Multi-Zone to Single-Zone Transition multizone-to-singlezone-use-case
Use Case Description use-case-description
This section describes a use-case example that emphasizes on how to set up a multi-zone layout channel that alternates with a single-zone layout channel. The multi-zone channel has sequencing image/video assets and it shows how you can set up project that alternates from multi-zone to single-zone and conversely.
Preconditions preconditions
Before you start this use case, make sure you understand how to:
Primary Actors primary-actors
Content Authors
Setting up the Project setting-up-the-project
Follow the steps below to set up a project:
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Create an AEM Screens Project named as TakeoverLoop, as shown below.
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Creating a Multi-Zone Screens Channel
- Click the Channels folder and click Create from the action bar and opening the wizard so you can create a channel.
- Click Left-L Bar Split Screen Channel from the wizard and create the channel titled as MultiZoneLayout.
- Add content to the channel. Drag and drop the assets to each of the zones. The following example shows a MultiZoneLayout channel comprising a video, an image, and a text banner (in an embedded sequence), as shown below.
note note NOTE To learn more about creating a multi-zone layout in your channel, see Multi-zone Layout. -
Create another channel titled as TakeoverChannel to your Channels folder.
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Click Edit from the action bar so you can add content to this channel. Add a Channel component and an image asset that you want to switch to for this channel, as shown in the figure below:
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Open the settings for the Channel component and point it to the MultiZoneLayout channel that you created in step 2.
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Set the duration from the Sequence field to 10000 milliseconds.
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Similarly, open the settings for the Image (asset you added) and set its duration from the Sequence field to 3000 milliseconds.
Checking the Preview checking-the-preview
You can view the desired output from the player or just by selecting Preview from the editor.
The output demonstrates how a multi-zone layout plays for 10000 milliseconds and then switches to single zone layout that has playback duration of 3000 milliseconds and then switches back to the multi-zone layout.