A playlist is a list of media items that can be added to a Campaign’s zone playlist. Since playlist is a Project level entity, it can be shared among different Campaigns within the same project. The user must have appropriate permission to perform different actions on playlist such as create, modify, publish etc. The playlist can contain another playlist as a media item. However recursive playlist addition is not allowed.

To create a new Playlist, select Playlists from Project Explorer under Project tree view.

This opens the all Playlists list view workspace. Right-click inside the workspace to open the context menu and select Create New, or click on the link new, alternatively, select Plus sign from the navigation menu.

This creates a new Playlist in the workspace. Before the playlist is open it prompts for Playlist name.

After the Playlist name is entered:

In the table below are descriptions on sub-menu Add Media

Select Add Media from the context menu. This opens the file selection dialog window. Select the appropriate file(s) and click Open. This adds the file(s). Use the filters below to search for supported media type.

Select Add Web Resource from the context menu. This opens the Enter URL dialog window. Enter a valid web resource URL and click OK to add the web resource as a media item. Click Cancel to cancel the operation. Also, you can check ‘Check webpage availability’ checkbox to check webpage availability.

Select Add Remote Drop File from the context menu. This opens the Enter Remote File Location dialog window. Enter a valid remote file drop location and click OK to add the drop location as a media item. Click Cancel to cancel the operation.

Select Add Existing Media from the context menu. This opens the Helper window and shows a list of Media Libraries available in the project. Select the media you want to add and drag & drop to the Playlist workspace. Selected media will be added to the Playlist.

Select Add Existing Playlist from context menu. This opens the Helper window and shows a list of Playlists available in the project. Select the Playlist you want to add and drag & drop to the Playlist workspace. Selected Playlist will be added to the Playlist. This is an example of adding Playlist within another Playlist.

To add condition play to the playlist; select the playlist, then right-click on the select Condition or click on Condition icon in the navigation menu.

Click Save in the navigation menu.

Six types of Playlists are supported in Campaign Manager: ordered, random by duration, randomly count based, ordered count based, time synchronized and time synchronized count based.

You can add a Playlist inside another Playlist. To add a playlist inside another playlist, select Add Existing Playlist from the context menu on the Playlist workspace and click on the button Add Playlist. Click Save to save the changes. NOTE that recursive playlist addition is not allowed. For example, add Playlist A to Playlist B and then add Playlist B to Playlist A. If you try to save Playlist A, task dialog will inform you that recursive playlist cannot be added.

Based on the Playlist type, individual playlist item settings also change in the section.

For Ordered Playlist type, each field in the Playlist Item Settings on the ribbon is defined below.

For Random by Duration Playlist type, each field in the Playlist Item Settings on the ribbon is defined below.

For Randomly Count based Playlist type, each field in the Playlist Item Settings on the ribbon is defined below.

For Ordered Count based Playlist type, each field in the Playlist Item Settings on the ribbon is defined below.

For Time Synchronized based Playlist type, each field in the Playlist Item Settings on the ribbon is defined below.

For Time Synchronized based Playlist type, each field in the Playlist Item Settings on the ribbon is defined below.