Perpetual TakeOver Channel perpetual-takeover-channel

The following page showcases a use case that emphasizes on setting up a project on how to create a Perpetual TakeOver channel that plays for a specific time day and time continuously.

Use Case Description use-case-description

This Use Case explains how to create a channel that takes over from the normally playing channel for a display or group of displays. The takeover will occur for a specific day and time perpetually.
For example, there is a Perpetual TakeOver channel that plays every Friday from 9AM to 10AM. During this time, no other channel should play. The following example showcases creation of a perpetual takeover channel that plays allows the content to play every Wednesday for 2 hours from 2:00 pm until 4:00 pm.

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:

Setting up the Channels and Display

  1. Create an AEM Screens Project titled as PerpetualTakeOver, as shown below.

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  2. Create a MainAdChannel in the Channels folder.

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  3. Select the MainAdChannel and click Edit from the action bar. Drag and drop some assets (images, videos, embedded sequences) to your channel.

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    NOTE
    The MainAdChannel in this example demonstrates a sequence channel that plays content continuously.
  4. Create a TakeOver channel that takes over the content in MainAdChannel and will play every Wednesday from 2:00 to 4:00 pm.

  5. Select the the TakeOver and click Edit from the action bar. Drag and drop some assets to your channel. The following example showcases a single zone image added to this channel.

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  6. Set up a location and display for your channels. For instance, the following location MainLobby and display MainLobbyDisplay is set up for this project.

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Assigning Channels to a Display

  1. Select the display MainLobbyDisplay from the Locations folder. Click Assign Channel from the action bar to open Channel Assignment dialog box.

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    NOTE
    To learn how to assign a channel to a display, refer to Channel Assignment.
  2. Populate the fields (Channel Path, Priority, and Supported Events) from the Channel Assignment dialog box and click Save to assign the MainAdChannel to your display.

    • Channel Path: Select the path to the MainAdChannel channel
    • Priority: Set the priority of this channel as 1.
    • Supported Events: Select the Initial Load and Idle Screen.

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  3. Select the display TakeOver from the Locations folder. Click Assign Channel from the action bar to assign the takeover chanel.

  4. To assign the TakeOver channel to your display at a scheduled time and populate the following fields from the Channel Assignment dialog box and click Save:

    • Channel Path: Select the path to the TakeOver channel

    • Priority: Set the priority of this channel greater than the MainAdChannel. For instance, the priority set in this example is 8.

    • Supported Events: Select the Idle Screen and Timer.

    • Schedule: Enter the text for the schedule that you want this channel to run the display. The text in the Schedule mentioned in this example is on Wednesday after 14:00 and before 16:00.

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      To learn more about the expressions you can add to the Schedule, refer to the Example Expressions section below.

      * **active from**: Start date and time.

    • active until: End date and time.

      For example, the text in Schedule and active from and active until date and time here allows the content to play every Wednesday from 2:00 pm until 4:00 pm.

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      Navigate to the display from TakeOver --> Locations --> MainLobby --> MainLobbyDisplay and click Dashboard from the action bar to view the assigned channels with their priorities, as shown below.

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      It is mandatory to set the priority of the takeover channel as the highest.

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      Now, the TakeOver channel will take over the MainAdChannel at 2:00 pm for two hours until 4:00 pm every Wednesday and play its content from Jan 09’ 2020 until Jan 31’ 2020.

Example Expressions example-expressions

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

Expression
Interpretation
before 8:00 am
the channel plays before 8:00 am everyday
after 2:00 pm
the channel plays after 2:00 pm everyday
after 12:15 and before 12:45
the channel plays after 12:15 pm everyday for 30 minutes
before 12:15 also after 12:45
the channel plays before 12:15 pm everyday and then also after 12:45 pm
on the 1st day of January after 2:00 pm also on the 2nd day of January also on the 3rd day of January before 3:00 am
the channel starts playing after 2:00 pm on January 1st, continues playing for the whole day on January 2nd all the way until 3:00 am on January 3rd
on the 1-2 day of January after 2:00 pm also on the 2-3 day of January before 3:00 am
the channel starts player after 2:00 pm on January 1st, continues playing until 3:00 am on January 2nd, then it starts again on January 2nd at 2:00 pm and continues playing until 3:00 am on January 3rd
NOTE
You can also use military time notation (that is, 14:00) instead of am/pm notation (that is, 2:00 pm).
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