Advanced Dayparting
Posted: 17 Oct 2015 10:05
Been using the v4.0 Scripting Restrictions to do simple dayparting. The current set up only allows very limited interaction between the filters (date,day of week, time, month). I'd love to be able to restrict both Month and Day at the same time, such as restrict to December and 11th to 24th. Or time and day of week: Mon-Fri 9pm to 6am and Sat-Sun any time.
I'm not sure if the current Scripting Restrictions can accommodate this. If you are able to expand that screen to implement full control over combinations of date, day, day of the week, month and time restrictions at track level -->the result would be very advanced dayparting control (i don't think even RCS Selector includes all 5 variables).
A real cadillac version would allow the user to define Dayparting Rules (because 99% of the time only a few basic rules are re-used). For example: Weekday Evenings and Weekends (Mon - Fri 9pm to 6 am and Sat-Sun any time), Seasonal - Christmas (December and 11th to 24th). And then link these rules to the tracks. However, i'll take anything that gets me closer to being able to control the clock.
By the way, I do realize that this can already be accomplished in ProppFrexx. However, all solutions that I came up with either required too much manual intervention & maintenance (e.g. creating special scripts and scheduling them in/out, dayparted libraries, etc) or required overly cumbersome code (id use conditional scripting and test Date/Time).
Let me know if this is something that you may consider for a future version. Also can you suggest any other ways to accomplish this already with the current version?
I'm not sure if the current Scripting Restrictions can accommodate this. If you are able to expand that screen to implement full control over combinations of date, day, day of the week, month and time restrictions at track level -->the result would be very advanced dayparting control (i don't think even RCS Selector includes all 5 variables).
A real cadillac version would allow the user to define Dayparting Rules (because 99% of the time only a few basic rules are re-used). For example: Weekday Evenings and Weekends (Mon - Fri 9pm to 6 am and Sat-Sun any time), Seasonal - Christmas (December and 11th to 24th). And then link these rules to the tracks. However, i'll take anything that gets me closer to being able to control the clock.
By the way, I do realize that this can already be accomplished in ProppFrexx. However, all solutions that I came up with either required too much manual intervention & maintenance (e.g. creating special scripts and scheduling them in/out, dayparted libraries, etc) or required overly cumbersome code (id use conditional scripting and test Date/Time).
Let me know if this is something that you may consider for a future version. Also can you suggest any other ways to accomplish this already with the current version?