Schedule
This is primarily Tv/Radio program schedule plug-in but you may use the plug-in to schedule anything you want, such as events, cinema projections or sport matches on a sport season schedule.
Description
Versatile and flexible plug-in designed primarily for TV/Radio program schedule, but it can be used to schedule anything you want - events, cinema projections or sport matches on a sport season schedule. You can make nodes (articles) appear (and recur) on the schedule on a particular date and be automatically removed from the schedule on another date. In other words, you can set a TV show that will start on next Wednesday at 7PM and will broadcast once a week at the same time. Each episode lasts 90 minutes and the show will stop showing in 7 months. This all can be set at once and the show will be on the TV schedule on Wednesday at 7PM until it stops showing on TV.
For general install and uninstall instructions, please refer to Manage plug-ins section of user guide.
Access
The path to the Scheduler plug-in:
Choose Plug-ins from the secondary administrative menu located at the top right side in your web browser right above the main administrative menu.
Choose Scheduler plug-in from the list of all installed plug-ins (on the left side of the screen).
User level
This plug-in can be accessed only by users belonging to groups that are allowed to manage Scheduler plug-in.
Actions
Plug-in preferences
- Schedule URL - Schedule is by default accessible via http://www.example.com/schedule however you can rename this URL on Preferences tab and place something like TV-program, radio-schedule etc.
- Schedule Template - Choose a layout for the schedule from the drop-down list.
Create custom schedule template and upload it to VIVVO_TEMPLATE_DIR/schedule/ folder
Set topics and tags
Use tags/topics for grouping items that has something in common (like channel or rating) so you can, for example, see a program for any particular channel or list only horror movies or even make a selection of all documentary movies with HD quality on a program this weekend.
For better understanding a couple of topics/tags are predefined and come with the plug-in installation.
For more information, please refer to Topics & Tags section of user guide.
Schedule an article
Choose Articles section from your Vivvo administration and click on the "Add new article" link if you want to add a new article with schedule, or choose to edit an article from the list if you want to schedule an existing article. Schedule tab should appear next to "Edit article" tab, just click on it to edit schedule preferences for the article you are creating/editing.
- Scheduled for - Automatically picks current date and time and by clicking on the calendar icon you edit the day and time the item starts.
- Duration - Enter how many minutes the item lasts.
- Recurrence and Terminates - These optional fields refer to items that recur, for example, every day, every working day, once a week etc. First choose a recurrence interval, then choose an ending date the same way you picked the starting date. In case that you don't specify Terminates date, that article will be recurring for ever.
Recurrence interval
There is a special format for entering article recurrence:
Minute Hour Day Month Weekday (each must be separated by space).
For easier setting recurrence interval there is a scheduler dialog where you'll select when the article will recur. Just click on the scheduler icon 
and in a pop-up window you'll be able to choose minute, hour, day, weekday and month.
- Minute - Minute of the hour, 00 to 59.
- Hour - Hour of the day in 24-hour format, 00 to 23.
- Day - Day of the month, 1 to 31 (the job will not run if the day doesn't exist in the current month).
- Month - Month of the year, 1 to 12.
- Weekday - Day of the week, Mon to Sun.
You have some predefined values but you may also define time that fits you best and schedule your article to recur as often as you need.
Example:
We want the article to recur every day at 2AM (every day/weekday and every month)
In our example we scheduled a show that will broadcast 10 months every working day starting from June 26 at 11:00 AM and each episode lasts 30 minutes.
