Xibo

Start and stop dates for content.

Asked by JohnGrunder

Suggestion: Xibo is a great tool, but the following enhancement would make it more friendly to maintain on an ongoing basis.

1. Add a start and stop date and time field to each content record, so that content items such as event flyers, etc. could be preloaded prior to an event, and then automatically unloaded after the event is finished. (Events as in company picknic or upcoming seminar, etc).

2. Add and Active checkbox field for each content record, so that content items could be kept in a region, but "turned off and on" if need be. This would be effective if the start and stop dates were not filled in (content begins imeadiately and has no stop date) but you wanted to upload and keep an emergency or annual anouncement (Happy Holidays, Don't Forget to Do Your Taxes, etc.).

The first response I got after I loaded Xibo was "who will maintain this on a daily basis to make sure event notices are not keep displaying after the event is over". I realize that you could probably create separate layouts for each event and use the scheduler to change layouts, but reloading layouts with mostly the same content each time would be quite time consuming. Allowing users to set content to start and stop inside of a layout region would avoid this.

Start and stop dates are different from durations, which define the amount of time that the content stays active before the next content in a region takes over.

I have added this suggestion as a blueprint. Not sure if I was suposed to do this.

Thanks, Xibo rocks! JG

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

Hi John

You're broadly describing content streams which should make it in to 1.1/1.2.

At present, the expected behaviour is that you would create a new layout for each time-sensitive item. I agree this is not ideal.

The dates/times however do not belong on the media item, since you might want to reuse it multiple times. With content streams, you effectively have a new media item that contains a sequence of date/time aware media items - which may be created by a user, group of users or possibly from tags attached to media items.

Content streams are described briefly here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/xibo/+spec/content-streams

If you subscribe to that blueprint, then you'll be notified as we update it!

Cheers

Alex

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#2

John

Forgot to say also you should be able to set a content stream as a user or group homepage - so you could setup a user who would just have access to ammend that one stream, which you can then reuse in multiple places. Should be a cool feature :D

Alex

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