About
Slide conditions are an advanced functionality to display individual slides at a specific time of day, within a time range, or on one or more specific players.
Date and Time Range Condition
The Date & Time Range lets you add a condition where the slide is only displayed when the date and time condition is met. For example, if you add a condition saying Play between 2024-07-01 at 00:00 and 2024-07-01 at 23:59, that slide will ONLY play on July 1st. You can also add longer date ranges and change the times.
You also have the option “Automatically delete this slide when this condition expires”. Let’s say one of your employees has a birthday on February 2nd. You create a special slide for the occasion, add the condition and choose this option. The slide will ONLY play on February 2nd, and at 23:59 the system automatically deletes it to keep your playlist clean.
This condition does not guarantee that the slide will be shown exactly at the specified time; think of it rather as the slide not being skipped during the time range. If you want to show content exactly at a specified time, use scheduling instead.
Slides that are scheduled for the future have a yellow indicator in the slide overview.
Time Range Condition
Time Range is a bit simpler: the slide plays every day within the times you choose. All you need to do is pick a time of day to start and a time of day to end. For example, a restaurant might want to show its lunch menu slide every day between 12:00 and 14:00.
NB! This condition does not guarantee that the slide will be shown exactly at the specified time; think of it rather as the slide not being skipped during the time range. If you want to show content exactly at a specified time, use scheduling instead.
Weekday Condition
The weekday condition is only met on the days of the week you have selected (Monday, Tuesday, etc.). For example, if your store is closed on weekends, you can show an appropriate slide only on Saturday and Sunday.
Screen Condition
The screen condition is a linkage between your slide and one or more screens. By default, a slide plays on all screens. But let’s say you want to add the weather to your playlist and your screens are in different locations. You could then add one slide per location and link that slide to screens in that location.
For example, one of your screens is in New York, and another in Berlin. You have a playlist with 20 slides playing on both screens. Now add a slide with the weather plugin, open the slide settings, open Slide Conditions, and add a screen condition for New York. Then add another slide, also with the weather, and repeat the process using Berlin.
Inverting the condition turns the tables. Toggle on Invert Condition, and the slide will show on all screens except the ones you add in the screen condition.
Tag Condition
The tag condition can be used to show a slide only on certain players. For example, you could create a “Vegas” tag and apply it to all of your players located in Las Vegas. Now you can have a slide that is location specific, say a weather forecast for Las Vegas that is only shown on players that are in Las Vegas.
Network Condition
Use this condition to only play the slide when the player is online or offline. For example, hide website content when the screen has no access to the internet.
Bulk
Bulk editing makes it easier to edit multiple slides in one single action.
- Hover and select one or more slides
- Click Edit Slides
In the pop-up, scroll down to Slide Conditions.
Note that the changes you make will affect all the selected slides.
- Add your conditions
- Check Replace existing conditions to remove any pre-existing conditions. If this is left unchecked, pre-existing conditions will stay and new conditions will be added.
FAQ
Can I add a time of day and screen condition?
Yes. You can add a condition saying start at xx and stop at xx every day, and then add the screens you want the slide to play on.
How can I find slides that are only running in the future?
If a slide is set to run in the future you’ll see a yellow dot on the slide.
