Miscellaneous Settings

In your role as administrator, you may import program information for the Observer in the form of “as-run files” or ratings files. The Observer system can automatically ingest and process these files by implementing a “Hot Folder”. The Hot Folder resides on the Central server and any files imported or copied into the Hot Folder directory will be automatically processed and incorporated into program or ratings data displayed in the Observer Media Player.

Hot Folders

The Hot Folders Location sets the directory location of the hot folder located in the Central Server. This setting should not be changed from the default of C:/Hotfolder.

Figure: Miscellaneous Settings Hot Folder

Clicking the <Update> button next to the Hot Folder location creates a C:\HotFolder directory on the server with subfolders using the names of each channels displayed on the Home tab of the Observer Media Player. The software automatically imports the As-run logs from these folders. See @Hot Folders in the “As-Run files” section later in this document.