AMX InspiredSignage XPress Features
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AMX InspiredSignage XPress Programming Guide
Scheduling
XPress offers an intuitive interface that allows the user to associate to any type of XPress content a schedule in
the iCalendar format. Using this feature, the user can plan in advance when the content shall be displayed on a
specific IS-SPX-1000 player.
The scheduling interface implemented by XPress is very similar to the one implemented by electronic agendas
such as that in Microsoft Outlook: each event you add on the agenda (like when you add a meeting in your
Outlook) is associated to a starting date/time and a duration (or an end date/time). In addition, it is possible to
associate to an event recurring rules so as to schedule a media to be displayed twice per week on Monday and
Friday between 9:00AM and 10:00AM.
Once the planning of the day, week, month or year is finalized, XPress exports the results into a standard
iCalendar file. This schedule file has the extension .ics and can be used as any other media to compose your
content. The flexibility obtained with such an approach allows the user to schedule full screen content, but also
specific elements in the scene (such as different backgrounds, logos, source of information, etc.)
Scheduling the content displayed by a IS-SPX-1000 player
When you have created or imported a XPress project (for more information, please refer to the XPress
projects section on page 6) you have a master file index.svg in your project. The following steps explain how
you can define when the project will be displayed once you have published it to a specific IS-SPX-1000 player.
1. Create a new schedule document in your project. Simply right-click the browsing area in your project
and select New Schedule from the pop-up menu. A new.ics file will be created in your project.
2. Open the new.ics file. XPress will display a calendar view in the Editing panel, where you can select the
current day, week, or month.
3. Drag and drop from the browsing panel of your XPress project any individual media you want to
schedule into the calendar view in the Editing panel. Define the start duration of each media and its
recurrence pattern, if desired.
4. Repeat the previous step for each media you want to schedule and save your changes.
5. Open the index.svg file of your XPress project. Drag and drop the new.ics file as a new layer into your
index.svg file.
6. Save your changes.
The file index.svg may already contain layers. You may decide to remove the existing layers and leave a single
one associated to the new.ics. In this case when you publish your project to a IS-SPX-1000 player, the content
will be played according to your schedule. You may also decide to combine your schedule with a background
image, which would be an additional layer in your index.svg. This choice would guarantee that at least the
background image will be displayed for those time periods when you have not planned any content. Multiple
layers may also be combined with multiple schedules.
Create a new schedule
To create a new schedule in XPress:
1. Open the project where the schedule needs to be added.
2. Use the right-click pop-up menu to create a New Schedule (FIG. 35).
3. A new file new.ics will be created. This is the scheduler.
4. Rename the scheduler to an appropriate name for your project.
The scheduler can be dropped into a multilayer document or a playlist as any other media.
FIG. 35 Schedule menu
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