Specifications

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iCOMPEL Digital Signage - User Guide (V9.0.3)

3.4.6.6 Ad hoc properties

The following properties may apply to directly entered text, Newsfeeds, Radio, TV and Tables that are set to be

Customizable or Ad hoc.

Item type

Click the Save Changes and change Item Type button to save any existing changes to the Item and to navigate to a

page where it is possible to change the Item's type.

The options are:

Fixed to the value specified by the Layout Designer

Customizable

Ad hoc (with the option to create a new Ad hoc from the existing Item if so desired).

Ad hoc Entry

The Label used by the Layout's Ad hoc Page to refer to this item.

Ad hoc Item Name

Uniquely identifies an Ad hoc Item on the iCOMPEL.

Customization Scope

For directly entered text the option exists to be Ad hoc From Center which means that in a Channel, changes made on

the Publisher iCOMPEL to this Item's override value will be applied to each Subscriber iCOMPEL as well.

Customization Status

Indicates if this Item is currently displaying its default value or if it has been overridden by an Ad hoc User.

Used by Layouts

Lists the Layouts that use this Ad hoc Item.

NOTE: Ad hoc Item Name and Used by Layouts are only available to Ad hoc Items that are not Customizable Items.

3.5 Playlist Commands

The following commands can be used to alter what is playing:

Rendezvous Point and Advance To commands

Change Layout command

3.5.1 Rendezvous Point and Advance commands

Each Playlist is a sequence of items that operates independently. Even if two Playlists have a sequence items of exactly

equal lengths you cannot rely on the display between different Zones to be completely synchronized. Instead, the

iCOMPEL offers a manual synchronization mechanism using Rendezvous Points and Advance To (Rendezvous Point)

commands.

When an Advance To command is encountered in the playlist, the command is passed on to either all Zones or a single

specified Zone in the current Layout. If the receiving Zone (or Zones) contain the Rendezvous Point name, then the playlist

immediately starts playing from the item immediately following the Rendezvous Point entry. If a Playlist does not contain

Rendezvous Point, the command is ignored.