With playback restrictions, you control when your Content plays. In this tutorial we focuse solely on time-based restrictions. There are many other criteria for restrictions. Allow your Content to play by date, days of the week, or even hours.
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- In your OnSign account, select a piece of Content and choose “Publish” from the menu options.
- On the Publish page, choose the Player you want to display the Content on.
- Scroll down to the “Playback Restrictions” box. Change it from "Play with no restriction" to "Play only when...". There is also a "Don't play when..." option. It is the same, just in negative form.
- On the right side you can select between Visual Mode or Logic Mode. Many people prefer Visual Mode for being more intuitive when starting out with restrictions. Logic Mode is a more complete setting with more options and the ability to chain several restrictions together. Let's stay with Visual Mode.
- Click the blue "Add Restriction" button. Change the radio checkbox from "Always Play" to "During a Period of Time".
- Here you can choose:
- Days of the week, from Sunday to Saturday.
- Specific periods of time in hours, minutes, and seconds.
- Day, month, and year it should start and/or finish playing. If you leave this field blank, your Content starts at the next applicable date without an end date.
- Confirm this configuration with the orange “Apply” button at the bottom-right corner of the Restrictions box.
- Then confirm once more with the "Publish" button at the very bottom-right of the page.
- Your Content is successfully published to your Player. All playback information is shown next to the Player thumbnail.
The restriction you just created is valid only on the selected Player. If you want the Restriction to apply on other Players, check out this tutorial.