Playlist settings: every field
Reference for the playlist editor by section, schedule, SSP connector, more options, type parameters, content and targets.
The editor opens with «Create playlistA set of files with a playback schedule that is assigned to screens or networks.» or «Edit» next to a playlistA set of files with a playback schedule that is assigned to screens or networks. in the list. The type preview is on the left, the fields on the right. Numbers on the frames match the table rows. Changes apply only after «Save».
Name and schedule
No. | Field | What it means | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Name | PlaylistA set of files with a playback schedule that is assigned to screens or networks. name in lists and reports | «pl» and the creation date |
2 | Broadcast Period | Start and end date; outside the period the playlistA set of files with a playback schedule that is assigned to screens or networks. is not scheduled | Today, no end set |
3 | No end date | Removes the end date, only «Start date» remains; the playlistA set of files with a playback schedule that is assigned to screens or networks. plays until changed | Off |
4 | Action on end | What to do after the end date; visible only with an end date set | «Nothing» |
5 | Week Days | Days when the playlistA set of files with a playback schedule that is assigned to screens or networks. is active; an unselected day does not play even inside the period | All seven |
6 | Broadcasting Hours | Daily playback windowA zone of the screen (A to G) with its own size, position and playlists. from and to in HH:MM:SS | Depends on the account |
7 | Add second period | A second pair of hours for two slots a day | Off |
SSP Connector
No. | Field | What it means | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Activate | The playlistA set of files with a playback schedule that is assigned to screens or networks. requests ads from the source; its own files become filler | Off |
2 | Advertising providers | Ad source: Advision, Adtelligent or «Manual» | Advision |
3 | SSPSelling spare airtime to advertising sources: a playlist with SSP Connector receives ads automatically. ID | Source identifier on the SSPSelling spare airtime to advertising sources: a playlist with SSP Connector receives ads automatically. side, if the provider gave one | Empty |
More options
No. | Field | What it means | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Limitation type | «Timetable»: stops by the schedule dates; «Playbacks»: stops after a set number of plays across all screens | «Timetable» |
2 | Max content duration | Upper limit of airtime the playlistA set of files with a playback schedule that is assigned to screens or networks. files may take; «Timetable» only | Not set |
3 | Type | «FuzzyPlaylist type that loops all files during broadcasting hours; the background for other types.», «PeriodicPlaylist type that interrupts the background at a fixed interval, for example every 15 minutes.», «Floating», «BlockPlaylist type that occupies a continuous time block in which files play in sections.», «Loop itemPlaylist type whose file becomes every Nth item of the background playlist loop.»; see Five playlist types | «FuzzyPlaylist type that loops all files during broadcasting hours; the background for other types.» |
4 | Files Order | «Ascending», «Descending», «Random» or «One of» (one file per output, the next one next time) | «Ascending» |
5 | InfluencePlaylist field: Active goes on air, Passive is only stored. | «Active»: changes reach the screens right after saving; «Passive»: from the start of the next day | «Active» |
6 | Code | Third-party tracking pixel called on every play of a file from the playlistA set of files with a playback schedule that is assigned to screens or networks. | Empty |
Type parameters
The fields below appear in «Content Distribution» after you pick a type.
Type | Field | What it means |
|---|---|---|
«PeriodicPlaylist type that interrupts the background at a fixed interval, for example every 15 minutes.» | Periodicity | How often the playlistA set of files with a playback schedule that is assigned to screens or networks. is inserted into background content, for example every 15 minutes; re-check the value after editing |
«Floating» | Shows Count | Plays per day spread evenly across the broadcasting hours |
«BlockPlaylist type that occupies a continuous time block in which files play in sections.» | Commercial cycle duration, Section | BlockPlaylist type that occupies a continuous time block in which files play in sections. length and the sections inside it; files are pinned to sections, the rest of the blockPlaylist type that occupies a continuous time block in which files play in sections. is filled by a mandatory filler section |
«Loop itemPlaylist type whose file becomes every Nth item of the background playlist loop.» | Commercial cycle duration | Files are woven into the loop with different frequencies, so one file can play more often than another |
Content
No. | Field | What it means | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Upload files | Upload a file from your computer into «Media» and the playlistA set of files with a playback schedule that is assigned to screens or networks. at once | |
2 | Choose | Pick files from the media library or add a file by URL with a duration | |
3 | File list | Thumbnail, format, resolution, size, duration; list order = playback order with «Ascending» | Empty |
4 | File menu | «Inactive», «Set duration», «Override schedule», «Set config», «Remove» |
Targets
No. | Field | What it means | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Add device | Pick the screens that play the playlistA set of files with a playback schedule that is assigned to screens or networks. | None |
2 | Add wall | Assign the playlistA set of files with a playback schedule that is assigned to screens or networks. to a whole video wall | None |
3 | Save | Apply all editor changes; nothing changes until you click it |
Related articles
- ConceptFive playlist typesHow Fuzzy, Periodic, Floating, Block and Loop item share an hour of airtime on one screen.
- How-to · 3 minCreate a playlistName, period, days and hours, files and screens in three minutes. The playlist goes on air right away.
- How-to · 3 minSet the playback schedule: period, days, hoursBroadcast period, open-ended playback, week days, hours and a second daily period for an existing playlist.
- How-to · 3 minLimit the number of plays per dayA set number of plays spread evenly over the day with the «Floating» type, and an automatic stop after a total play count.