Create sessions

Learn how to create sessions within the DIVA Back Office video scheduler.*

This article explains how to create, paste, and publish sessions within DIVA Back Office. For an introduction and a general overview, read our video scheduler introduction article.

The following topics are covered here:

• Create sessions
• Paste sessions
• Publish sessions

Create sessions

Manually schedule live sessions via APIs or from within DIVA Back Office’s scheduler UI (User Interface). Channels in DIVA Back Office are linked to a video acquisition point via a configuration file (there is no Back Office UI layer for this).

The example below details how sessions are manually scheduled:

1. Navigate to the scheduler using the side menu.
2. Position your cursor over the required date, time, and channel (these details can be changed later) and double-click to create a new session in a new dialog.

DIVA scheduler view:

New session dialog:

DETAIL tab:

1. Enter/configure new session data into the DETAIL tab.

 

CATEGORIES tab:

1. Select the add icon to add custom categories.
2. Enter data into the Key and Value fields.

Style the scheduler through custom categories to visually distinguish between sessions. Custom category styling is configurable on a per-project basis; options can include:

• Key: Operation-mode
• Value: e.g.:
  • Unpublished
  • Non-eyes-on-glass
  • Eyes-on-glass

ATTRIBUTES tab:

1. Select the ATTRIBUTES tab to add Videodata and Custom attributes.
2. Select the add icon in the relevant accordion to add details.

SIGNALING/ADVANCED tab:

1. Select the SIGNALING/ADVANCED tab. This tab is visible for clients using Live Harmonic channels.
2. Select the save icon. On save, the newly added session appears on the scheduler. Read the publish session section below for more information on the auto-publish functionality.
   
   From the scheduler view, right-click on a session to edit and manage.

Paste sessions

Quickly create a new session or easily move an existing session using the paste functionality.

1. Right-click on a session to display options
2. Select copy

3. Position your cursor over the required date, time, and channel (these details can be changed later) and double-click to create a new session.

4. Select the paste icon. Data from the copied session populates the New Session dialog. Information displays at the top of the dialog detailing changes, e.g., if pasting the copied session into a different channel to the source.

5. Select the save icon. On save, the newly added session appears on the scheduler. Read the publishing sessions section below for more information on the auto-publish functionality.

Publish sessions

When saving a new session, selecting the auto-publish toggle automatically publishes the session to the integrated CMS if this workflow has been configured.

Note: If a session is deleted from the video scheduler, the asset is also deleted from the video catalog.