We have a customer with relatively special requirements and I don’t yet know how to implement this in xibo. It’s a local open-air cinema that wants to promote its film program.
Advertising is scheduled to start tomorrow and will show movie posters for each film. So far we have been working with the “Interrupt Layout” scheduling. (The customer has purchased a fixed share of voice.) The poster of the film which comes first is only to be shown until the evening on which the film takes place. After that, the SOV should be distributed to the remaining posters.
Unfortunately, you cannot select campaigns and assign them an SOV with “Interrupt Layout”. Is there perhaps a why around? the fact that posters of films that have already been played are no longer displayed can certainly be solved manually if necessary, but that with the SOV would be a huge effort…
I think I would put all of their posters on one Playlist, and give each one a “to date” representing the last date the poster should be shown.
Then I’d create a Layout and add a Sub-Playlist widget, assign the Playlist you created to the Sub-Playlist widget and pick “Enable cycle based playback?” with a play count of 1.
Then I’d schedule that Layout using the Interrupt system as you have done already, with the overall share of voice.
Each time the layout is played (each cycle) only one of the posters will be shown, and they will automatically be excluded once their to date has been reached.
I think that ought to work nicely, although I haven’t tried it myself.
it partly works! there is somehow a problem with the cycle based playback, which I already noticed before. when the layout is played, all playlist contents will play in sequence. I probably set something wrong… here is my configuration: Layout
