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Chapter 8 – Publishing Presentations

every day of the week. Specify the individual days of the week when you want the presentation to
play.

Range of recurrence: Use the calendar beside Start to specify the first day you want the
presentation to play. If you want the event to stop recurring at some point, click

End by and use the

calendar to specify the date. If you don’t want it to stop, click

No end date.

e. Click

OK. The adjustments made will be represented in the calendar.

f. If prompted, indicate whether you want to replace the existing schedule and then click

OK.

g. Repeat steps b through e for each presentation you want to schedule in an empty timeslot.
h. If you would like to interrupt a scheduled presentation with another presentation, drag and drop the new

presentation into an occupied timeslot (you can also schedule an overlap in the

Schedule Presentation

window). A

Schedule Conflict window will appear, providing the following options:

Keep existing events, cancel new event: Cancels the new schedule presentation action.

Keep existing events, adjust new event: Opens the Schedule Presentation window, allowing you
to schedule the new presentation in an empty timeslot. If you schedule the presentation in an
occupied timeslot, the

Schedule Conflict window will appear again.

Remove existing events, use new event: Completely removes the presentation currently occupying
the timeslot.

Interrupt existing events with new event: Schedules an interrupt in the presentation currently
occupying the timeslot. The date field will be split into two columns: The left column shows the
primary scheduled presentation in blue; the right column shows the interrupting presentation in green.
Primary scheduled presentations can be interrupted with multiple presentations, but interrupting
presentations cannot overlap with each other.

4. (Optional) Specify debugging and firmware preferences:

a. Under

Debugging, you may check one of the following:

Enable serial debugging: The autorun script will output debugging information related to the
presentation to the RS-232 serial port (as well as over Telnet and SSH if these features are enabled).

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