Myriad Schedule and Schedule Plus User Guide

Modified on Tue, 24 Sep at 2:13 PM

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