Asset Level Activation

This page describes asset level activation for the assets used in Channels.

The following topics are covered in this section:

• Overview
• Activation Window
• Single Event Playback
• Handling Recurrence in Assets
  • DayParting
  • WeekParting
  • MonthParting
  • Combination of Partings
• Multi-asset Activation
• Global Override For Universal Start Time

Overview

Asset Level Activation, allows you to activate a specific asset in a channel for a scheduled time frame in the player’s local timezone. This is available for images, videos, transitions, pages, and embedded channels (dynamic or static).

For example, you want a special promotion to be displayed only during happy hour (2PM to 5PM) on Mondays and Wednesdays.

With this feature, not only can you specify start and end date and time but also a recurrence pattern.

Activation Window

Asset Level Activation is done by configuring the Activation tab while accessing properties of an asset.

Follow the steps below to perform asset level scheduling:

1. Select any channel and click Edit from the action bar to add or edit content in your channel.

   

   NOTE

   To learn in detail on how to

   • Create a project, see Creating a new Project.
   • Create and add content to a channel, see Managing Channels.

2. Click Edit to open the channel editor and select an asset you want to apply the scheduling to.

   

3. Select the asset and click on top left Configure (wrench icon) to open the properties of the image.

   Click the Activation tab.

   

4. You can specify the date from the date picker using Active from and Active until fields.

   If you select the Active from and Active until date and time, the asset will display and loop only between that start date/time and end date/time respectively.

   

Handling Recurrence in Assets

You can schedule assets to recur at certain intervals on daily, weekly, or monthly basis too as per your requirement.

Suppose you want to display an image only on Fridays from 1:00 pm until 10:00 pm. You can use the Activation tab to set the desired recurring interval for your asset.

Day Parting

1. Select the asset and click on Configure (wrench icon) to open the properties dialog box.

2. After entering the start date/time and end/date time, you can use an expression or a natural text version to specify your recurrence schedule.

   NOTE

   You can skip or include the Active from and Active Until fields and add the expression to the Schedules field, as per your requirement.

3. Enter the expression into the Schedule and your asset will display for the particular interval of day and time.

Example Expressions for Day Parting

The following table summarizes few example expressions that you can add to the schedule while assigning channel to a display.

WeekParting

1. Select the asset and click on Configure (wrench icon) to open the properties dialog box.

2. After entering the start date/time and end/date time, you can use an expression or a natural text version to specify your recurrence schedule.

   NOTE

   You can skip or include the Active from and Active Until fields and add the expression to the Schedules field, as per your requirement.

3. Enter the expression into the Schedule and your asset will display for the particular interval of day and time.

Example Expressions for WeekParting

The following table summarizes few example expressions that you can add to the schedule while assigning channel to a display.

MonthParting

1. Select the asset and click on Configure (wrench icon) to open the properties dialog box.

2. After entering the start date/time and end/date time, you can use an expression or a natural text version to specify your recurrence schedule.

   NOTE

   You can skip or include the Active from and Active Until fields and add the expression to the Schedules field, as per your requirement.

3. Enter the expression into the Schedule and your asset will display for the particular interval of day and time.

Example Expressions for MonthParting

The following table summarizes few example expressions that you can add to the schedule while assigning channel to a display.

Combination of Partings

1. Select the asset and click on Configure (wrench icon) to open the properties dialog box.

2. After entering the start date/time and end/date time, you can use an expression or a natural text version to specify your recurrence schedule.

   NOTE

   You can skip or include the Active from and Active Until fields and add the expression to the Schedules field, as per your requirement.

3. Enter the expression into the Schedule and your asset will display for the particular interval of day and time.

Example Expressions for Combination of Partings

The following table summarizes few example expressions that you can add to the schedule while assigning channel to a display.

Multi-asset Activation

Multi-asset Activation allows the user to select multiple assets and apply a playback schedule to all selected assets.

Prerequisites

To use multi-asset level activation for your assets, create an AEM Screens project with a sequence channel. For example, the following use case showcases the implementation of the feature:

• Create an AEM Screens project titled as MultiAssetDemo
• Create a channel titled as MultiAssetChannel and add content to the channel, as shown in the figure below

Follow the steps below to select multiple assets and schedule their display in an AEM Screens project:

1. Select MultiAssetChannel and click Edit from the action bar to open the editor.

   

2. Select multiple assets from the editor and click Edit Activation (top left icon).

   

3. Select the date and time in Active from and Active until from the Component Activation dialog box. Click the check mark icon when you are done selecting the schedules.

   

4. Click refresh to check the assets to which multi-asset schedule is applied.

   NOTE

   The schedule icon is visible on the top right corner to those assets that have muti-asset activation.

   

Global Override For Universal Start Time

Global Override for Universal Start Time, is a setting that allows the content author to define the playback of an image or video asset based on a specific time. The time/timezone setting of any individual player is not used.

Normally, playback is determined by the local time of any given player but with the global override, a specific, universal start time can be used to initiate the playback of the asset.

This allows the content author to designate playback of a specific asset as occurring at a specific date/time regardless of the local clock on any players which have the assigned content.

Global Override for Universal Start Time is done by configuring the Activation tab while accessing properties of an asset. Follow the steps below to perform a Global Override for asset scheduling:

1. Select any channel and click Edit from the action bar to add or edit content in your channel.

   

2. Click Edit to open the channel editor and select an asset you want to apply the scheduling to.

   

3. For a Global Override enter activation time in the Timezone override section for the asset. If you do not enter anything in this area the timezone applied will be the player’s timezone.

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