URL Aliases

Define configurable aliases to ease onsite setup

The URL Aliases feature means to provide aliases to the parameters section of the url, ie: the bit after ontime's port. 192.168.10.1:4001/THIS-HERE

See more in the URL Aliases Settings

URL Aliases is a feature with two main targets in mind

Unnatended screens

We try to allow a worlkflow for integrating unnatended screens into the app network. Using a signage browser renderer or the screen integrated browser we can render any of the ontime pages. However this process is usually slow.

With URL Aliases you can define dynamic URLs that are changed from the app side:

We could for example setup the screen browsers to use an URL related to its position or type eg: 192.168.10.10:4001/thirdfloor And in ontime, configure thirdfloor to be an alias to any of the views such as public or backstage, as necessary

Simplifying long URLs

Specifically in the case of lower thirds, ontime offers the possibility to modify the appearence of the views through parameters passed in the URL. However this can be slow and difficult to enter in the browser rendered (OBS, vMIX, d3 and so on). You might also want to quickly change this centrally to match styling for a specific event

In this case you could use an alias to shorten an url to something generic:

The custom url lower?bg=ff2&text=f00&size=0.6&transition=5 could be simply called mylower or shelleventlower for quickly recalling