OKAST allows (for specific clients) to manage and edit some editorial playlists on your platforms. You can regroup contents or playlists into playlists or categories very easily.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The Smartlists list
- The smartlists menu displays all the smartlists you have created
- You will see up to 6 indicators next to your smartlist:
indicates a time restriction is associated with your smartlist
indicates a geographic restriction is associated with your smartlist
indicates the number of languages in which your smartlist exists
indicates the number of elements that are part of your smartlist (3 for example if your smartlist includes 2 contents and one categorie)
- The colored icon indicates the status of your smartlist:
non enabled or ended smartlist
smartlist enabled but not available for the moment
smartlist enabled and currently available
is clickable and allows you to access the settings of your smartlist *
- The colored icon indicates the status of your smartlist:
* Clicking on your smartlist name also gives you access to its settings
2. Choose your Smartlist: Standard or Automatic
Go to menu > EDITORIAL MANAGEMENT > Smartlist to choose the behavior of your Smartlist.
Standard Smartlist.
This is generated with the library items you can select (videos, audios, series, etc.). You'll find a list of these items on this page in chapter: G: Standard Smartlist items.
Automatic Smartlist.
This is generated automatically, with filter criteria that you can select (genre, keywords, authors, etc.). These filters correspond to the information entered in your content page, a list of which can be found on this page in chapter : Automatic Smartlist items.
3. Your smartlist
To edit your smartlist you just need to click on 
or on the name of your smartlist
Note: In order for your smartlist to be published, it must contain a title and an image (at least for the default language) and at least one element, regardless of the type (another smartlist or content)
A. The internal name in the back office
- You can change the name of your smartlist by clicking on it
- You can enable or disable your smartlist by clicking on the power button
- The colored icon will change in the same way as on the previous page according to your settings
B. Languages
- You can choose the languages in which you want to display your smartlist (you need a minimum of one language)
- The checked language is be the default language of the smartlist. This is the language in which your smartlist will appear, if no translation has yet been made for the selected languages
- Click on a language, then click “Remove Language” to delete it.
- By clicking on
you access the language selector, and you can add as many new languages as you want
C. The title
- You can add a title to your smartlist for each of the languages you have previously selected
- The title will be displayed in two places
- On your site’s Home page:
- In your smartlist:
D. Slug
The friendly URL (Slug) is automatically generated from the title given to the content with dashes between each month. This URL will be the one of the content on the platform. You can leave this field empty and a URL will be generated.
For more information on friendly URLs, read our dedicated article.
E. The description
You can add, or not, a description to your smartlist for each of the languages you have previously selected
A rich text editor allows you to edit this block. For more information, visit the rich text editor page.
Your description will appear inside your Smartlist below the title.
F. The illustrations
You can add illustrations to your smartlist for each of the languages you have selected
Depending on the design choices for the elements of your platform > PLATFORM > Layout > Smartlist Page, different thumbnail formats may be displayed.
To best control what is displayed to your users, it is ideal to upload at least four formats: banner, 16:9, poster, and square.
Note: The size of each image must not exceed 15 MB.
If you do not have suitable images, you can upload an image that will be automatically resized. To ensure the best experience for your users, regardless of their connection or device, we encode 3 formats of each of your images (low, medium, and HD quality).
For all your images (media, cast, smartlist, series, season, playlist, offer, etc.), we use artificial intelligence to generate tags describing the image. Visible only in the back office, these tags help optimize image accessibility for your users transparently and improve SEO.
You can add tags directly (in English and/or French) by clicking on the icon :
G. Standard Smartlist
- In this section, you can add as many items to your smartlist as you have existing ones
- Different types of elements are addable to a smartlist:
Videos
Smartlists
Audio content
Display
Castings
Series
- The added smartlists will then create playlists in your smartlist
- The added content will be presented individually
- By checking the boxes, you can transfer several elements to your smartlist together
- In the same way as for adding elements to your smartlist, you can remove them by the same process
H. Automatic Smartlist items
In this section, you can add filter criteria.
Filters are added together, i.e. 'and' not 'or'.
Different types of filter criteria can be added and cumulated to a Smartlist:
Duration type can be modified in the first tab of the content file > Media
Genre, format, theme, target audience, keywords and year of production can be modified in the second tab of the content file: Metadata.
Actor, director, producer, author, sales and contact can be selected in the third tab of the content file: Casting.
The nationality can be modified in the fourth tab of the content file > Languages and Metadata.
Select one or more of the 14 filter fields. You can, for example, select the same filter field several times, as filters add up, i.e. 'and' not 'or'.
Then select the value for each filter field: 'is equal to' in the right-hand column.
I. The restrictions
You have the possibility to restrict access to your smartlist, either to countries, or for a time period, or both at the same time.
- Geographic restriction :
Restrict your smartlist allows you to offer your content, only to the people to whom it is addressed
- By clicking on
you can activate the geographical restriction - You can, by clicking on ALLOW, select the countries that will have access to your smartlist
- In the same way, you can, by clicking on BLOCK, select the countries that will not have access to your smartlist
- By clicking on
- Availability period :
- You can select using the calendar, the start date of your availability period
- You can also select using the calendar, the end date of your availability period, if there is one
- However, if you wish to delete the availability period, click on
J. Variables
The variables are linked to the setting of widgets on your platform. For more information, read our dedicated article.
K. Copying Smartlists
You can copy Smartlists from one project to another using the data copy module at the top right of Smartlist pages (and also contents).
4. Rendered on your platform
- To finish, click on
- That’s it, your smartlist is now set to be available on your site
TIPS: a smartlist can contain maximum of 999 elements.
If you want to change the way your elements are displayed on your playlist, see the article How to configure your smartlist page.