Availability Windows

Backstage assets can have windows set to indicate periods where the asset is either announced (metadata available without playback) or released (metadata available with playback).

In cases where an asset is announced - meaning that the current time falls in between the start and end dates of the announcement window - backstage will apply a blocked reason indicating when it will be available. An example of one of these reasons is shown below;

{
    "reason": "BLOCKED_WINDOW",
    "resolvement": {
        "action": "none",
        "data": {
            "availableFrom": 1645542728
        }
    },
    "message": "Asset is blocked by release window"
}

If an asset has no window indicating its release after the announcement window then the availableFrom field will be null, in which case it will just disappear again after the announcement. In practice this will not happen a lot but could be used for promotional assets.