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Be sure to SAVE your changes using the File or Instance menus. |
Field | Example Value | Description |
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Instance Name | BC1 | A name for this instance - typically the same as the station ID |
First Hour | 5 | The first hour of the day to start scheduling the assets into. 5 represents 5:00 am |
Occurrences | 40 | Repeats each item this many times in the 24 hour period |
Content Group | BC | The content group of the channel used |
Channel | Global News BC1 | The channel used for scheduling |
Media Content Group | BC | The content group of the Media bin |
Media Bin | BC1 Zone Ads | The Media bin where the assets associated media will be looked for
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Project Content Group | Global | The content group to find the Project in |
Project Name | L-Frame 2022 Ad Zones | The project that contains the published asset scenes that will be used by the S4M assets. Must have scenes named:
(Required when creating a new asset because the scene names are defined as |
Media Field | media.media | The name of the media tag that the media will be assigned to |
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Run
Last but not least is the Run tab where you can configure when the instance will be run or run it manually.
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The app will only check for and run the scheduler if it is enabled via the toggle switch at the bottom of the app.
Enabled toggle switch |  |
Disabled toggle switch |  |
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Note that only saved and enabled instances will be run automatically. |
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If you open it in Excel you may only see the data and time up to the minute by default. To show the seconds detail you can change the formatting of the column from type General to type Time (or another custom format).
Troubleshooting
Missing Media Problem
We had a problem where some assets weren’t having their media attached automatically when the scheduler was running:
… every once in a while, an asset once ingested via the Media Folder Watcher fails to be attached to the schedule when the S4M Daily Scheduler runs.
The Media was in the system via the watchfolder on 12-02-2024 as expected and it was ingested into the DB into the BC1 Zone Ad Directory and on 12-04-2024 it was picked up by the S4M Daily Reader and scheduled.
Everything played out the way it’s supposed to….except this link. We had to manually link the asset to the media in the schedule.
(NOTE that the media are attached via a dynamic field.)
Solution
It's a configuration issue: (Dec 9, 2024)
The Media Folder Watcher was pushing media into the BC1 Zone Ads bin in the BC content group.
Meanwhile the S4M Scheduler is looking for them in L-Frame 2022 in Global content group.