Event Schedule (cf. Select Playlist dialog in mAirListDB)

English Feature Requests
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I don’t know whether people have simple or complex event lists (?), but it occurred to me that it might be useful to add a dialog similar to the Select Playlist dialog in mAirListDB, if that’s possible?

The new (let’s call it Event Schedule) dialog would show each occurrence of every event in the week (default: current week) shown in the dialog. Each entry would show the event time and its Description (or the default). For example, maybe under ‘today’ for the 15:00 hour, I might have entries like this:

15:01:00 Insert :00 ad break
15:05:00 Close news feed
15:27:00 Insert :30 ad break
15:55:00 Append playlist for next hour
15:59:59 Open news feed

As I said, I don’t know whether it would be worth the considerable effort it would probably take to implement something like that, but it might help people who are not comfortable with scheduling software to see their entire week’s planned events ‘at a glance,’ as one might say. If people only ever have two or three events in their list, it would obviously (?) be a waste of Torben’s time.

What does everyone else think?

(PS: Yes, I have just written the Events section of the Manual. Thanks for asking. :wink:

BFN
CAD

2

That sounds good, Cad. I’m still new to mAirList, so would this be entries in addition to an “out” log which shows all the items that aired?

Regards, Alec

3

Completely different thing, Alec. :slight_smile:

If you click Events in the main toolbar, or click the ‘E box’ (next event time) in the Playlist toolbar, you’ll see the Event Scheduler. There, you can schedule events (lists of Actions) to occur automatically at any future time.

Although the existing dialog shows the ‘next’ time each of these will occur, and because you can set up quite complex schedules in that dialog, I thought it might be useful/helpful to have another dialog which, like the Selet Playlist dialog in mAirListDB, shows you all of one week’s scheduled events ‘at a glance.’

Nothing whatever to do with logging!

BFN
CAD

4

Ah, very good. I have yet to use the full power of the event scheduler, so that sounds interesting.

Thanks again Cad.

Regards, Alec