About
Show content from a Google Drive folder on your digital signage. The Google Drive Content plugin displays the photos and ads stored in the folder: add new files or remove old ones in Drive, and your screens update by themselves.
This is not the same as our Google Drive library integration, which links your Google Drive directly to your library.
Get Started
Follow these steps to add a Google Drive folder to your content.
Add a Google Drive folder to a slide
- Log in and open a playlist
- Click Google Drive
- When asked, click Authorize
- Choose your Google account
- If asked if you trust Play Digital Signage, click Continue
- The page will reload and you will see a pop-up with all your folders from Google Drive
- Find and click the folder you need and then click Select
You’ve now added Google Drive to this slide. Keep in mind that the slide duration defines how long the slide runs: even if you have hundreds of photos in the Google Drive folder, the slide only runs for 10 seconds if the slide duration is set to 10 seconds.
See the options below for how to customize the content from Google Drive.
Options
Click the plugin to see its options in the toolbar on the right.
Alignment and Cropping
- Fit to canvas - Maximize the image to fit the canvas
- Align Left - Align the image to the left
- Align Center - Align the image to the center
- Align Right - Align the image to the right
- Align Top - Align the image to the top
- Align Center - Align the image to the center
- Align Bottom - Align the image to the bottom
- Locking Objects - Lock images
Selected Folder
Click the folder name to change the folder.
Play each file for (Seconds)
Set the duration of each Google Drive photo.
Check your slide duration
A reminder that there are two different durations (per file and per slide), so you set the slide duration accordingly. If you ONLY want Google Drive Content in this playlist, set it to “Forever”; if you mix it with other content, set the slide duration to what makes sense in your case.
File play order
Choose the order in which photos and ads are played (by name or by time).
Transition
Choose a transition effect.
Transition duration
Choose the duration of a transition in seconds.
Refresh Interval Minutes
Choose how often we should check for new photos and ads in your Google Drive folder. If you set it to 60 minutes, we check for changes in the Google Drive folder every 60 minutes.
Positioning
Set the position of the plugin pixel by pixel.
Sizing
Set the size of the plugin pixel by pixel.
FAQ
What files are supported?
Only photos and images, like JPG and PNG. All other files are skipped.
