Some requests for future updates

[djsoft]

Action: this displays the day number, day, hour or minute of the profile and the path of the file on the computer. It does not enlarge the playlists and it actually misses, in my opinion, the most important thing: the elements, the spots…

Yes, this is what can be improved - expand playlists, maybe containers also to allow to see what happens. Probably show it in a separate (Preview Event) window.

Starting from the proposal for a pop-up window mentioned above, I suggest adding a new “preview (or another name)” tab which would satisfy a large part of us.

Do you mean a tab in the work zone? If so how will it know what event to display? It may be added to the Scheduler tab (as an option), e.g. below the list, to show the selected event's contents. With items either expanded, or with buttons to quickly expand the needed items.

 

[djsoft]

1) Add tabs or collapsible sections in the Event Scheduler to show only ad blocks (events).

This can be implemented as a filter - I mean adding more filter options to filter by name and in this case entering [AdsScheduler] will leave only ads events.

2) Each block would appear as a clickable header that can expand or collapse to reveal the individual elements (ads, jingles, commands, etc.) contained inside.

Problem with this is that it's a scheduled events list and expanding like this, adding lines that are not events but actually event actions, is not a good UI idea. Please see in the above post maybe you will like the idea of a Preview Panel for the events?

It’s not a major functional change — just a visual and workflow improvement that would make daily sch
eduling much more intuitive.

Yes, I agree. So for now I will add for the future versions to extend the filters: show only today's events and filter by event name.

 

[Guillaume]

Do you mean a tab in the work zone? If so how will it know what event to display? It may be added to the Scheduler tab (as an option), e.g. below the list, to show the selected event's contents. With items either expanded, or with buttons to quickly expand the needed items.

Yes, it would be in the work area. Sorry, I didn't specify that.
Or a preview panel. Or a separate Scheduler window that appears when you select an option…

This involves displaying AdSheduler events in the form of blocks, each of which includes:

• The name of the profile
• The scheduled departure time
• The total duration of the block
• The elements and their respective durations

There would be display options (filters): choice of day, choice of time slot, profile name, etc.
(see screenshot)

The idea is to view in detail what has been planned in the AdSheduler according to our choice of day and time slot (with a “Now” option to immediately view the blocks for the next 60 or 120 or 180 minutes for example).

Also, display the durations of each element and especially the total duration of a block.
This is important to allow me to calculate the actual hour length of the playlist when we are live.
The indication of time in the playlist does not take into account the duration of all the events that will be added to the hour as well as the duration of the DJ speak.
The purpose of this duration display would be, for me, to make it easier to calculate an hour.

Data comes from AdSheduler. The formatting proposed in the screenshot should obviously be reviewed to highlight each block.

I think we should create a window dedicated to this type of visualization.
Whether in a work area tab or in Scheduler. No matter, as long as it is easily accessible, understandable and immediately readable.
Because I may have future users of my radio who feel lost seeing a multitude of lines from the event planner.

The proposals mentioned above, as well as the filters to achieve this result, seem to me to go in the right direction. Thank you for taking our wishes into consideration and taking care of the setup.


A quick aside: I mentioned the calculation of time above and I would like to take this opportunity to confirm that the arrival of Time Stretch in version 7.1 is a great step forward in achieving almost perfect hours. But it would be necessary to set up an option to indicate the periods of operation of the Time Stretch in an hour in relation to events among others. I mentioned it during the Beta version and I maintain my point of view.

 

[djsoft]

I'm not sure if creating a separate tab type is worth the effort (and it does look like duplicate feature), I think the better solution would be to allow customizing the existing Scheduler tab to allow displaying additional information, like adding Duration column and quickly viewing what's inside the event.

 

[Guillaume]

I'm not sure if creating a separate tab type is worth the effort (and it does look like duplicate feature), I think the better solution would be to allow customizing the existing Scheduler tab to allow displaying additional information, like adding Duration column and quickly viewing what's inside the event.

Ok, no worries. Your suggestion and @xzsaimon16 ’s are fine with me