Enabling guest entitlements for a channel

Overview

There are several things you must do to enable the guest entitlements feature for an editorial channel:

• Add custom WatchParty metadata field to the channel

• Add the capability to the channel’s clientControls

These can all be done:

• In OpCon

• By making an API call

• At ingest (XML)

These are explained in detail below.

Enabling guest entitlements for a channel in OpCon

To enable guest entitlements for a channel in OpCon, in Metadata > Channel Descriptors for the channel, click Edit Basic Information, then:

1. In, Non-locale Specific Fields:

   1. Find the WatchPartyRef field.

   2. Add the IDs of the guest entitlements capability product(s).

2. In Features > Content Signalling, click Edit Basic Information, then:

   1. Click Add Capability.

   2. Select WATCHPARTY from the list.

3. Click Save >.

See (24.50_Q4) Channel Management for more information.

Enabling guest entitlements for a channel through an API call

You can enable guest entitlements for a channel through an API call:

• When creating the channel
  Follow the instructions for creating an editorial channel, ensuring that the relevant fields are set, as explained below.

• By updating the channel
  Refer to the Content and Product Manager (CPM) API documentation: content v1 for the PUT /editorialChannels/{editorialChannelId} endpoint, ensuring that the relevant fields are set, as explained below.

The following fields must be set correctly on the editorial channel to enable the guest entitlements feature for that channel:

• Add a WatchPartyRef capability product reference to the "locale": "none" metadata block. This contains a comma-delimited list of guest entitlement capability products:

  JSON

  ...
  "metadataSet": [
      {
        "locale": "none",
        "metadata": [
          {
            "key": "WatchPartyRef",
            "value": "<id_of_capability_product>[,...]"
          },
          ...
        ]
      }
    ],
    ...
  

• Add the WATCHPARTY capability to the clientControls block:

  JSON

    ...
    "clientControls": [
      {
        "key": "WATCHPARTY",
        "value": true
      },
      ...
    ],
    ...
  

Enabling guest entitlements for a channel at ingest

To enable guest entitlements for a channel at ingest, make sure that the following are added to each editorialChannel for which the feature is to be enabled:

• In cmsData > editorialChannel > metadataSet, add a new metadata element (for the “none” locale):

  <metadataSet locale="none">
  	...
  	<metadata key="WatchPartyRef">
  		<id_of_capability_product>[,...]
  	</metadata>
  	...
  </metadataSet>
  

• In cmsData > editorialChannel > clientControls, add a new key/value pair, where the key is "WATCHPARTY" and the value is true.