The screens list

Reading the four status cards, the two status columns, and how search and sorting behave once there are more screens than fit on a page.

Screens in the main navigation lists every screen in the workspace, with a thumbnail of what each is showing.

The four cards

Along the top are counts by state. Clicking one filters the list to those screens.

CardMeaning
OnlineChecking in normally
Pending syncStill downloading content or schedules
OfflineNot checking in
DisabledTurned off in the dashboard, and not using a license

These overlap on purpose. A screen can be both online and pending sync, and it will be counted in both.

The two status columns

Status is about the connection. An online screen says Online. One that is not says when it was last seen instead, which is more useful than the word Offline: Last seen 12 minutes ago and Last seen Mar 4, 9:15 are different problems.

Content status is about whether the screen has what it should be showing.

Content statusMeaning
All content is up to dateEverything is displaying as expected
Syncing contentStill downloading, and showing the last synced content meanwhile
Updates pendingOffline, and will sync once it reconnects

The two are independent. A screen can be perfectly online and still showing yesterday’s playlist because today’s has not finished downloading, and that is a normal state a few minutes after you change something rather than a fault.

Finding a screen

The search box matches screen names and label names, so typing a label name lists everything carrying it.

Sorting by Status puts online screens first, then the rest ordered by how recently they were seen, which puts the screen that has been dark longest at the bottom. That is usually the one to look at first.

Working on several at once

Edit, at the top right, turns on checkboxes. Select the screens you want, choose Labels, and apply or remove labels across all of them in one go. Finish turns it off again.

That is the fastest way to bring a batch of new screens into an existing playlist: label them all at once, and every playlist already targeting that label picks them up. See Labels.

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