Publish Commands

New or existing Commands can be published from either navigation menu or context menu. When Commands are published, the publishing process goes through a sequence of events before the publish process is successful: publishing, syncing and distributing. While publishing and syncing relates to the communication between CampaignManager Web and CM Service, distributing relates to players downloading the Command from the service. If the Command is published to a number of players and few of the players are offline, then the Command will remain in distributing state until all players have downloaded the Command or it expires, whichever happens first.

Create a new Command. For more details regarding Command creation, please refer to Create Command article. Configure the Command as required by selecting the Command in What tab, setting the schedule in When and setting the target channel in Where section. The command can now be published in two ways:

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Create a new Command. Configure the Command as required by selecting the Command in What, setting the schedule in When and setting the target channel in Where. Click the Publish button from left navigation menu or from the right context menu. NOTE: Clicking on the Publish button without first saving changes will automatically perform the both actions: Save and Publish.

A message is shown that the selected command is successfully published. The command state is changed to published marked with green color.

Select Project and go to Commands by clicking the Commands button from the left navigation menu. From the Commands list view select some existing Command that is not yet published or is pulled. NOTE: Commands that are in the distributed state are marked with grey color, while pulled Commands are marked with red color.

From left navigation menu or right context menu, click Publish:

A message is shown that the selected command is successfully published. The command state is changed to published marked with green color.

Monitor Command distribution to Players

Once the Command is successfully published and a message is shown for successful publishing, open all Commands list view page to view the Command. To view the status of the Command distribution to the remote players, select the Command in the list. Automatically while the command is selected Details view panel is shown on the right side of the page. In the Details View panel, you can monitor the distribution progress of the Command to the players. Expand Are we there yet section to view the progress of the Command distribution. If the players have fully downloaded the Command, then the progress bar will show 100% Complete. For any other issues with distribution, an appropriate message will be displayed.