Schedule your announcements
  • 09 Apr 2024
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Article Summary

Plan your regular announcements with the Announcement scheduler so you can automate part of your generic announcements. Once your schedules are configured, you can easily track all schedules for announcement playback in the Planned announcement tab. The existing schedules can then be modified or disabled from both Announcement scheduler and Planned announcement tabs.

To automize your flight-related announcements, please contact the Simpleway team at cloud@simpleway.global .

Topics covered
  • Announcement scheduler tab
  • Planned announcements tab

TUTORIAL STEPS:

A) Announcement scheduler tab

  1. Open the Announcement scheduler tab.
  2. Click the New schedule button.

Note: Already available schedules will be visible in the list with their statuses.  





B) Announcement selection

The window for announcement schedule configuration is opened:
  1. Name your schedule.
  2. Click the Select announcement button. A new window opens with the list of announcements. 
  3. Select the Announcement which shall be scheduled. Once you have selected the announcement, additional fields for configuration appear: Select the languages, Announcement preview, and Select priority.

C) Schedule configuration

  1. This section is for selecting the languages in which the scheduled announcement will be transmitted.
  2. Select priority of you announcement.
  3.  Preview your announcement before playback.  
  4.  Frequencies at which the schedule can be played are configured in the Set repetition section. 
  5. Select zones by ticking the respective checkboxes where you want your announcement to be transmitted. 
  6. Click the Save button. 


Note 1:A transcript of the announcement is available for the selected language. You can use the "Ear" button to pre-listen the announcement. 
Note 2: See the end of this manual for more information about repetition types.
D) The schedule you created is visible on the main page.
 

Edit, Delete or Disable your schedule with the three-dots or by simple click on the item.









E) Planned announcements
  1. Open the Planned announcements tab.
  2. Find your scheduled announcement/s. 










F) Announcement history in the Queue tab
Once the scheduled announcement triggers, find your announcement in the Queue tab at the top of the table or use the sorting icon of the CREATED column.







Repetition types:

Once
Scheduling only for one time announcement
Multiple times
The announcement can be repeated several times within a period determined in minutes
Each 
Repeating the announcement every x minutes
Daily 
The announcement is played at a specific time each day
Weekly 
Week days and hour can be selected when the announcement shall be played
Daily in interval
Repetitive announcement (i.e. do not smoke, advertisement etc.), period, time and repetition in minutes is stated
Weekly in interval
Week days are selected in addition to the previous option
Monthly
Month and days and hour can be selected when the announcement shall be played
Monthly in interval
In addition to the previous option also valid time is selected
Specific Times
Custom date and time can be selected and multiple entries can be added

"Valid from - to" constraints:

In addition to the date and time restrictions specific to repetition types, there are also general date and time restrictions specified in the following two fields:

  1. "Valid from" - allows you to play the scheduled announcement no earlier than the selected date and time.
  2. "to" - allows you to play the scheduled announcement not later than the selected date and time.

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