Editing Campaign

Editing the campaign entails editing the information in the four sections of the campaign.

We can start editing a campaign simply by opening the Campaign in the Campaigns listview. Click on Campaigns button (first button) located in the left navigation menu.

This will open the campaign list view. In order to edit a campaign, the following needs to be done:

Any time something is changed in the campaign, the Save button will automatically be activated in the left navigation menu or in the right context menu (By default, this button is inactive until some changes are made).

After Campaign is opened, by default What section is shown. In the left navigation menu and right context menu are shown following buttons: Back, Save, Copy, Paste, Approve, Publish, Pull, Zones Layout, Playlist settings, View Published Version (this button is only shown if the Campaign is published), Export to CSV, Export Playlist and Reset.

In order to add media, there are three ways to add media and other entities to the campaign’s zone playlist. All options for the media items in the campaign’s playlist are located under the ‘Playlist settings’ button. This button is located on both left navigation and the right context menu. There is a third way you can add media items to the campaign playlist, which is by hovering on ‘Add Media’ link in the middle of the page (NOTE: This link is only available when the list is empty, which applies by default for all newly created Campaigns).

There are eight options available under the Add Media submenu: File Upload, Web Resource, Live stream, Capture, Existing Media, Existing Playlist, Remote File Drop, Media Template and Media Tree Template.

In order to remove media items from the Zone Playlist section, you can use ‘Delete’ button from Playlist Settings menu from both left navigation and right context menu. Also, you can use the shortcut from the keyboard by clicking on the ‘Delete’ button. After any of these options is used (clicked) new modal window will open to confirm removal of the media operation. Click Delete to remove media or Cancel to cancel removing media.

On the right side of the page in What section is shown the preview of the selected zones (Screen Designer). At the top is drop down menu with a list of all created zones in the Campaign. You can manually select individual zones by clicking on their names in the list. Below this list is the zone preview section (designer) where you can manually resize and position all created Zones (use the mouse to drag-and-drop selected zone borders and position). Above and below the designer are six fields where you can manually enter the width, height and position of the canvas and the selected zones. All options for this section are placed in the ‘Zones Layout’ button in the left navigation or right context menu. If you hover over this button menu with following options will be shown: Add Zone (additional menu on hover with following options: Zone, Ticker Zone, Text Zone and QR Code Zone), Remove Zone, Rename Zone, Canvas Options (additional menu on hover with following options: Show/Hide Grid, Snap to Grid, No Overlapping, Bring to front and Percentage/Pixel based placement), Screen orientation (additional menu on hover with two options: Portrait and Landscape), Primary Zone, Audio Zone and Support Zone.

Clicking the Audio Zone button from the Zones Layout menu will create a new zone called Audio Zone. In this zone, only audio files can be added.

Clicking the Support Zone button from the Zones Layout menu will create a new zone called Support Zone. In this zone, support files can be added such as .xml files.

After adding them, both of these zones can be accessed by clicking on the 'Selected zone(s):' dropdown menu:

The When section is used to schedule the time of appearance of the campaign. By clicking on the When tab button, the schedule workspace appears in a form of a calendar.

At the top of the What section are six buttons: Basic, Recurrent, Edit Recurrence, Addition, Exclusion and Remove all. Below these buttons is shown the preview of the calendar, showing all selected conditions for all days for the selected month. You can choose between two types of schedule: Basic or Recurrent schedule. NOTE: By default, newly created Campaigns have basic schedule selected.

When the Basic button is clicked, then you have Basic Schedule type selected shown on the picture. Starts and ends fields are available, from calendar box start and end dates can be selected, time can be added manually from the keyboard. By default, date of creation is set as Starts date, while the Ends time is after one week from the Starts time. If you click on the calendar icon you can select the date, month and year from the pop-up calendar menu. Clicking the Now button will automatically select the current day and time, while clicking the Clear button will reset the selected date and time.

To select a Recurrent schedule type, click on the Recurrent button. New Recurrent Schedule Editor window opens up.

In this window, recurrent schedule can be created with specific conditions. This editor window has three parts: Schedule range, Daily play times pattern and Recurrence pattern. In Schedule range, Starts date can be selected from the calendar box and for end date two radio buttons are available: first is end after X occurrences (number of occurrences can be added to the white box) and second radio button is Ends by date, from calendar box end date can be selected.

In Daily play times, the pattern has few options. The first option is Occurs once at the specific time provided by the user entering appropriate time in the white box. Another option is Occurs every, selecting this radio button white box became enabled with a dropdown menu to choose: hours, minutes or seconds. Two new fields appear under dropdown menu called: Between and And in these field time range when the campaign will occurs can be defined.

In the bottom of this part, the following two radio buttons are available: Single loop – the campaign will play once, and Looping for – the campaign will play for time defined by the user.

Recurrence pattern part allows to choose: Daily (Every X days, every weekday), Weekly, Monthly and Yearly pattern. Selecting any of the provided options appropriate settings will be opened.

When recurrent schedule type is selected in when section, Edit Recurrence option is available, select this option to edit recurrence for the campaign. Also, in schedule range starts and ends date can be selected from calendar boxes.

The schedule exception is used to define an exception to the starting and ending schedule. An exception can be added only in the frame of the starting and ending time. Exclusion is used to exclude a portion of the time. To add schedule exclusion click the Exclusion button and enter the desired exclusion play by selecting a date (Exclusion Play on) and From and To time:

The Addition is used to add extra time in a day. To add additional Play click the Addition button and enter the desired additional play by selecting a date (Additional Play on) and From and To time:

The Remove button is used to remove an addition or exclusion. The “Remove All” button is used to remove all exceptions.

The Where section is used to define to which screen/sound card the campaign will air. When clicking the Where tab button, the target site workspace appears.

The Where workspace consists of two list boxes, one with the Available channels and the other with the Targeted Channels. Each list box has a Search text box so channels can be searched by their name.

In the middle, there are four buttons. The button with the symbol ‘>’ is used to transfer the selected channels to the Targeted list box. The button with the symbol ‘»’ is used to add all channels to the Targeted list box. The button with the symbol ‘<’ is used to remove the selected channels from the targeted Channels and the button with the ‘«’ symbol is used to remove all channels.

Select the Settings tab button to open settings workspace and to change settings for the campaign.

Few subsections can be edited in settings workspace. In Campaign details, the name of the campaign can be changed. Also in this subsection Audio cross fade duration can be edited by selecting the appropriate value from up/down control field. Use trigger option can be enabled or disabled for the campaign. Campaign priority can be changed by selecting priority from dropdown menu, available values are: Lowest, Low, Normal, High and Highest.

Behavior with other Campaigns provide changes for the behavior of the campaign with the other campaigns with lower priority, and also how to concern if it is interrupted by a higher priority campaign.

In Remote Interaction, subsection can be made changes for remote interactions of the campaign.