Concept

Scheduling

The right thing on screen at the right time, planned in advance instead of switched by hand.

A screen’s job changes through the day. The morning needs different information from the afternoon, weekends differ from weekdays, and a campaign has a start and an end. Scheduling is how a screen keeps up.

These pages cover how you control when a playlist plays, what happens when two could play at once, how schedules work across time zones, and the rule that sits underneath it all.

Topics

5 topics · 7 min read

1 What scheduling is Scheduling is the when of signage: time of day, day of week, and date ranges that decide which playlist plays now.
2 Combining rules A schedule is built from rules, and you can combine as many as you need with plain and/or logic, so one playlist can follow almost any pattern.
3 When playlists overlap When two playlists are due at once, the screen cycles through them, unless one is set to take priority.
4 Local time, every location Schedules run on each screen's own local time, so one schedule does the right thing in every location.
5 Beyond the clock Scheduling does not have to be about time. Content can also respond to live conditions, so a screen reacts to what is actually happening.

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