Channels

The Channels are the Broadcast platforms (TV, Radio, VoD, ...) of your organization. In the section Administration >> Channels, you will be able to create, modify and manage your different channels.

Search by text

Start typing a text and click Enter. The system will show you the results matching with your query

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Filter Options

Click the drop down menu to display the filtering options. Select your filters and click on the "Search" button.

Click

to clear the value and remove the filter.

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Sort by field

You can click on any of the available fields in the columns, to order the results, ascending

or descending

Each user can also change the position of each column just using drag & drop.

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Select / Unselect All

Click on this checkbox to select or unselect all the elements of the list. When selected, the trash icon to delete all will be enabled.

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Select / Unselect Channel

To select or unselect individual elements, click each checkbox. When some element is selected, the trash icon to delete them will be enabled.

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Edit Channel

To edit an existing channel:

Mouse over on the element and click the icon;

or just one click on the selected row.

This will open the metadata form, to edit all the available metadata fields:

To cancel the edit, click "Cancel". To save the changes and keep in the edit form, click "Save". To save the changes and go back to the previous list, click "Save & Go Back".

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Delete Channel

To delete a channel:

Mouse over the element, and click on the icon

Select or multi-select them using the checkboxes and click on the top trash icon

This action will show the following dialog:

Click

to delete the selected users, or

to cancel the operation.

If the element you want to delete has dependences , it won't be deleted and the system will show you a list of existing dependences

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Create new channel

Click on this button to create a new channel.

This will open the metadata form, where you must introduce (at least) the mandatory fields.

Name. Name of the channel
Id. Internal ID of the channel (mainly for integration purposes)
Start Hour. The playlists of each channel can start in different hours. Introduce when the playlists of the channel should start in HH:00:00 (only o'clock hours)
Default Export Type. This is the default type of playlist exporting file for automation set to the channel (BXF, VSNOneTV, CSV, ...)
Date Locale. This will define the regional settings used to display dates and times for this channel (days of the week, time settings, etc.)
Export BXF in UTC Time Zone? If using the BXF export format, check this value to export the times in UTC,
Time Zone. Select the regional time zone of the channel
Allowed Export Types. Select the automation export formats you want to enable for the specific channel
Allowed EPG Types. Select the EPG export formats you want to enable for the specific channel

To cancel the operation, click "Cancel". To save the changes and keep in the creation form, click "Save". To save the changes and go back to the previous list, click "Save & Go Back".

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