Animating JSON items in Scene for JSON Player

[steveRedMinnow]

I am pulling in JSON data into a scene of several JSON items. I have attached this to a JSON player and the data loads and displays correctly when I play the campaign.

When I go back into the scene and try to animate some of the properties of the JSON items, so that one item fades in and another slides in from off-screen, they play correctly when I test the scene, but those items do not display when I run the campaign again with "live" data. If I set the alpha to go from .5 to 1 on a text field and run the campaign, I do see the text but it stays at 50%. So it appears that the animations are not running. How do you run animations like this? I would like to get similar results as displayed in the Catalog Component video but use external JSON and not internal data.

Thanks!

[admin]

hello, we have completely refactored animation in release 6.0 and put a special focus on animating JSON items.
I do recommend you test it in beta release 6.0 as we plan to release it soon and it should do all that you are asking for.

http://script.digitalsignage.com/forum/index.php/topic,7301.0.html

regards

[steveRedMinnow]

I have recreated the entire thing in 6.0 and it is doing the same thing. If I preview the scene, I see the animation as expected. However, if I run it via the timeline player or publish it and run it through the Signage Player, the animation does not run at all. Is there a setting that has to be enabled to have this work?

[admin]

Hi,

This is a bug we just found and verified, once a scene is bound to a json player it becomes  static.  We have added it to the bug list of 6.0 and will start working on a fix.

[steveRedMinnow]

OK, thanks!