Specifications

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Creating Digital Signage

2.1.2 Schedule entries

A Schedule Entry is a set of one or more actions for the iCOMPEL to perform at specified times. The actions that a

Schedule Entry can specify are displaying a Layout, switching a Screen on or off, switching Audio on or off, or

performing an Advance To command. Schedule Entries repeat over a weekly cycle. A program of Schedule Entries

make up a Schedule.

The first Schedule Entry, which is created automatically whenever you create a new Schedule, is the Default Schedule

Entry, and it does not have a start and end time. The Default Schedule Entry defines the default states for all the possible

actions including which Layout is displayed when no other Schedule Entry is active.

You can use Schedule Entries to create a complex sequence of actions, displaying different Layouts at different times of

the day and different days of the week, switching the display on and off, or repeating actions at specified intervals.

Example Schedule

In this example, the screen is turned on to show the Showroom Layout from 08:45 until 18:00 on Mondays to Fridays,

with the Active Layout (which may be a news broadcast) being shown every hour for 10 minutes. At all other times the

screen is turned off. This is achieved with a Schedule made up of three Schedule Entries.

Schedule made up of three Schedule Entries

In the first Schedule Entry, the defined actions have the screen turned off and the audio soundtrack muted. This Schedule

Entry is playing the Showroom Layout, even though the screen is off.

Details of first Schedule Entry

In the second Schedule Entry, the screen is on and the Showroom Layout is playing.