Myriad Schedule and Schedule Plus v5 User Guide

Introduction

Attached to this article is the full Myriad Schedule and Schedule Plus v5 User Guide.

This user guide contains all the information about Myriad Schedule and how to use it to get the best from the Myriad Scheduling system including:

• How to add new media and edit existing media to mark them as songs/links/adverts etc. and how to make them schedulable
• Setting up your Attributes, including Categories and Tags, and for Schedule Plus, Types, Genders and Eras
• How to setup your Clocks and Clock Assignment grids
• Full information on all the different types of Clock items such as Media items, Songs, Links, Advert Breaks, Soft Times, Absolute Times, Hardware events and much more
• How to setup your Station Rules
• How to schedule and setup automatic scheduling
• How to configure your Advert Breaks and Adverts for optimum scheduling using the build in Advert Scheduler
• Running reports to help check and verify the rotations that your setup is using.
• If even covers User Security and how to make sure your station and scheduling information is secure, and only available to the users that you select.

This guide was last updated on the 3rd December 2021 to include all the new information on Station Rules and the all new Advert Scheduler.

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The list below includes all the topics covered in the manual along with the page number for each topic.

Table of Contents

Introduction. 8

Myriad Schedule. 8

Myriad Schedule Plus. 9

Standalone Myriad Schedule Applications vs Built Into Myriad Playout. 10

Standalone Application. 10

Accessing Myriad Schedule From Within Myriad Playout. 10

Standard vs Enhanced Scheduling. 15

Standard Scheduling (Most Rested Based). 15

Enhanced Scheduling (Deck Based). 15

Switching Between Standard & Enhanced Scheduling. 16

Fundamentals Of Scheduling. 18

Basic Orientation & Quick Guide. 20

Importing Clocks, Rules, Categories & Media Items from AutoTrack Standard SE. 25

Import Clocks & Assignments. 25

Import Category names. 29

Import Rules. 32

Import Clock Rules. 34

Import Clock + Global Rules. 36

Importing Media Items (Carts) From AutoTrack SE. 38

Manually adding & editing Categories & Attributes. 44

Categories (Song / Link / Advert / News). 47

Adding & editing Categories. 47

Tags. 49

Adding & editing Tags. 50

Types (Myriad Schedule Plus only). 52

Adding & editing Types. 52

Genders (Myriad Schedule Plus only). 53

Adding & editing Genders. 54

Eras (Myriad Schedule Plus only). 55

Adding & editing Eras. 55

Advert Collision Tags. 57

Adding Advert Collision Tags. 57

Songs & Links. 59

Adding New Songs & Links. 59

Using Media Ranges to assign Item Types (Songs, Links, Adverts etc). 60

Manually assigning Item Types. 61

Manually assigning Categories to Songs & Links. 64

Setting Primary Category. 64

Setting Secondary Category. 67

Manually Setting Tags for Songs & Links. 68

Setting Tags. 68

Types (Myriad Schedule Plus only). 70

Setting Types. 70

Genders (Myriad Schedule Plus only). 71

Setting Genders. 71

Eras (Myriad Schedule Plus only). 73

Setting Eras. 73

Separate Category & Attributes In Multi Station Environments. 74

Enabling Per-Station Categorisation. 74

Changing Categories & Attributes Per Station. 76

Changing Categories & Attributes for media items per station. 77

Mass Changing Item Types, Categories & Attributes. 79

Allowing / Disallowing Songs & Links to be scheduled. 84

Mass Changing whether Songs Links & Adverts can be included in Scheduling. 87

Finding Songs, Links or Adverts that can / can’t be scheduled. 92

Hour Restrictions (Songs & Links Only). 94

Hour Restriction Presets. 95

Applying Hour Restrictions to multiple Media Items at once. 99

The Rights Tab. 102

The Other Tab. 102

Bound Media Items. 103

Song / Link Start & End Dates. 104

Mass Changing Start & End Dates. 105

Song & Link Deck Viewer. 105

Viewing Song & Link Category Decks. 106

Moving Items Between Category Decks. 108

Manual Shuffles. 109

Automatic Shuffles & Kicks (Schedule Plus only). 110

Adverts. 114

Fundamentals Of Advert Scheduling. 114

Enabling Advert Scheduling. 114

Limiting Break Duration / Advert Count. 117

Adding Adverts. 117

Setting Media Type To Advert. 119

Advertiser Name. 119

Setting Advert Category. 120

Setting Collision Tags For Adverts. 121

The Advert Tab (Adverts Only). 123

Enabling Adverts To Schedule. 124

Requested Plays. 124

Saving & Applying Requested Play Presets. 126

Start / End Dates. 127

Use Tail Media Item.. 128

Other Options. 128

Advert Management. 129

Advert Reports. 129

Log Reports. 131

View Play History For Advert. 133

Media Management. 135

Media Grid. 136

Media Import Wizard. 137

Media Report. 145

Item History. 146

Clocks. 149

Simple Clocks. 149

What is a Simple Clock?. 150

Adding a Simple Clock. 155

Advanced Clocks (Myriad Schedule). 164

Adding an Advanced Clock. 166

Building Contents Of An Advanced Clock. 170

Song & Link Category Goals in Advanced Clocks. 222

Number of Songs & Estimated Duration. 226

Advanced Clocks (Myriad Schedule Plus). 226

Setting Types. 226

Setting Genders. 227

Setting Eras. 228

“Must Not Have Tags”. 228

Year Scheduling. 229

Extended Rules On Song Category Goals Tabs. 230

Copy, Edit & Delete Clocks. 232

Copy Clocks. 232

Import / Export Clocks. 235

Edit an existing Clock. 238

Deleting a Clock. 239

Converting Simple Clocks to Advanced Clocks (and vice versa). 240

Assigning Clocks. 244

Assigning Clocks to Hours. 247

Drag and Drop Clocks. 247

Assigning a Clock to multiple hours. 248

Fill Empty. 250

Removing Clocks From Hours. 250

Removing selected Clocks from hours. 250

Clear all Clock Assignments. 251

Importing & Exporting Clock Assignments. 251

Station Rule Sets. 253

Setting Your Default Station Rules. 253

Editing Station Rules. 256

Station Rules Name. 257

Basic Orientation. 258

Song Categories > Category Goals. 259

Song Categories > Category Rules. 261

Song Tags > Tag Goals. 271

Link Categories > Category Goals. 272

Link Categories > Category Rules. 273

Link Tags > Tag Goals. 274

Song Types > Type Goals (Schedule Plus only). 275

Song Types > Type Follow Rules (Schedule Plus only). 278

Song Gender > Gender Goals (Schedule Plus only). 279

Song Gender > Gender Follow Rules. 280

Song Era > Era Goals (Schedule Plus only). 281

Song Era > Era Follow Rules (Schedule Plus only). 282

Link Types, Genders & Era Rules (Schedule Plus only). 283

Copying Station Rule Sets. 285

Delete Station Rules Set. 288

Assigning Station Rule Sets To Clocks. 289

Checking What Station Rules Sets Are Assigned To Clocks. 290

Scheduling Content. 292

Manually adding an Hour to the Log (Fill This Hour). 292

Manually scheduling X days ahead. 294

Set Time Date Range. 295

Schedule Options Button. 296

Selective Category Scheduling. 297

Changing The Pass Order (Schedule Plus only). 299

Scheduling. 300

Un-Scheduling. 303

Scheduling or Un-Scheduling Just Adverts. 308

Save / Load Presets & Default Preset. 311

Automatically scheduling X hours or days ahead. 316

View Log Hour Information. 318

View Log. 319

Replacing Items In The Log. 320

Play Logs. 321

The Play Logs Report. 322

Copyright Reports. 324

Preview Player. 328

Reports Menu. 329

Media Reports. 329

Play Logs. 330

Duplicate Media Finder. 330

Scheduling Analysis. 331

Top Rule Fails Per Hour (Song). 332

Top Rule Fails Per Hour (Link). 333

Scheduled Log Reports. 333

Schedule Log Hour Information. 334

Schedule Log Summary. 335

Log Warnings Report. 335

Log Discrepancies Report. 336

Station Reports. 337

Station Information. 338

System Reports. 338

Database File Statistics. 339

SQL Database Files Information. 339

Security Menu. 340

Changing Stations. 345

More Information   346

 

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Revised 28/06/2022 - Revision E