Channel Assignment

Navigate to the required display, for example, Test_Project --> Locations --> TestLocation --> TestDisplay.

Tap/click Assign Channel in the action bar

Or,

Tap/click Dashboard and click +Assign Channel from the ASSIGNED CHANNNELS panel to open the Channel Assignment dialog box.

You can configure the following properties from the Channel Assignment dialog box:

Channel Role:

Channel role defines the context of the display. The role is targeted by various actions and is independent of the actual channel that fulfils the role.

Reference Channel:

Reference channel allows you to provide a reference to the desired channel, either by channel name or by channel path.

• by path: you provide an explicit reference using the absolute path of the channel.
• by name: You enter the name of the channel that will resolve to an actual channel by context. This feature allows you to create local version of a channel, in order to dynamically resolve location-specific content. For example, a channel with name deals of the day, where the actual content would be different in two cities, but you still have the sane channel role on all the displays.

Priority:

Priority is used to order the assignments in case multiple ones match the playing criteria. The one with the highest value will always take precedence over lower values. For example, if there are two channels A and B. A has a priority of 1 and B has a priority of 2, then channel B is displayed, as it has a higher priority than A.

The priority for a channel is set as a number (1 for minimum) in the Channel Assignment dialog box, as mentioned above. Additionally, the assigned channels are sorted based on descending priority.

Supported Events:

• Initial Load: loads the channel when the player is started. It can be assigned to multiple channels in combination with schedule
• Idle Screen: loads when the screen is idle. It can be assigned to multiple channels in combination with schedule
• Timer: needs to be set when a schedule is provided
• User Interaction: the player will switch to the specified channel, if there is a user interaction on the screen (touch) in an idle channel and will load when the screen is touched

Schedule:

Schedule allows you to provide a description in text when the channel should appear. It also let's you define a start date (active from) and an end date (active until) for the channel to be shown. The syntax for the schedule expression is based on later.js' text and cron syntaxes:

• https://bunkat.github.io/later/parsers.html#text
• https://bunkat.github.io/later/parsers.html#cron

Show Attraction Tooltip:

Show attraction tooltip defines if the attraction tooltip ("Touch anywhere to begin") must be shown or not while the channel is running.

Click Save to assign the created channel to a display.