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Version 4.1 | Published May 27, 2019 ©

Working with Ticker Actions

Ticker actions are used to automate the playout and control of tickers.

In order to automate playout of tickers you first need to export available ticker actions from your Viz Multichannel client in the MCR. When ticker actions are exported you can import them to your Viz Multichannel client in the scheduling department. This will allow you to schedule ticker actions as secondary events and test playout of tickers from scheduling.

Note: As of Viz Multichannel 2.8 and Media Sequencer 2.0.1 and higher, a Take will put the ticker in state ON in Viz Ticker3D, and a Take Out will set it in state OFF. This also allows you to set Duration for a Ticker Action command.

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Export Ticker Actions

This procedure takes the ticker action’s structure in the Media Sequencer and virtually maps its XML structure (i.e. without the logic) for use by Viz Multichannel in scheduling mode.

The export is performed on the Media Sequencer where the real ticker resides (i.e. Viz Multichannel in MCR mode).

To Export Ticker Actions

  1. Click the Actions menu on the Main Menu.

  2. Select Ticker and then Export...

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  3. Use the default path (or select another) and click OK.
    You may enter the Viz Ticker buttons path in the Media Sequencer’s VDOM structure.

  4. Enter a file name and click Save.

Import Ticker Actions

This procedure imports only a virtual version of the ticker actions (i.e. without its logic). Before you can import ticker actions you must Export Ticker Actions.

To Import Ticker Actions

  1. Click the Actions menu on the Main Menu.

  2. Select Ticker and then Import... .

  3. Select the file to import and click Open.

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    The ticker actions are displayed in the left pane.

IMPORTANT! The Ticker actions that are read from the imported Ticker XML-file needs to have ON or OFF (capital or lowercase will both work) in the ticker button-name for the action to be imported correctly. For example will ticker-buttons named All ON, All of and Command ON all import correctly, while buttons named for example Engine IN or Engine OUT will not import correctly.

Scheduling Ticker Actions Manually

Ticker actions, as for pages and other actions, can be manually added to the playlist as secondary events.

To Manually Schedule Tickers

Scheduling Tickers Actions Automatically

Ticker actions, as for pages and other actions, can be automatically added to the playlist as secondary events the same way as for pages. In addition you can add them through import rules.

Note that all actions (as for pages) can be mapped to via a schedule by referring to the action’s name while mapped as a secondary event (see the Table Columns’ secondary_page setting).

To Automatically Schedule Tickers

  • Use the name of the ticker actions in your schedule.

To Define a Rule on a Ticker Command

  1. Select your channel.

  2. Click the Rules button.

  3. Continue with the procedures in the Working with Rules section.

Playing Tickers Manually

This procedure is performed on Viz Multichannel in MCR where the real tickers reside.

To Manually Play Tickers

  1. Select your channel.

  2. Click the Actions button.

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  3. Right-click the command which you want to play and select Run Command.