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Ad hoc Content

5.1 Enhanced Ad hoc Access Control

Generating Ad hoc content is quick and easy. As a content designer, you can make specific content available for editing

by Ad hoc users, as it is created, in most cases simply by clicking a button.

Alternatively, you can work with an existing design and allocate content for Ad hoc access as required.

Whichever route you choose, the overall time taken for generating display content is minimized, displays can be up and

running quickly, and Ad hoc users can be working with the system productively with minimum delay.

Typical Ad hoc content includes:

Text items

Tables

Newsfeeds

TV channels

Folders

Automatic and Manual Ad hoc Modes

Automatic Ad hoc

Automatic Ad hoc makes creating content easier, as it eliminates many of the configuration and setup tasks. The Layout

automatically creates a single Ad hoc Page, which contains all Playlist Items in the Layout which are marked as Ad hoc.

As Ad hoc items are added to or removed from the Playlist in the Layout, they are automatically added or removed from the

Layout Ad hoc Page.

You have full control over Ad hoc Page properties, including which users are authorized to make changes. However, it is not

possible to add or remove existing Ad hoc Items, or to reference items marked as Ad hoc in different Layouts. This makes

automatic ad hoc unsuitable for cases where the same Ad hoc Item is to be used by multiple Layouts.

Automatic Ad hoc is the default setting for all newly-created Layouts. The setting is enabled from the Layout Properties

tab page on the individual Layout page. Click on the name of the layout on the Home page, and open Layout Properties in

the Layout page.

Manual Ad hoc

Manual Ad hoc gives you complete responsibility for creating and managing all Ad hoc Pages and Ad hoc Items within

them. You need to add Ad hoc Items to one or more Layout Playlist and one or more Ad hoc Page, as required.

An Ad hoc Item must be created from the Ad hoc Item web page before it can be added to a Playlist. Similarly, the Ad hoc

Page must be created from the Ad hoc Page web page - and one or more Ad hoc Items added to it - before it can be used

by Ad hoc users.

In Manual Ad hoc mode, you can create Ad hoc Pages which contain Ad hoc Items which have been added to multiple

Layout Playlists. This is useful, for example, if the same Ad hoc welcome message is to be shown on multiple Layouts.

Creating Ad hoc Content as You Build Your Design

1. Create your Layout in the normal way.

2. From the Home page, click on Layouts and select Manage Layouts from the drop down menu.