Enhanced Ad Hoc Access Control - Black Box iCOMPEL 2U Series User Manual

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5.1 Enhanced Ad Hoc Access Control

Generating ad hoc content is quick and easy. As the content designer, you can build-in ad hoc content during
implementation of your design. Alternatively, you can work with an existing design and allocate ad hoc content as required.
Whichever route you choose, the overall time taken for generating display content is minimized. Ad hoc users can be
working with the system productively with minimum delay.
Automatic Ad Hoc:
By default, the iCOMPEL enables automatic ad hoc for all newly-created layouts. You can control whether it is disabled or
enabled with the Layout Ad hoc Page setting on the layout's Layout Properties tab.
Automatic ad hoc makes creating content easier, as it eliminates many of the configuration and setup tasks. The layout
automatically creates a single ad hoc page, which contains all ad hoc playlist Items in the layout. As you add or remove ad
hoc items, the iCOMPEL automatically adds or removes them from the layout ad hoc page.
You have full control over ad hoc pages, including specifying which users are or are not authorized to make changes.
However, you cannot add or remove existing ad hoc Items or reference ad hoc items in other layouts. Therefore, automatic
ad hoc is unsuitable if you want multiple layouts to use the same ad hoc item.
Manual Ad Hoc:
Manual ad hoc gives you complete responsibility for creating and managing all ad hoc pages and the items within them.
You need to add ad hoc items to one or more playlists and one or more ad hoc pages, as required.
You must create an ad hoc item before you can add it to a playlist. Similarly, you must create an ad hoc page and add one
or more ad hoc items to it before it can be used by ad hoc users.
In manual ad hoc mode, you can create ad hoc pages that contain ad hoc items added to multiple layout playlists. For
example, this is useful if you want to show the same ad hoc welcome message on multiple layouts.
Creating Ad Hoc Content as You Build Your Design:
Create your layout in the normal way:
1. On the menu bar, click Layouts and Manage Layouts.
2. Click the Add Layout tab.
3. Enter a name for the layout and click the
4. Locate your new layout on the Layouts page and click its
5. Create the zones you require and enable them to play the ad hoc media items you want to add.
6. Click the button and select Save all changes and edit Playlist from the drop-down list.
You can now add ad hoc items. The way in which you do this depends on the type of ad hoc item you want to add:
Text 1. On the playlist's page, click the Specials tab and enter the text you wish to be displayed.
2. Check the Content of this item can be customized using this Layout's Ad hoc Entry Page box.
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