The Programmer is separated into various areas for a user-friendly application: The header, the scheduling grid and the data source. With the button Maximize it is possible to enlarge the window to screen size. In the following all sections of the main window will be explained:

Header

The first horizontal bar beneath the title bar in the Programmer is the header. By clicking on one of the tabs or buttons, you can do different actions. Nearly all functions can be reached in this menu (some options can only be activated by a right-mouse click). See more in chapter 2 Header.

Scheduling Grid

Each graphical scheduling window always shows a section of the overall schedule of a channel. The scheduling window displays the calendar days in the horizontal axis and the time on the vertical axis. Depending on the selected channel, start date and number of days, the loaded plan section is larger or smaller, ranging from 1 day to a year. You can zoom in and out of the program plan via the various zooms. A scheduling grid makes it easier to position the elements within the plan. Its intervals vary according to the selected zoom level. The displayed time intervals (hours and minutes) also vary according to the used zoom level (15 minutes to 1 minute intervals). The horizontal calendar axis also displays events such as „Christmas“, „Easter“ etc. (top part of the scheduling window).

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Special events that are shown at the top of the scheduling window can be opened and closed according to the user‘s needs. If several special events have been specified for the selected period of time, a „plus“ sign appears next to the field „Events“. You can open the list containing all events by clicking on this „plus“ sign. The open list can be closed by clicking on the „minus“ sign.

All events are displayed as graphical rectangles which can be moved and positioned via the mouse. Various scheduling wizard and functions are of assistance such as coloring the events according to certain criteria, aligning events in slots, reducing the size of events (narrow events) to view the template schedule in the background. etc.). You can open several scheduling windows of different channels/different calender periods simultaneously. Here, you need to consider that only one user can edit a program schedule while it is blocked via write-protection for any other user (yet it can be opened in reading mode). In addition you may open the write-protection slot-wise while the rest of the program schedule is blocked. The aim of the Programmer is to create a „complete“ program schedule for the various services.

Data Sources

The data sources in the Programmer represent your source for scheduling programs and series into the program schedule. The schedule-able elements can be positioned in the plan via drag and drop out of the various tabs of the data sources. All data sources tabs contain lists which can be arranged and filtered according to your needs. In addition to the standard tabs you can also open folder tabs in the data sources which offer further program or series versions for scheduling. The data sources bar also contains a general search tab, informs on the scheduling status and on the modifications made.

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The data in all Media Applications are saved in the same database, thus you have access to all data that are saved in the ContentExplorer and Programmer. With the right-mouse menu in the Programmer you can open the ContentExplorer dialogs for programs and series.