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iCOMPEL Digital Signage - User Guide (V8.1.1)

5.2 Ad hoc Item types

Additional Ad hoc features allow for increased customization of Layout content, which are especially useful in a Channel

Using Additional Ad hoc features, an iCOMPEL that is subscribed to a Channel can show quite different content to any

other subscriber. This allows an organization to maintain their corporate branding across a number of sites while allowing

local users to upload their own content and significantly alter the Layouts and Playlists they have been given access to.

The content types that can used with Additional Ad hoc features include:

Folder Play

Layout

Schedule

Schedule Override

Advance to

Ad hoc Layouts allow the Ad hoc user to select the Layout that they want to see during a particular time slot in the

Schedule. An organization could, for example, publish a Channel that has one Layout per Department and an Ad hoc user

in each Department can set the iCOMPEL to show only the Layout meant for their Department.

An Ad hoc Schedule allows the Ad hoc User to set the time when a Layout should appear on the Display. If, for example,

a lunch hour Layout has been scheduled, but lunch hour occurs at different times at different locations, then Ad hoc users

at each location can set their time accordingly.

An Ad hoc Schedule Override allows the Ad hoc User to force one of a selection of pre-defined Layouts to appear on the

Screen and not be interrupted by other Layout changes in the Schedule. This can be used to show a special TV event or an

emergency message and not have it interrupted by more mundane information.

Ad hoc Advance To

Ad hoc Advance To allows an Ad hoc user to make certain things happen on demand, for example showing content. For

more details on the Advance to command see Synchronizing Playlist displays between Zones . An example of where

this might be useful is in a foyer where an iCOMPEL is showing a corporate video in a continuous loop, but can be made to

switch to live TV by a local Ad hoc user.

To set up a Ad hoc Advance To command follow these steps:

1. Set the User Interface Policy to Detailed or Expert on the UI Options page.

2. Select the Layout and Zone where you want to add the Advance To command.

3. Select the Specials tab, and add a new rendezvous point to the Playlist.

4. Add one or more default media items to the Playlist.

5. Under the Specials tab, select the Advance To item that has the same name as the rendezvous point you created in

the previous step and add it to the Playlist. This forces the Playlist to loop back to the start again, regardless of what

may follow.

6. Add another rendezvous point to the Playlist.

7. Add the on-demand media item/s to the Playlist.

8. Add the Advance To item that has the same name as the second rendezvous point to the Playlist. This forces the

second sub-playlist to loop continuously. Leave this step out to revert back to the default media item.

9. On the Ad hoc Items page, create an Ad hoc Advance To Item and select the names of the two rendezvous points

you have created.

10.Add these items to an Ad hoc Page.

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