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The A Dynamic Playlist state allows you to display media from a Dynamic Playlist on your BSN Content Cloud network.
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widget in a presentation points to an external bucket of content in a Dynamic Playlist. The widget constantly checks the contents of that bucket to make sure it’s up-to-date. These widgets can be used in presentations where the structure and layout of the presentation remains unchanged, but the content of the Dynamic Playlist widgetchangesbasedonthe content and order of the items in the source playlist.
State Properties
Name: The name of the Dynamic Playlist state
Initial State: Select this to make this state the home screen
Source
This section lets you select a Dynamic Playlist to populate the state.
Content Usage
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This section lets you modify other options associated with the Dynamic Playlist.
Update Interval: Specify how often the player should refresh the contents of the Dynamic Playlist.
Optimize Feed Updates (use HEAD calls): Check this box to have the player make an HTTP HEAD request before retrieving the contents of the Dynamic Playlist. See this page for more details.
Automatically generate User Variables from Data Feed: Use the feed to populate a set of User Variables for HTML pages. See this page for more details.
Event Handler State
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In some scenarios, you might want your presentation to sit at a blank screen. The Event Handler fills the role of an empty placeholder in your presentation. Here are a few cases where an Event Handler would be useful:
You want a blank screen for a Home Screen so no content will play until the presentation is activated.
You want to add a command that is performed before the first file in the presentation plays.
You want the presentation to sit at a blank screen when finished, instead of looping.
Although Event Handlers contain no content, you can add commands and interactive events into and out of them. For example, if you set an Event Handler state as the Home Screen and define a BP900 event linked from the Event Handler state to the first presentation item, the display will sit at a blank screen until a user presses the BP900 button, and then the first item will begin playing. Alternatively, if you set an Event Handler as the Home Screen and add a Synchronize command to it, you can synchronize your presentations and/or displays before the first files begin playing.
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Notes
This section lets you store important information about the Dynamic Playlist state for future users. It can be modified at any time.
Advanced
This section lets you add commands to your presentation to extend its functionality. See https://brightsign.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOC/pages/388432939/Commands+and+Conditional+Targets#Commands for more information.
Using the Dynamic Playlist
There are two main steps to using these widgets. The first step is to create the dynamic element in the content library so that it can be accessed in any presentation. The second step is to create a presentation and refer to those external elements through the playlist widget Source parameter.
To do this:
Go to the Content menu and selecting New Component > Dynamic Playlist.
Save your project.
Enter a name for the new playlist and select Create.
Go to your Media folder and pick the media that you want to add to your playlist.
Drag those media files into your sandbox and reorder them as needed. When you are done, select the save icon at the top right.
Go back to the presentation and drag a Dynamic Playlist widget into the sandbox.
With the widget selected, go to the State Properties panel and select the playlist you just created under Source. The presentation will now display this playlist.