Campaign Widget
Organize content playback placement and timing with Campaign widget to deliver your Contents on an even larger scale.
Properties >> Widget >> Main
Behaviour
- If you turn off the Animated function elements in the active campaigns will just switch to the next element instead of animating out and in similar to Gallery widget's animation.
If you are using widget animation please consider page timing! Pages are advised to have at least 5 second length to show up properly.
- In the Animation selector you can choose between the animation types. You can set the delay time and the animation length here.
Master and Overlay pages do not show up inside Campaign widgets!
Contents
In Contents section the widget's content playback can be set
Automatic vs Manual mode
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You can change if the widget plays the items in the campaign playlist automatically with the Automatic display switch.
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If you switch on On-demand display you can interact with the widget, and navigate the playlist with another widget based on Manual display type.
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Manual display type can be: amount or time. Amount is a set number from the campaign item playlist, and time is a set duration of time which is allocated to items.
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Hardware Accelerated Player option manages the video playback behavior.
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You can also Choose placeholder Content, and a page from it, which will show up as a default page , when there is no available campaigns to play. If you do not choose a placeholder, then Campaign widget will not show up if there are no campaign elements to play.
Campaign tags
- With the Campaign tags option you can add widget tags separated by commas into the campaign widget by using the Widget tags you can set while creating campaigns in the Settings >> Campaigns menu.
- if the Match all tags option is enabled, all the entered tags must be an exact match with the widget tags of the campaigns.
- You created a campaign with a Widget tag: "APPLE"
- You created another campaign with a Widget tag: "BANANA"
- You created a third campaign with two Widget tags: ˇAPPLEˇ and "BANANA"
Then you filled the Campaign tags:
box with both of the tags like this:
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If the Match all tags option is disabled then the campaign widget will play all the 3 campaigns because all created campaign matches at least 1 tag from the box.
- But if you enable the Match all tags option, then only 1 campaign will be played because only 1 matched both of the tags from the
Campaign tags:
box.
- But if you enable the Match all tags option, then only 1 campaign will be played because only 1 matched both of the tags from the
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If the
With tags only
is option enabled, and the campaign tags box is empty, then the campaign will not play anything until the box contains at least 1 tag. If the option is disabled, and the box does not contain any tags then all active campaigns will be played in the widget until at least 1 element is entered.
The tags you can add to the Campaign tags
box are not compatible with the Screen tags; they will only function with the tags from the Widget tags
field of the campaign.
Proof of Play
With Proof of Play you can report information about the media assets displayed by this widget.
Size & Position
In the Size & Position Menu, you can select the width, height, and placement of your widget quickly.
Proof of Play
Proof of play is a reporting system, that allows you to gain report about used assets. If you turn on widget statistics you can report information about the displayed duration,number of displays and interaction events of this widget. If you turn on asset statistics you can report information about the displayed duration, number of displays and events of each media asset inside this widget
Properties >> Widget >> Other
Effects
In the Effects Menu you can select a 'Background image' or 'Color' to your widget.
Enabling the 'Click through' function allows you to click through the widget and interact with other widgets behind this one.
Here you can add a 'Shadow' and 'Border' to your widget.
Interaction
In the Interaction Menu you can set up end actions.
There are two types of events:
- Item started: The action executes when a campaign item has started playing.
- Item finished: The action executes when a campaign item has finished playing.
You can also display different properties of a campaign element using the Property of received value origin.
Supported property names:
- itemName: Displays the campaign element's full file name if it's a media/loop type campaign or if it's a content type campaign the name of the page the element is located on.
- fileType: The element's file type if it's a media/loop type campaign. (IMAGE,VIDEO,PDF)
- interactionType: The event type that is being triggered. (ITEM_STARTED/ITEM_FINISHED)
Example on how to display the currently playing campaign element's name using a text widget:
Additional Properties
Under the Interaction Menu you can click on the three dots which will show Additional Properties aka MORE.