Alternate Tracks

[NestorC]

In Ad Properties, you have the possibiliy to use alternate tracks, the manual says:
"Tracks - assigning alternate tracks to commercials. Alternate ad tracks are used when creating blocks. When you add the ad track to a block, the ad track is selected (main or one of the alternate ones)."
The question is, what is the criteria to select tracks at the moment of the creation block ??

 

[djsoft]

This information is a bit outdated, because currently there are no "alternate tracks" there's just a list of track for every Ad. It chooses them randomly when building a list.

 

[NestorC]

Hi, back to this topic again.
Would it be possible to have the option to choose the tracks from this list either randomly, as it currently is, or ...
in the order they appear, to ensure the entire list can be used

 

[djsoft]

It actually does use all tracks, once all tracks are taken, it then reshuffles the list and selects all the tracks again, and so on.

 

[NestorC]

I ran this test and noticed that RB selects one track per day, for example, Monday track 1, Tuesday track 2… Friday track 5, and then it shuffles and starts over.
In my particular case, I would have preferred that it use the different tracks within the same day, and then shuffle and continue.

 

[djsoft]

I ran this test and noticed that RB selects one track per day, for example, Monday track 1, Tuesday track 2… Friday track 5, and then it shuffles and starts over.
In my particular case, I would have preferred that it use the different tracks within the same day, and then shuffle and continue.

The list is always reshuffled, so you should get different ads all the time.

 

[NestorC]

Is there any possibility to change or add an option that allows selecting the tracks from the list sequentially, one after another, until reaching the end, and then start over from the beginning?
In other words, to have the option to choose between sequential or random

 

[djsoft]

Is there any possibility to change or add an option that allows selecting the tracks from the list sequentially, one after another, until reaching the end, and then start over from the beginning?
In other words, to have the option to choose between sequential or random

Can you please specify when this is needed, as in any case all tracks are used before it starts to select the tracks again.

 

[NestorC]

According to the example I mentioned earlier, on Monday several repeated blocks are generated, and not all tracks are used.
I believe this happens because the method RB uses, is to generate all the blocks for a given ad across the whole week, instead of generating all the ads for a single day first.
Do you see what I mean?
What I’d like is that, for example, if I have 5 tracks for an ad and it has 5 airings per day, then each day the 5 different tracks are used.