# Priority override


> Priority override gives a playlist exclusive control of its screens while its schedule is active, and hands back automatically when it ends.
Normally several eligible playlists share a screen in turn. Priority override stops that.

While its schedule is active, a priority playlist takes the screen exclusively and nothing else plays. When the schedule ends, the other playlists resume on their own.

## Turning it on

Open the playlist, go to **Advanced**, enable **Priority Override**, and save.

## What to use it for

Content that is pointless if it is only seen sometimes. A closure notice, an evacuation message, an announcement that has to land today.

The alternative, deleting or unassigning everything else, is a change somebody has to remember to undo. Priority reverts on its own.

## Two priority playlists at once

They do not fight. If more than one priority playlist is active, they play consecutively, sharing the screen between themselves while still excluding everything non-priority.

## The mistake to avoid

Priority is exclusive for exactly as long as its schedule says. A priority playlist with **no** schedule is always eligible, so it takes the screen permanently and everything else silently stops.

If a screen has stopped showing everything but one playlist, that is the first thing to check.