Using Scheduling Groups

  1. From within Splash, select Scheduling and then the Campaign tile.

    2. This presents a filter search window.

  2. Select a filter and click Search to locate the needed campaign.
  3. Open the needed campaign record from the search results.

    4. This presents the campaign record Basic Info screen.

  4. Scroll down the tabs on the left and select Scheduling Groups.

    5. The screen refreshes to present the scheduling groups overview.

  1. Click the button at the top of the screen.

    2. This presents the New Filter editor. It contains all of the filters needed to create and apply content schedule.

  2. Enter a purposeful Name for the filter.

    3. A description is optional but can be useful if the filter is going to be complex or many people will be working on the campaign.

There are nine filter tabs inside each group Filter:

The filters tabs are linked by 'and'. If you were to create a filter that used segments and spot length it would be Segments 'and' Spot Length. Inside of the tabs, the logic typically uses 'or'. It is not necessary to select any Segments. If nothing is selected, the schedule applies to all bookings in the campaign, subject to the other selected filters, if any.

Asterisks appear in the tab names for filters that have been used.

Use the weekly Scheduler tab to create a schedule within the filter. It works exactly the same way as the digital scheduler elsewhere in Broadsign Ayuda. Campaign bundles and designs load automatically. Select the needed content and paint it onto the grid.

This filter is used to select which Segments, Digital Booking Lines or individual Faces will be playing the scheduled content.

The campaign's Segments and Digital Booking Lines are listed automatically. To include Segment(s) in the filter group, enable the check box next to the needed row(s). Click Save.

  • The Hide Expired Segments feature simplifies the list by hiding segments that are in the past.
  • The Sales Market, Start/End Dates, Media, Media Group and Comments headers are sortable. Click them to sort the columns in ascending or descending order.
  • The search segments field can be used to locate specific segments.
  • Enabling check boxes on rows updates the Selected value in the top row.

The campaign's booking line spot length is shown. To add another spot length, enter an integer in the Manual Entry field and click Add.

This creates a filter that includes entered spot lengths. To add additional spot lengths to be excluded, enter another value and press enter. To remove a spot length filter, click the square Minus button next to the spot length entry that must be deleted.

This presents the networks that have been configured for your company. Enable the check boxes to select which networks should be used for scheduling the bundle. Click Save.

This presents the media types that have been configured. Enable check boxes to select which media should be used for scheduling the bundle. Click Save.

Note: Static inventory may also be listed here but selecting these has no impact.

This presents the geographic areas that have been configured. Enable check boxes to select which areas should be used for scheduling the bundle. Click Save.

The Sites and Faces filters work the same way: two search fields are available for selecting sites or faces to be included.

Use the Search Sites text field to locate sites by search terms. Clicking the first column to the left of the name adds the section to the list of sites or faces to be included. To remove a site or face filter from this filter list, select the square Minus button.

The Bulk Add entry field can be used to enter a site or face numbers separated by commas.

Attributes are customer-specific labels that Broadsign Ayuda clients can configure for their system. If the attribute has been configured to act as a restriction for inventory in the group scheduler, it will be available as a check box. See Attributes and Restrictions for the Scheduling Groups.

Group filters can be edited at any time or deleted.

To edit an existing group filter, click the magnifying glass button from the group scheduler main screen. To delete a group filter, enable the check box in its row and click the trash button. This presents a confirmation request. Click Yes to delete.

This button appears next to each Filter in the Filters list once scheduling groups have been created and saved.

This functionality is useful when

  • a schedule has been created and saved for the future but not applied at the time of creation
  • a schedule has been edited and needs to be re-applied
  • some faces, DBLs or segments have been added to the campaign and need to be included in the existing filter.

Click Override or Don't Override as needed. This function allows to change the schedules created at Digital Booking Line level in Segments. Override will not apply to the content scheduled manually at the individual face level.

The following bundle validations are performed as the last step of scheduling, and will trigger a warning message:

  • No bundles are scheduled
  • Bundle is empty
  • At least one design in the bundle does not have its approval status set to "Approved"
  • At least one design that has the "Do not Play" flag set
  • Bundle or design has any restrictions
  • Design has valid dates that conflict with the booking dates
  • At least one design has a duration with a difference of one second and "Play to End" is not set
  • Warn if the aspect ratio of the booking faces does not match any of the media files in the bundle
  • Warn if the schedule will apply to no booking lines
  1. Click the Segments icon on the left bar inside the same campaign record.

    2. The screen refreshes to show the scheduled segments.

  2. Click the angle brackets to drill down to the face level. Click the icons in the Overwrite Schedule for the needed faces to review their schedules.

    3. If the Overwrite Schedule icon is black (as above), the booking line has no schedule.

    If it is blue, the schedule has been applied at the lowest individual face booking level. It can be always be edited manually in this UI, whether it was originally created here, or in the Scheduling Groups. Scheduling Filter will never remove manually applied content. It can only add to it, that is, schedule around the already slotted content.

    Grey schedule icon means that it is disabled. For example, when a digital pack schedule automatically applies to all faces of the pack, the scheduling of individual bookings will be disabled.

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