Specifications

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Understanding Media Types

If you wish to store a page in this way, you must select the Web page, complete option from the Save as command in

your web browser, to make sure you store not only the web page but also all its associated files. Your web browser creates

a folder that contains any images, script files, or data files used by the page. This folder has a name in the format

[pagename]_files, where [pagename] is the name of the HTML page.

You must upload both the HTML page and the associated _files folder to the iCOMPEL in order to display a stored page.

To add a stored HTML page to a Playlist, follow the steps for adding Media item files to a Playlist. After you add the

HTML page file, it appears on the Playlist. Use the Edit button to view and adjust the HTML page file properties as

necessary.

Auto-refresh

Some web pages are designed to auto-refresh. In these cases, the web page tells the iCOMPEL browser to reload the page

at regular intervals. Pages that auto-refresh can be added to a Playlist with an indefinite duration and you can be sure that

they always show the latest information.

Pages that do not auto-refresh may show out-of-date information and need to be reloaded periodically. To do this, add the

pages to a Playlist with a fixed duration, as this forces the iCOMPEL to reload the page periodically.

You can determine whether a page is designed to auto-refresh by examining the HTML code for the page and searching for

the following HTML tag:

3.4 Media item properties

There are different Playlist properties for each type of media item. To edit the properties for a Playlist item, click the

Edit button alongside the item.

Properties that only apply to one type of media content are included in the main topic for that type of content. Properties

that are common to several types of media content are described here.

For details of Playlist properties for each item type, see the following sections:

Text properties

Newsfeed properties

Movie properties

HTML properties

Image properties

Audio properties

Clock properties

Folder Play properties

Duration properties

Position and Size properties

Partial display of movie

Opacity

Time validity

Conditional Play

Ad hoc properties