Cycle Items is a Playback Mode on a Playlist. This feature allows you to control how many items of a Playlist play each time the Playlist comes up in the Playback Loop.
In order to follow this tutorial step by step, check out how to create a Playlist and how to publish it beforehand. Then continue to read the instructions below:
- Select a Playlist on your OnSign account or create a new one.
- Beside the Tags text field, you can see the “Playback Mode” field. Upon selecting "Cycle Items", a field named "Count" will appear. In this field, you type the number of items you want to play each time it's this Playlist's turn in the Playback Loop. For instance, note down 1.
- Confirm your changes with "Save" or “Save and Publish” on the bottom-right corner.
- Let's check how it appears in the Playing Loop in the Player you published this on.
- Go to the "Content in Player" menu. We have here two Campaigns 1 and 2, and the Playlist Cycling which contains three Campaigns A/B/C (not explicitly shown). In the details you see of the Playlist Cycling you see “Showing 1 item at a time”.
- If you now go to the "Playing Loop" menu, you will see the following:
The Playing Loop shows one item of the Playlist in sequence with the other two Campaigns following. Every time you look at the Playing Loop, you will see Campaign A/B/C > Campaign 1 > Campaign 2.
Each time the Playlist comes around, one single Campaign (A, B, or C) from the Playlist Cycling will be played instead of the whole Playlist at once. See the next three sequences of the Playing Loop.
