How to set variable Web Widget duration from within widget

Marcelo_Salazar · February 13, 2018, 12:47pm

Is there a way to manage dynamic duration for web widgets? We would like to display widgets that load data dynamically, and duration has to be variable depending on the quantity of content to be displayed within the widget. Is there anyway to close a Web widget once it has finished displaying data and not before? Can Javascript from within widget communicate somehow with the player and notify it to close the widget and continue with next item on playlist?

alex · February 13, 2018, 12:52pm

There is a feature request for this, but it hasn’t been implemented currently.

github.com/xibosignage/xibo

Implement callback feature

opened 02:19PM - 31 Jan 18 UTC

closed 07:49AM - 12 Mar 19 UTC

PeterMis

enhancement player

There are use cases where communication between host and the web browser that pl…ayer use would be beneficial for users. As an example embedded html widget with embedded YouTube player, currently that widget has to have duration manually specified, in many cases we do not know how long the embedded video might be. Which then leads to playback issues if the widget duration is longer or shorter than the embedded video, however if we could get back that information from the player and adjust the duration of the widget, we would then avoid such problems. We will need to investigate how we can technically implement that and if it can be done in each supported player.