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📅 Playlist Building / Weekly Schedule

Creating and managing a weekly schedule in vTask is simple and flexible. Here's how it works:

🛠️ Creating a Weekly Schedule

To begin:

  • Add at least one item to the playlist.
  • Click Save — this action generates a weekly structure by creating a folder named after your project file in the same location.

Inside this folder, you'll find:

  • Seven .json files — each named after a day of the week.
  • Each file contains the playlist for that specific day.

📆 Daily Playlist Management

Next to the "Add Loop" button, you'll see the current day and date displayed.
This corresponds to one of the JSON files in the weekly folder.

  • vTask automatically loads the playlist for the current day.
  • To manually reload today's playlist, click the looping circle icon next to the "Edit Schedule" button.

🔁 Reminder:
Clicking the looping circle icon will replace the current playlist with the current day's content.

✏️ Editing the Schedule

You have two ways to edit playlists:

🟢 Current Day

  • Edit directly in the main playlist view.

📂 Other Days

  • Click the "Edit Schedule" button to open the mini playlist editor.
  • Use the dropdown menu to switch between days.
  • After making changes, save within the mini editor before switching days — otherwise, your changes will be lost.

⏱️ Locking Items

To schedule items at exact times:

  • Use the lock check-box next to any playlist item.
  • Locked items will retain their time, and subsequent items will auto-adjust to fit around them.

📤 Copying Content Between Days

To duplicate a day's playlist:

  1. In the mini editor, use the "Save As" option on the save button to export the playlist as a .tsk file.
  2. To import:
  3. Click "Add Input" > "Add Media", or
  4. Drag and drop the .tsk project file directly into the playlist.

🚀 Going Live

Once your schedule is ready and your playlist is configured:

  • Click the Start button to begin live playback.

✅ This will activate the current playlist and begin output across your configured channels.

If the schedule doesn't kick in automatically:

  • Click the Retime button to force the timing recalculation and trigger playback.

⚠️ Important:
If your scheduled items are note due to play yet, AutoPlay from folder will activate based on your AutoPlay configuration settings. See AutoPlay Settings for playing from folder