Manifest: Template.json

Updated on 11 Jul 2024
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This guide is for the Dise One playout engine only. Please reference other guides for Dise Premium & Dise Lite.

The manifest file provides vital information about the template to the system:

{
    "name": "My First Template",
    "contentBasePath": "",
    "application": "template.html",
    "options": {
        "apiVersion": 2,
        "templateVersion": 3,
        "defaultDuration": 10,
        "targetWidth": 1920,
        "targetHeight": 1080,
        "scalePreview": true,
        "scalePlayer": true,
        "allowReuse": false,
        "enableAltMedia": false
    },
    "fields": [
        {
            "type": "text",
            "key": "heading",
            "caption": "Enter your headline",
            "default": "",
            "required": true
        },
        {
            "type": "textarea",
            "key": "body",
            "caption": "Enter your text",
            "default": "",
            "required": false
        },
        {
            "key": "media",
            "caption": "Choose a Picture or Video",
            "type": "content",
            "required": false,
            "mediaType": "video/mp4",
            "options": [
                {
                    "path": "/Media"
                },
                {
                    "path": "/"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Properties

Below is a description of each field. Optional fields are marked with a *

Property	Type	Description
name	string	Name of the template.
application	string	Path to main application for this template.
contentBasePath	string	Base directory for media.
options	object	Defined below.
customEditor *	string	Path to custom editor.
fields	array	Defined below.

Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
apiVersion *	number	2	CMS API version number.
templateVersion *	number	3	Template API version number.
defaultDuration *	number	10	Default duration when creating content.
targetWidth	number		Content width in pixels.
targetHeight	number		Content height in pixels.
allowReuse *	boolean	false	If template accepts multiple preload/shift.
scalePreview *	boolean	true	If CMS is allowed to scale preview.
scalePlayer *	boolean	true	If playback is allowed to scale content.
enableAltMedia *	boolean	true	If converted/transcoded version of media should be used.
templateMetadata *	any		Optional metadata to the template.

Fields

This array contains the definition of all fields the template uses. Each element in the array should be a json object with the following properties:

The following editable field types are supported:

Field type	Description
text	Single-line text.
textarea	Multi-line text.
checkbox	Boolean checkbox.
select	Selection of single option from list.
content	Choose or upload single file.
contentlist	Choose or upload multiple files.
number	Numeric.
range	Numeric range slider.
date	Choose date using calendar widget.
color	Choose RGB color using palette widget.
section	A special field that groups fields graphically in the CMS editor. Each section contains children with arbitrary fields as above. Sections can also include sections. Sections do not have a key.

Each field type is described in detail in the next section

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