My company is currently using Magic Info by Samsung for our digital signage. I am testing Xibo to propose that we change to this system. I'm sure my confusion with scheduling in Xibo is due to how I'm used to it working in MagicInfo. Every weekday we have a company mission PowerPoint Presentation showing from 07:00 to 16:00. Then at 16:00, it switches to a traffic web page and ends at 19:00. First, can you tell me how I can schedule these two events to run at these times for the the entire month? I'm not sure if I should be using the start end date and time field, or the repeats field or both.

Also, to confuse things even further, we will have guests who visit the company. When this happens, a welcome sign is created and scheduled during the time of their visit. So then the schedule for the day is modified to accommodate the new welcome visitor event.

I would like to know how I can set up the entire month with the standard two events mentioned above, and still be able to schedule the occasional welcome visitor event in the middle of the preset schedule, without interrupting the entire month. I don't need all events to show at the same time. It would be the company mission pptx., then at whatever time the visitor is present, their sign will display, then at 16:00 the traffic web page.

I apologize if my explanation is confusing.

Thank you for your time.

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

Hi

Firstly create your two layouts. Set the duration of your PowerPoint item to be the amount of time it takes to play right through the presentation once. On the second layout, set the duration of the webpage media to be the minimum amount of time you want to show the traffic report for before moving to another layout (say 120 seconds).

Then schedule your PowerPoint layout as follows:
Start 15/11/2010 07:00
Finish 15/11/2010 16:00
Repeat Daily
Repeat Until 30/11/2010

That will give you your PowerPoint 07:00 - 16:00 every day between Monday and the end of the month.

Then schedule your traffic layout as follows:
Start 15/11/2010 16:00
Finish 15/11/2010 19:00
Repeat Daily
Repeat Until 30/11/2010

That will give you your traffic 16:00 - 19:00 every day between Monday and the end of the month.

Now if you have visitors, there's two scenarios and you don't say which you want to happen.

If you want just their welcome sign to show from 07:00 - 16:00 and not show your PowerPoint at all, then do this:
Start 17/11/2010 07:00
Finish 17/11/2010 16:00
Repeat None
Priority Ticked

That will add an event to the schedule which will override all others (priority is ticked) so from 07:00-16:00 on 17/11 you'll get your welcome sign layout alone.

If you want to show the welcome sign as well as your PowerPoint then make exactly the same schedule, but don't tick the Priority box. The client will then switch between PowerPoint and Welcome sign from 07:00-16:00

Alex

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Missy Climax (mclimax) said : 		#2

HI Alex,

Thanks so much for your response. I think this solution is going to do it for me. I will test it right now and post my results. Thanks again!

Missy

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Mike Dibble (dibblm) said : 		#3

 Alex. This is greatly detailed and we all appreciate this. However I once read that you could schedule right downt ot he second ?

 Can you also modify your answer to include the following. Say you wanted to display the time (for 30 seconds.) Once every 15 minutes or so.

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#4

You can't schedule to the second. What you'd do is schedule the clock at the same time as your other layouts and it will mix itself. If it comes up too often, make your other layouts last longer to compensate.

Alex

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