Black Box iCOMPEL 2U Series User Manual page 13

To flesh out how those relationships work, consider each of those key features in turn.
Schedule
Your iCOMPEL is designed to run continuously. You control which Layouts are displayed on what days and at which times
by creating a Schedule. The schedule may be something like this:
Layout A runs from 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm, Mondays to Fridays.
Layout B runs from 2.00 pm to 8.00 pm, Saturdays and Sundays.
Layout C runs at all other times, throughout the week.
Layout
A Layout is the arrangement of individual display areas, known as Zones, that you use to compose your on-screen
display. Your layout might display video in one zone, scrolling text in another, a sequence of still images in a third zone,
with a full-screen zone behind the others showing a background color or image.
Zones
Zones are rectangular areas, each of which can display various forms of content (known as media items). You can design
layouts with any number of zones, of any size, in any location, either separate or overlapping. You specify which zones
display which media types (for example, one for a promotional video, one for scrolling text, another for your organization's
name or logo, and so on). You can also have zones display a mix of media types. You arrange the media items for each
zone in a Playlist.
Playlist
A Playlist contains one or several media items that you choose to display in a zone. Media items include fixed and
scrolling text, movies, images, Adobe Flash animations, web pages, and newsfeeds. To display a media item, you add it to
the playlist. Each zone has its own playlist, which runs continuously. You can also synchronize the display between two
playlists (for example, to run a scrolling text message at the same time as a related promotional video or image.
That examination of the key features gives a flavor of how you put together your signage display on a single iCOMPEL.
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