Terms You Need To Know - Black Box iCompel ICOMP-ICC User Manual

This is not to say the iCC alone can provide everything required for more specialist configurations. You may need to add a
Channel Content Server (CCS) to assist content processing if you have specific network topology requirements (see
Channel Content Servers
Having now considered the background terms and concepts of the digital signage network, the next step is to understand how
to compose the content that you will publish through the iCC. Begin by reading the

1.2 Terms You Need to Know

The iCC provides powerful facilities to help you to design, structure, and control sophisticated and effective content display.
To understand how you use the iCC to manage display of content, it is important to understand how certain key features relate
to each other.
The following diagram illustrates the critical relationships between Schedules, Layouts, Zones, and Playlists:
To flesh out how those relationships work, consider each of those key features in turn.
Schedule
The player 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.
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Layout B runs from 2.00 pm to 8.00 pm, Saturdays and Sundays.
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Layout C runs at all other times, throughout the week.
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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
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