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Now Playing / Coming Soon Settings
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In this article, we describe the various ways you can customize the way your movies and events show on your website and mobile app. All of these settings live in our database which means they can be updated very quickly and do not require a code deployment. The settings can be split up in three categories: Now Playing, Coming Soon, and Hero Slider. Each of these sections can be applied to amenity pages as well.
Hero Slider
- Hero Features Enabled: This setting is an on/off switch for the slides generated from your movie list. You would turn this off if you only wanted to display custom hero slides. Turned on by default.
- Hero Display Days Before Release: When generated slides are turned on, this will determine how many days before a movie's release it will show in the slider. This determines when a generated slide for a movie will start showing. Set to 7 by default.
- Hero Display Days After Release: When generated slides are turned on, this will determine how many days after a movie's release it will show in the slider. This determines when a generated slide for a movie will stop showing. Set to 7 by default.
- Hero Max Slide Count: This limits the number of generated slides. Set to 10 by default.
- Hero Sort By: Determines the way generated slides are sorted. We have the following options:
- Alphabetically
- Release Date (nearest to farthest)
- First Showing (nearest first showtime to farthest first showtime)
- Number of Showings (most showings to least showings)
- Days from Release Date (nearest release to farthest release)
- Days from Release Date Descending (farthest release to nearest release)
Now Playing
- Days Ahead To Flag Movie As Now Playing: This determines how many days before a movies next showtime, it is considered Now Playing. Meaning (by default) it will show up in the Now Playing section on the day it has showtimes. Set to 14 by default
- Default Movie View: Can be switched between grid and list.
Grid View:
List View:
- Disable Feature View Selector: If you want to hide the buttons to switch between grid and list view, this can be turned on. It is turned off by default.
- Now Playing Movie Preview Window Days: This determines how many days before a movie's next showtime it will show on the current day. This allows customers to see movies starting throughout the week without needed to look at each day. Set to 5 by default. Here is what a preview movie looks like:
- Display Previews First: This determines whether preview movies (if they are enabled) will show at the top or bottom of the movie list.
- Maximum Now Playing Days In Date Selector: This determines how many days show up in the date selector. Generally this should be set to the same amount as Days Ahead To Flag Movie As Now Playing. By default this is set to 14.
- Show Now Playing Calendar Picker: This will display a calendar picker which allows customers to navigate further into the future more easily than with the standard date picker.
- Sort Now Playing Movies By:
- Alphabetically
- Release Date (nearest to farthest)
- First Showing (nearest first showtime to farthest first showtime)
- Number of Showings (most showings to least showings)
- Days from Release Date (nearest release to farthest release)
- Days from Release Date Descending (farthest release to nearest release)
Coming Soon
Note: By default, Coming Soon will display all movies that do not have any showtimes on the current day.
- Coming Soon Slider Max Count: This limits how many movies will show in the Coming Soon slider. Set to 10 by default.
- Show Release Date: This will display a banner on each poster with the movie's release date. Turned off by default.
- Sort Coming Soon Movies By:
- Alphabetically
- Release Date (nearest to farthest)
- First Showing (nearest first showtime to farthest first showtime)
- Number of Showings (most showings to least showings)
- Days from Release Date (nearest release to farthest release)
- Days from Release Date Descending (farthest release to nearest release)
