Approval of Content

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Overview

In a Dise Enterprise system is it possible to use Dise Composer and Dise Bridge with content approval.

The main concept of approval is to manage a Dise Movie so that it is not sent out to the players unless it is approved by someone with enough rights. After something has been approved it can no longer be changed and then sent out unless you now approve this new version.

Approval process

This requires that you are using Dise Enterprise.

Dise Composer

1. Create a Dise Movie in the Composer as you normally do.

2. From File > Dise Complete select Check In Movie.

3. The Dise Movie will now be of version 1.0, as you can see in the Composer title bar.

4. Every time you save the Dise Movie your minor (1.0) version number will be incremented by one. 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and so on.

5. To update the major (1.0) version number you can use the Create New Version option from the Dise Complete menu in the Composer.

6. When the Dise Movie is ready to be sent out you can use the Approve option from the Dise Complete menu in the Composer to set the approval level of this Dise Movie. If you do not have enough rights to change the approval level you need to inform someone who does to approve the content.

7. As soon the content is approved and sent out, you can start to work on the Dise Movie again, but as soon as you save the approval will have to be repeated once more to be able to send out the new version.

Dise Bridge

When you add a Dise Movie that is version controlled into Dise Bridge a version number will appear, and Dise Bridge will now only use this version of this Dise Movie until you remove or replace it with a later version.

In the list of Dise Movies you will see the Approval Level of each Dise Movie, and you will have to wait until the Dise Movie is approved before sending it out to the players.

To select a specific version of a Dise Movie file, select Add or Edit and then set the Files of type option to Dise Movie (Dise Complete). Then look in the folder _disever that you will find in the same directory as the Dise Movie file. Here you will find a list of all Dise Movies with version numbers, and you can select any of these.

To use the latest version of a Dise Movie you have already put in, right click on it and select Edit, then instead of specifying a specific version, select the latest Dise Movie (.evs) file directly.

Approval level configuration

In the Users tab of the Dise Complete Manager you will find options to configure the approval level for each user in the Dise Complete system.

Custom approval levels

It is also possible to customize the approval levels, this is done directly in the Dise Complete database. Take a look into the ApprovedLevel table in your Dise Complete database. Here you can change the different levels (between 0 and 255) and the names. You can also adjust the colors for each level. RGB color is used (0-255).

View versioned Dise Movies

To view all your versioned Dise Movies you can use the Dise CMS application.

Composer approval notifications

Send Approval Notification can be used to automatically send out notification e-mails to the people responsible of approving content. These settings are currently edited directly into the Dise Composer settings file (Composer.settings):

Note: The settings for approval changed in the 1.6.10 version of Dise, to view the settings for earlier versions, use this link: http://kb.displayevolution.com/index.php?title=Approval_of_Content&oldid=1790 (6 July 2009).

Example:

DiseCompleteEmail
{
   Host="smtp.server.com"
   Port=25
   FromAddress="disecomplete@system.com"
   FromName="Dise Complete System"
   Subject="Approval Notification" 
   To="Dise Complete Users"
   ToEmail="support@displayevolution.com"
   Message="The Dise Movie #FILENAME# needs to be approved.%0A%0DRegards, #USER#." 
   HTMLMessage="<html><body>The Dise Movie <a href=%22#FILENAME#%22>#FILENAME#</a> needs to be approved.<br>Regards, #USER#.</body></html>" 
}

Host

SMTP server to be used for sending the e-mail.

Port

Port to use on the SMTP Server, usually 25.

FromAddress

Address to be used as the from address.

FromName

The text that should be displayed in the From field of the e-mail.

Subject

Subject of these e-mails

To

The text that should be displayed in the To field of the e-mail.

ToEmail

The recipient e-mail addresses to send the e-mail to.

It is possible to specify several recipient e-mail addresses by separating them with "%0A%0D".

Ex: "support@displayevolution.com%0A%0Dreplyto@displayevolution.com"

Message

The message that the e-mail should contain.

The Message can contain the following macros "#FILENAME#" is replaced with the Dise Movie filename in question. "#USER#" is replaced by the current user. "%0A%0D" is replaced by a new line.

HTMLMessage

As above, but in HTML form, if left empty only the Text message will be sent.

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