The default event – Gefen EXT-HD-DSMP User Manual

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THE DEFAULT EVENT

Understanding the Default Event

As mentioned earlier, the

schedule.gsh file must always contain a default

event. The important thing to remember when using Digital Signage is that

something (some type of media) should be displayed at all times. A Digital Sig-

nage application with nothing displayed defeats the whole purpose of the

application. Therefore, the default event should display media content when

other content is not scheduled to be played.

Example:

Let’s say we have a Digital Signage application in a retail store. Our store hours

are from 9 - 6 everyday. We want Digital Signage playing during store hours and

after store hours. However, we want different signage played after hours. Here’s

one way of setting this up:

When our store is closed, our main Digital Signage will no longer be displayed,

so the default event will be used to “fill in the gap” when our store is closed.

Since we want this played every day of the week, we would set the information

between the

<DayOfWeek> opening and closing tags to: 1,1,1,1,1,1,1.

The default event will begin at 6:00 pm each night, and will end at 8:59:59 each

morning.

<FileName>/playlists/closed.gpl</FileName>

</DefaultEvent>

After that time, our normal content would be played. Our normal content would

then begin at 9:00 am and continue until 5:59:59 pm. Note that the default event

does not contain the

<StartDate> and <EndDate> opening and closing tags.

Since we want this event to play this event all the time, no matter what day it is, it

is unnecessary to specify the dates.

<Event>

<FileName>/playlists/open.gpl</FileName>

</Event>

This is only one example of using the default event. One example of extending

the flexibility of this Digital Signage application might be to add events that would

only be played on Saturdays and Sundays.

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