Posting Decision Tree

Depending on the host audio unit, XStudio, DCS or Maestro, and the features you have enabled in crWebBB, different paths will be taken by the program to determine which, if any, content for a given cart's start of play will be posted.

Here's a general description of how crWebBB decides if and what information to post:

If the host system is Maestro and the "SendAllInfoToRemote" option is enabled

If the cart is music and you have the "Use Music DB" option enabled, a lookup of the song is attempted in the music database. If found, the Title and Artist information in the database is used. Otherwise, the song Title and Artist information provided by Maestro is used.

If you do not have the music database enabled and the cart is music, the song Title and Artist information provided by Maestro is used.

If the cart is non-music and alternate messaging is enabled, then the cart category provided by Maestro is used to look up available alternate messages and the least recently used message valid for the day is used. If the category cannot be found, then an attempt to use a valid message from the "* Unknown *" category is made. If no valid messages from this category are found, nothing is posted.

If the cart is non-music and alternate messaging is not enabled, the information from Maestro is used.

Posting music information only. There are two methods you can use to limit posting to music content only:

a) Check the item "Post Music Category Only" for each of the text posting types and RDS properties; or

b) Place a check in the "Use Alternate Messages" check box in Preferences and make sure there are no alternate messages that are valid in any cart category. The effect will be that crWebBB will fail to find the category or any messages, and will also fail to find any messages for the default "* Unknown *" category. As a result, nothing will be posted for non-music carts. The failure will be logged in the posting log.

For more information on the "SendAllInfoToRemote" option for Maestro, see the section on Setting Up Maestro.

If the host system is DCS, XStudio or is Maestro with the "SendAllInfoToRemote" option disabled

The cart number supplied by the host unit is used to try to find a cart category for the cart, using the cart masks you've defined for each cart category.

If a category is found, the category is "Music", and you've elected to use crWebBB's music database, the song Title and Artist are looked up in the music database. If found, the information is posted. If not found and you have valid messages (alternate) for the music category, then a valid alternate message is used. Otherwise, no information is posted.

If a category is found, the category is "Music", you have not elected to use the music database, and you have alternate messaging enabled, a valid alternate message for the music category is used. If no message is found, then an attempt is made to use a valid message from the "* Unknown *" category. If no valid messages are found, nothing is posted.

If a category is found, the cart is non-music and alternate messaging is enabled, then the cart category is used to look up available alternate messages and the least recently used message valid for the day is used. If the category cannot be found, then an attempt to use a valid message from the "* Unknown *" category is made. If no valid messages from this category are found, nothing is posted.

If a category is found, the cart is non-music, and alternate messaging is not enabled, no message is posted.

If a category is not found and inventory use is enabled, the cart description from the inventory is used. If the cart is not found in the inventory, no message is posted.

If all tests listed above fail, no message is posted.

Posting music information only. There are two methods you can use to limit posting to music content only:

a) Check the item "Post Music Category Only" for each of the text posting types and RDS properties; or

b) In Preferences, do the following: a) turn off the "Use Alternate Messages" option; b) turn off the "Use DCS Inventory File" option; and c) make sure you have the "Use Music DB" option checked. Make sure you have a cart category named "Music" with the appropriate cart masks. Also make sure that you have your song titles and artists in the music database, either by importing them or manually entering them.