Scheduling Tips
Note: By default anything that can be scheduled is scheduled to Always play.
Scheduling beyond Midnight
Schedules are for a day (from 12:00am to 11:59pm). If you need to schedule an element to begin on the evening of one day, and end on the next day, you must either create two schedules: one for the first day, ending at 11:59:59 and the other beginning at 12:00:00, or use the PlanWeek or PaintWeek plugins.
Scheduling for use with Audience.billboard
When you want a template to be used in Audience.billboard for remote page creation, the template’s date range schedule must have a start date of Jan 1, 1980 and an end date of Dec 30 3000, which is the default.
Schedule a Magazine Instead of Multiple Pages
If you need a group of pages to play at specific times, consider creating and scheduling a magazine instead. Then cut/paste the pages into the new magazine, or create the pages directly in that magazine, and then schedule the magazine. This is ideal as you avoid having to schedule each page individually, and you have a better idea of what plays when, simply by looking at the magazine schedule.
Example
You play a Lost and Found or Real Estate segment every weekday between 1 and 2pm. Create a magazine that is scheduled to play at those times, and put all Lost and Found or Real Estate pages in that magazine's playlist. Raise the priority of the magazine so that it is above any magazine that is scheduled to play "always", and if no higher priority magazine conflicts, the magazine will always play between 1 and 2 on weekdays. It will cycle through all pages in its playlist.
You can easily schedule individual pages to play within a date range (say from Jan 1 to Jan 20).
Note: It is good practice to schedule a magazine for time ranges, and then individual pages for date ranges.