Live Series Page Manual 3.0

Access to this menu in Betools through: Live > Live Series

The Series page is a variation of the Live page. Its purpose it to make it easier and more visual to Edit Series, Seasons, Episodes and its relationships.

This page brings a new element: the treeview. In this block it is possible to see the hierarchy between all the elements that belong to a Series. The page allows to edit one or more elements at once, by selecting them on the tree view. whenever more than element is selected the editing blocking will automatically enter in bulk edit mode.

There is also a Warning block, which runs a series of validations and display the conflicts to the user.

Only one information block can be edited at a certain time, so have in mind to save the current changes before moving to another block.

Blocks

Live series elements

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Series Elements information

When we select a single element, we can edit and save changes.

The save function verifies and applies the changes for each edited block.

Basic information

This block shows the detail of the works related to the live serie.

Basic information Live Serie

Field	Description	Restrictions
Name	Internal name for the live serie.	Mandatory
Owner	Name of creator.
Instance	Instance where the live serie belongs to.	Mandatory
Instance Age Rating	Age rating associated with this live serie.	Mandatory
Live Channel	Live Channel associated with this live serie.	Read only.
EPG Series ID	Pending	Read only.
Distributor	Live Serie distributor, identifying the provider of the live serie.	-
Description	Description to be displayed to the user
Creation Year	Year of production of this content
Country	Which country this live serie it will belong
Age Rating Reviewed	Pending
Requires Pin	Indicates if the Program requires PIN
Content Category	Name of content category associated with the live serie.
Source	Controls the access and visibility of this live serie for other operators. Only operators with rights over this source or its children will be able to see it.	Read only.

Images

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This block allows you to manage the images associated to the live channel and the information associated, such as the Type and Quality.

Also, the preview of all the associated images is displayed. It's possible to select/deselect all associated images and remove them.

Images block

Add new images

Upload image dialog

• Use the button and a new row will be added so you can upload the new image.
• Then click the button and a dialog will be open so you will be able to select the image to be uploaded.
• Now select the subtitle language and a name for the subtitle.
• Once finished, save changes by using the in the live channels page and the subtitle will be associated.

Add existing images

• Click the button and a dialog will open to select and existing image.
• Once finished, save changes by using the in the live channels page and the image will be associated.
  

Image preview

Remove images

• Use the button to remove the association of a image from the movie .
• Once finished, save changes by using the in the live channel page. This will not delete the image file from the platform. In order to delete the image, you will have to go to the Images Page.

Preview images
By clicking in the button in each image, you can access to the image preview.

Genres

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In this block, you can manage the genres associated to the live serie. It shows you the list of genres that are currently associated to this live serie. The order of genres is important, as most important genres are the first ones (this order will be kept when exporting them in catalog exporter).

Genres block

Associate new genres

• Use the button and a multiple genre selection dialog will open, allowing you to search and select genres that can be added.
• Select the genres to be added and press the button. The genres will be added to the live serie.
• To save changes, press the in the live serie page.

Delete genres from the live serie

• Use the button to remove all the genres desired.
• Once finished, save changes by using the in the live serie page.

Persons Roles

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This block allows configuring the persons (actors, director and etc) and their roles that are involved in the live serie:

Person roles block

Associate new Person role

• Use the button and a multiple Person Role selection dialog will open, allowing you to search and select persons roles to be added.
• Select the ones to be added and press the button. The Person Roles will be added to the live serie.
• To save changes, press the in the live serie page.

Note: From this menu, it is not possible to create new Person Roles. Please use the Persons page to create Persons and the Person Roles page to associate a role to them.

Delete Person roles from the movie

• Use the button to remove all the person roles desired.
• Once finished, save changes by using the in the live serie page.

Age descriptors

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Age Descriptors block

Pending

Actions

Create	Edit	Edit in List	Bulk Edit	Copy	Copy with Relateds	Delete

Create

Live Channel creation is not allowed to be done from MIB. Live Channels can only be created through EPG ingestion.

Edit

Live channel modifications are enabled for some operator profiles (EPG Manager, OB Admin). It can be used to perform modifications in some of the Live Channel related data.

Edit in List

Edit in list is disabled for Live Channels for security reasons. You have to go to Edit Page to perform any modification.

Bulk Edit

Bulk Edit is disabled in the Live Channels page.

Copy

Copy is disabled for Live Channels as their creation from MIB is not allowed.

Copy with Relateds

Copy with Relateds is disabled for Live Channels page.

Delete

Delete is disabled for Live Channels page.