Recurring Events

When programming events including Playout, Playlist, Switch, Stream, Input, Record, Overlay, Slide, Ad Trigger, there is a Recurring? checkbox option to repeat that event at regular intervals. When the Recurring? option is selected, you can click the Add Recurrence link to add one more more Recurrence Rules that define the repeating pattern. Multiple Recurrence Rules can be chained together for complex patterns. To remove a Recurrence Rule, click the red remove circle in the upper right. There is a one-year limit on recurring events. Each Recurrence Rule supports the following fields.

HC Recurrence Rules

Recurrence Rules

  • Start Date – Use a Calendar icon to select the first day for the recurring event.
  • End – Select End On and use a Calendar icon to select the last day for the recurring event. Or Select End After and enter a specific number of occurrences.
  • Type – Select Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. Weekly will present Day of the Week options to pick specific days, and Monthly will additionally present Week of the Month options to pick specific weeks.
  • Time – Enter the recurring event start time in HH:MM:SS format using 24-hour time. For example, 1:00 PM is 13:00:00.
  • Repeat Every – Select from the pull down to define the repeating pattern based on the Type selected.

View Recurrence

  • To see the recurrence schedule of a content file, select that file
  • Go to the Events tab
  • The Recurring Events table will show the schedule rule for the recurring event

  • You can Cancel the entire recurring event, or Edit under the Actions. Editing will show the individual events where you can individually modify or unschedule, or unschedule all.

  • You can also view and edit a recurring schedule from the Classic Programming page. Under the Rule column, click the Recur link on a recurring event to open the schedule of each associated event.

Edit a Recurring Event

Modifying a recurring event will bring up a prompt asking if the user wants to change all events in the recurrence, or just the one event.

If a single event is changed without updating the entire recurrence, the event will be removed from the recurrence schedule excluding it from further changes to that recurrence.