Screenly 26.7.0: Playlist schedules are now built from rules you can read

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Scheduling a playlist used to mean filling in a condition builder and then trusting that the result said what you meant. If a playlist had three rules, working out when it actually played took some reading.

The Schedule tab (Playlists > a playlist > Schedule) now lists each rule as a line of plain text, naming the dates it covers, the days of the week it runs on, and the hours it plays, instead of a form you have to read back to yourself. Above the list, an Effective schedule block states when the playlist plays once every rule is taken together. A playlist with no rules says so directly: “Always active. This playlist plays on every screen, every day, all day.”

Editing a rule opens a dialog split into Dates, Time of day, and Days of week, so you work on one part of the schedule at a time and watch the sentence update as you go.

Rules that will not do what you meant say so

A schedule can be self-contradictory in ways that are invisible until nothing plays. Each rule now carries its own status:

Never plays, for a rule whose conditions cannot all be true at once, such as a date range that contains none of the weekdays it allows
Expired, for a rule whose end date has passed
Pending, for a rule that has not started yet

Dates can have exceptions

A rule can now exclude individual days inside its own range, which is the difference between a QSR menu board that runs every day of the year and one that runs every day except December 25. Excluded dates show as removable labels under the date range, so a closure that moves is one label to swap rather than a schedule to rebuild.

Schedules the rules can’t show

A schedule created through the API that the dashboard can’t read at all stays read-only, as before, with the same notice. A schedule the dashboard can read but can’t turn into rules, or one too large for the editor, is now read-only too, with a notice saying it is too complex to show as rules. The old condition builder let you edit some of these in the dashboard; now they can only be changed through the API. Either way the playlist keeps playing exactly as it did.

Screenly 26.7.0: Installed app settings open instantly

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Installed app settings open right away now. Go to Apps > My Apps > an app and the settings are simply there, with no page reload between you and them. Adding a new app works the same way.

You feel it most when setting up several apps in a row, or when adjusting one app and checking the result: what used to be a stack of page loads is one continuous flow.

Screenly 26.7.0: Subscription changes now say how many seats or screens were disabled

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

When a subscription’s member or screen count is reduced, Screenly disables the excess seats or screens automatically, so a workspace over its new limit does not have to be sorted out by hand.

The dashboard notification about it failed to post, so the change happened without an explanation attached. That notification now appears, with the new subscription size and how many members or screens were disabled, for example “Subscription updated to 1 screen. 1 screen disabled.”

Screenly 26.7.0 | Screenly

Screenly 26.7.0: Playlist schedules are now built from rules you can read

Rules that will not do what you meant say so

Dates can have exceptions

Schedules the rules can’t show

Screenly 26.7.0: Installed app settings open instantly

Screenly 26.7.0: Subscription changes now say how many seats or screens were disabled