Specifications

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iCOMPEL Digital Signage - User Guide (V9.0.3)
Explanation of the settings
Name
Description
Channel Name
This is the identifier for the Channel and will appear at the top of the page in the Subscriber and
Publisher iCOMPEL when that Channel is active. You can type in anything here - a brief
description of the channel content would be very useful for reference.
Publishing Mode
Manual: the user will publish the Channel from a Channel publishing page
or
Automatic: the Channel will be published at specified time every day (The Channel must be active
to allow automatic publishing).
Channel Server
This radio box lets you select how the channel is published.
Option
Description
The iCOMPEL /channel/N folder
The Channel is published to a folder within the
publishing iCOMPEL. Subscribers can then access
the content via FTP, HTTP or HTTPS.
The USB Flash Memory's /channel folder
The Channel is published to the folder /channel on
a USB storage device attached to the publishing
iCOMPEL.
FTP Site
Channel content is uploaded to an FTP site. You will
need to enter any username and password that you
have for this.
Publishing Root URL
If you are publishing via FTP, then this text box will be enabled for you to enter the address and
subdirectory for the server. A valid FTP URL begins with ftp:// followed by the host name or
address followed by the full folder path in which to place the Channel contents. Examples of valid
FTP URLs:
ftp://example.com/mychannel/
ftp://192.168.0.23/channel/
ftp://somehost/a/b/c/
The publishing iCOMPEL will attempt to create the relevant folders on the FTP server if they do not
exist, but this will fail if the login name and password do not have the appropriate write access for
this server.
Authentication
If publishing via FTP, you need to select whether the destination server requires authentication or
not. If it does, then you should select the Login with option and enter the username and
password.
Error Retry Interval
If you are publishing the Channel via FTP and the iCOMPEL fails to connect to the FTP server,
then the iCOMPEL will wait for this period of time before trying to publish again. You can set the
days, hours, minutes and seconds between attempts.
Layout Zone Limit
Optionally, you can limit the number of Zones in any published layouts. If this is set then you will
not be allowed to publish any layouts containing more Zones than this value.
This setting would be useful if, for example, you were publishing to a number of less powerful
subscribing iCOMPEL players and wanted to ensure you will not overload them.