How to Interrupt a Daily Schedule to Play Temporary Schedules

For many digital signage users, keeping a specific template design as your core setup is a common strategy.

But what if you need to change your display's content for only a short period such as a couple of days or even a few hours?

While one option is to just overwrite the current schedule then switch back when the event is complete, this creates unnecessary bottlenecks as you'll have to repeat the scheduling process multiple times.

However, with Mvix CMS you'll have the option to customize your schedule so that you can play a temporary schedule that will automatically switch back to your main schedule once it is complete.

Tip: Temporary schedules are perfect for announcements such as birthdays or workiversaries. These schedules can even be focused to only certain times of the day.

What You'll Need

• An active Mvix Account
• Access to the Mvix CMS Scheduling Module

How to Create a Temporary Schedule

After you either upload your temporary media or create a new template, access the "Schedule & Publish" module on Mvix CMS.

• Once the module loads, (1) select your content and (2) adjust any media settings to your current needs.
• For the timeframe, (3) select the start and end dates for this campaign, (4) modify the start and end times, and then (5) choose the type of schedule this should follow.

Note: Selecting "Does Not Repeat" will force your schedule to only play for the current day. For most schedules, "Daily" is the recommended option.

• Lastly, you'll need to (6) choose which player(s) your media will play on and then click (7) "Save Schedule".

• The above popup window will appear. (8) Name your schedule something easy to reference then click (9) "Save And Close".

• As you already have a schedule running, the above "Conflicting Schedule" window will show.
• Since this is only a temporary schedule, we want to keep the previous schedule as "Active". To do that, (10) toggle "Revert To Original After New Schedule Expires". This ensures that your current schedule is kept as active and will display once this temporary schedule finishes.
• Lastly (11) click "Override" to complete the process.

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