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