Processing Time & Digital Signage

steve holmes's picture

I am working on a composition to display current now and next information for a small local music festival. I am working on a composition that processes and excel XML and spits out date, start time, end time, and event title.

I have got a javascript patch that can process the date and time string and use it to compare against the system time, when this is hooked into a counter I can work through a xml data sheet but only if the system comes on in the morning before the first event.

Just wondering if anyone has come up with any clever ways to handle dates and times in QC, ideally I need to be able to compare against the system time and then work through an XML file to display the correct information.

So does anyone have any ideas or pointers? Cheers Steve

mattgolsen's picture
Re: Processing Time & Digital Signage

I have a similar composition, but all the date stuff is handled on the server side, using Microsoft's SharePoint (not ideal, but it works). Perhaps instead of building the logic into your composition, you can setup some sort of filtering on the server side.