Managing Bouquets

Bouquets are similar to lineups with the list of services, with the addition of channel numbers corresponding to each service listed in a bouquet. Bouquets are created to associate lineup services with dial numbers for given geographical area. Bouquets are used by the encoders to dial the correct channel number when a user calls up a particular service. Since the same service may have a different dial number in another area, you will likely need to create several bouquets to help organize the various channel mappings.

When new services are added or when they are moved to different dial numbers, you will have to update one or more of the bouquets.

Within a specific bouquet, you can add and remove services, change the dial number, add notes and rename the bouquet. You can also make three global changes to all bouquets. These are: adding a service, changing a dial number for a service, and removing a service without deleting it from the list of available services in the system. The service is only removed from the bouquet, and not the system, since the service may still be used in a lineup.

Once you save your modifications, the system automatically propagates the changes to the database and to any RPM encoder that uses the bouquet.