How To Mass-Change / Mass-Apply Hour Restrictions

This two and a half minute video is a refresher on hour-restricting non-music tracks (promos in this case) and how to apply hour restrictions to multiple cards at the same time.

Watch the video on YouTube: Mass Change Hour Restrictions

Restrict hours on one card or many

Hour restrictions keep certain songs or tracks from playing in certain hours. In this example there are three morning show promos in the IDs and Promos category, and they shouldn’t run in the mornings, Monday through Friday.

Restrict hours card by card

1. Open the first morning show promo and select the hours from 6 am up to the 9 o’clock hour, Monday through Friday.

2. Click the little red button.

3. Click the little arrow in the lower right-hand corner to go to the next promo, and do the same. Repeat for the third.

Made a mistake? In the video the 10 am hour got restricted by accident on promo number one. Select that hour and click the white button on the right: the hour is unrestricted again. Click back and forth through the promos to check they’re all restricted properly.

Invert the restriction

Say you have a promo that should only run in certain hours or on certain days. Restrict those hours, then click the invert button. The promo that could run everywhere except those hours can now run only in those hours.

Mass-apply hour restrictions

1. Click the little rubber stamp icon. In the field area that appears, select Hour Restrictions.

2. Hold the Ctrl key and click the tracks you want to restrict. You can click as many as you want.

3. Back at the top of the screen, select the hours where these tracks are to be restricted and click the red button.

4. Click the little yellow button to apply it.

Open any of those cards and click Hours: the restriction is there.