Upload and play the spot

Once you’ve zipped the spot in the format spotname.asc.zip, you can upload it to the IXM Platform like any other spot via the upload manager.

Create variants of an HTML Wizard spot

If you activate the feature Allow variants (public) for the spot, users can create variants of the HTML Wizard spot.

These variants can be edited independently of the main spot and modified with values and media. The same website package is always accessed in the background to display the variant; a new JSON file is created for each variant.

Update an existing HTML Wizard spot

As soon as the data structure in the JSON file is changed, the HTML Wizard spot updating task must be performed with special care. If any features are added, removed, or edited, the spot and all variants of it are upgraded with the best matching of new and old features the next time the respective variant/spot is opened. It’s important for this that the feature SpotIdentifier is not changed.

Play the spot

When the spot is played, first the JSON data is loaded and transferred to the spot via a JavaScript method invocation. This should have no relevance for the HTML Wizard spot playback in the HTML Wizard, in a preview, or on the player. The different environmental parameters are abstracted from the file ascInterface.html by the HTML Wizard spot.

The file ascInterface.html is the link between the playback container and the spot. The playback container can be either a player, the preview, the HTML Wizard, or the browser for debugging. The file ascInterface.html has two tasks:

• It processes links to media depending on the playback container, so the spot doesn’t have to care which environment it will be played in.

• It scales the spot into the split screen, provided that width and height have been specified.

Playback in the preview

Playing the spot in the IXm Platform preview does not differ essentially from playing on the player, however, some data and player services might not be visible. The preview allows interactive spots to be controlled by the operator.

Play back on the player

For playback on the player, the file ascInterface.html is also invoked again to load the HTML Wizard spot. Before that, it transcribes the paths for the media to the corresponding local paths of the player. The following information is provided as URL parameters for the file ascInterface.html or the spot:

Playback on the development computer

Playback on an ordinary PC can simplify the development of HTML Wizard spots. To do so, you need the file ascInterface.html which you can find on the server via the following path and save locally via the browser: http://domain/gv2/gf/GFWebHtml/asc/ascinterface/ascinterface.html

To test the spot under player-like conditions you can invoke it as follows by way of the file ascInterface.html:

http://localhost/GFWeb/app/asc/ascInterface/ascInterface.html?site=../myProject/index.html&spotDataPath=../myProject/ascData.json&callerType=Debug&debug=true

../myProject is the path to your HTML directory, however, the JSON file can also be stored in a different place than the index.html (for example, to avoid amending the default values in the JSON file in the HTML directory for testing).