Scheduling

Schedules can be added to groups to schedule one or more playlists throughout a day, a week, or just for holidays and special occasions.

Add your first schedule

• Go to Groups and Schedules
• Find the group where you want to add a schedule
• Click Add Schedule
• Scroll down and click + Add schedule
• Input a name
• Toggle on or off Repeat Daily
• Find and choose the playlist (s) you'd like to schedule for this group
• Set a start time and an end time and choose your days (Depending on whether Repeat Daily is on or off)

Please note you only see Add Schedule if no schedules have been added. If a group already have schedules you will see how many schedules.

Add a schedule based on a start date and end date

This type of schedule is common for campaign content, holidays, and special occations. 

• Go to Groups and Schedules
• Find the group where you want to add a schedule
• Click Add Schedule
• Scroll down and click + Add schedule
• Input a name
• Make sure Repeat Daily is turned off
• Find and choose the playlist (s) you'd like to schedule
• Click Start on 
• Choose a start date
• Click Stop on
• Choose a stop date

You can set the start time of day and stop time of day also. To include the whole day set the start time of day at 00:00 and the end time of day at 23:59

Add a schedule based on days in a week

This type of schedule is common for scheduling content you want running only on some of the days in the week; for example, this could be the menu for the weekend, and therefore would only be showing Saturday and Sunday.

• Go to Groups and Schedules
• Find the group where you want to add a schedule
• Click Add Schedule
• Scroll down and click + Add schedule
• Input a name
• Toggle on Repeat Daily
• Find and choose your playlist (s)
• Input 00:00 in start time of day and 23:59 in end time of day
• Check the days of the week where this schedule should be active

Add a schedule based on days in a week and time of day

This type of schedule is common when you'd like to schedule a playlist to only run between, for example, 09:00 and 11:00 on specific days of the week.

• Go to Groups and Schedules
• Find the group where you want to add a schedule
• Click Add Schedule
• Scroll down and click + Add schedule
• Input a name
• Toggle on Repeat Daily
• Find and choose your playlist (s)
• Set start time of day and end time of day (Example 09:00 to 14:00)
• Check the days of the week where this schedule should be active

Remove a schedule

• Go to Groups and Schedules
• Find the group where you want to remove a schedule
• On the left in the timeline, find the schedule you'd like to remove and click x

Set up shuffle

Shuffle is a feature added to schedules. When activated, you can set the ratio between multiple playlists. For example, 2 slides from Playlist A, then 1 slide from Playlist B, and then 3 slides from Playlist C, and then it starts over.

• Go to Groups and Schedules
• Find the group where you want to set up shuffle
• Click + Add Schedule to add a new schedule or choose an existing schedule (If you are setting up a new schedule, please refer to Add your first schedule further up on this page)
• In Playlists, make sure you have added more than one playlist; otherwise, you will not see Shuffle.
• Toggle on Shuffle
• Set the ratio for each playlist in the schedule.

Example, Playlist A has 20 slides, Playlist B has 20 slides. You set up a ratio for Playlist A at 2 and for Playlist B at 3. This is what's going to happen: Playlist A slide 1 > Playlist A slide 2 > Playlist B slide 1 > Playlist B slide 2 > Playlist B slide 3 > Playlist A slide 3 > Playlist A slide 4 > Playlist B slide 4 ...

• The group name is the name of your group.
• Your base playlist is the default playlist playing in this group. The base playlist is always playing unless there is a schedule or multiple schedules that override it. So in case, you make a mistake, the base playlist will be playing on your TVs.
• Screens in this group are players (Connected to TVs) added to this particular group.
• Publish has the same function as anywhere else in Play; it tells the players to download the latest content and changes, including schedules.
• Remove Standard is where you click to remove this group. Keep in mind, you cannot remove a group that has screens added.
• + Add schedule is for adding schedules to the group.
• The black tool icon on the right gives tools to navigate the timeline (Zoom, move, center, etc).
• The base playlist will show you what is actually playing.

Scheduling in Digital Signage does not start.

Most often, if your device does not start playing the schedule at the configured time, it is due to the player device having an incorrect time or time zone. Please review your time and time zone settings from the device’s operating system.

I have several schedules for the same period.

If the Scheduling in Digital Signage doesn’t start at exactly the same time (say schedule one starts at 09:00 for 2 hours, schedule two starts at 09:05 for 2 hours), then schedule one would be played from 09:00 – 09:05, and schedule two would be played from 09:05 until 11:05.

If both schedules are set to start at the same time, then the most recently created schedule (lowest on the list) will take precedence if you have several schedules starting at the same time.

Only the first playlist of the scheduled playlist sequence is played.

A playlist is considered “done” when the last slide in the playlist finishes. Due to the configuration options available in our editor, it is possible to set up a playlist in a way that the playlist never finishes:

• The last slide in the playlist has the “After this slide play X” option set; it will take precedence and play the specified slide instead of the next playlist in the sequence.
• The playlist contains a slide with a “play this slide forever” option, thus the player will never reach the last slide
• The playlist is set to randomize the slides; it may take a while for the last slide to be randomly played. Only then will the next playlist in the sequence start.