Getting a show that started late back on track

[WhitePlainsNY]

Here's the scenario; the show that normally starts at 5:30pm each night is delayed for whatever reason and can't start until 5:50pm. What solutions are there to start the 5:30pm show, 20 minutes past the point it would normally start?

My issue is that I post the schedule on my website so people can know exactly when their favorite song or when virtual Santa makes his one of several appearances. Having a delayed schedule throws a wrench into the whole evening including chopping off the last (20 or whatever) minutes that run past the show's end time.

I don't care that the first part of the show isn't run since everyone already missed it anyway.

Some of my delays were caused by 3.1.4 dll issues, Window Updates that I forgot to turn off after I switched back to my desktop, power outages, and general stupidity on my part.

I tried to search the forum but I found no hits. So I now I turn to the all-knowing forum members for insight.

Thanks!
Chuck

[George Simmons]

The only way I can think of is to go to the show editor and delete as many songe from the beginning of the show as you need to in order to get close. Then, when you save those changes the current show will go into shutdown mode and then reload and start again.

[heystew]

Could you use the Windows Command feature to populate your web page directly with the schedule when it starts. Or launch a script that does so?

[WhitePlainsNY]

heystew wrote:

Could you use the Windows Command feature to populate your web page directly with the schedule when it starts.  Or launch a script that does so?

I suppose I could find someone smarter than me to do that but that doesn't help the folks that printed the schedule the day before.

George, that's a great idea. I wasn't aware that a newly saved show file would immediately replace the current, running show. I would think having the show file saved either in a different location or a different name would be a good idea so I wouldn't have the rebuild the songs I just deleted. I could just replace the shortened file with the orginal and I'd be all set for the next evening.

[Charles Belcher]

WhitePlainsNY wrote:

heystew wrote:

Could you use the Windows Command feature to populate your web page directly with the schedule when it starts.  Or launch a script that does so?

I suppose I could find someone smarter than me to do that but that doesn't help the folks that printed the schedule the day before.

George, that's a great idea. I wasn't aware that a newly saved show file would immediately replace the current, running show. I would think having the show file saved either in a different location or a different name would be a good idea so I wouldn't have the rebuild the songs I just deleted. I could just replace the shortened file with the orginal and I'd be all set for the next evening.

I have had to do this very thing this year a couple of times. The scenario is this:

Show scheduled at 5:30.
Something caused the show to not start on time. Say it started at 5:38
It is now 5:45 and you want to catch up at...say 6:oopm
Pull up the show in the show editor and count the minutes of each segment between 5:45 and 6:00pm
You do this and discover that 5:58pm (as an example) would be a good time to change over to the newly edited show
You now have 13 minutes to delete the already passed portions of the 5:30 show and build a new show with whatever sequences
You rename your newly edited show the "5:30 edited" show

The part George mentioned about the newly saved show causing an immediate shutdown and restart can also be a problem with timing so...
The thing to do is to find the end of a segment in between 5:45 and 5:58 and "shut down the show immediately" after that interim segment runs, then bring up a static look in the SE while you delete the 5:30 schedule and add a new schedule to begin at 5:58
Then at 5:57.30 (use the stop watch in your IPhone or whatever)stop the SE and enabled show schedule.
At 5:58 your newly edited 5:30 show will begin and everything will happen from 6:00pm forward as printed the day before.

Charles