The dashboard
What the dashboard is, what each item in the navigation does, and which jobs live somewhere other than the browser.
The dashboard is the web app at login.screenlyapp.com. It runs in a browser and needs nothing installed.
It is the only place most people ever touch. Your screens are managed from here whether they run ScreenlyOS on a Screenly player, or Screenly Anywhere on an Android box, a smart display, or a browser. The devices differ; the dashboard does not.
The navigation
Everything is in one sidebar.
At the top of the sidebar is the workspace you are in. Selecting its name opens the Lobby, where you switch to another workspace or create one.
| Home | Where you land. Fleet status at a glance, quick actions for the four things you do most, and product news |
| Screens | Your fleet, their health, and their settings |
| Labels | Every label, with how many screens carry it and how many playlists it plays |
| Playlists | The rotations, each with its own content, schedule, and screens |
| Content | Everything uploaded or added: images, video, audio, PDFs, web pages, streams |
| Apps | The apps you have installed and configured |
| App store | Where you find and install apps |
| Notifications | Opens your notifications in a dialog. The count on the entry shows how many you have |
| Settings | The workspace: general settings and branding, security, members, linked workspaces, notifications, integrations, and billing |
| Help Center | Opens a dialog with links to this documentation and to a form for opening a support ticket |
Your account menu sits at the bottom of the sidebar, under your name. Account settings there opens your personal settings in a dialog over the page you are on. See Account settings versus workspace settings.
Selecting Settings turns the sidebar into the settings menu, with Back to workspace at the top to return. Billing is the Billing & subscription page in that menu. Members who don't manage billing see a read-only version of it.
On a narrow window the sidebar becomes a drawer you open when you need it.
The four quick actions on Home are add a screen, create a playlist, upload content, and install an app, which is a fair summary of what the dashboard is for.
There is no search across the whole dashboard. Screens, Content, and Playlists each have their own search, and you create things from the section they belong in.
Keeping current
The dashboard keeps itself up to date. Come back to a tab you left open and it reloads what it shows, so statuses, playlists, and content are current as of the moment you look. Some pages, starting with a screen's own page, update the moment something changes, with no reload at all.
Signing in or out in another tab is picked up too. When you return to a tab you left open, it reloads to the sign-in page if you signed out, or to the Lobby if you are now signed in as an account that isn't a member of that workspace.
Times follow your own device's clock setting. If your computer uses 24-hour time you see 18:00, and if it uses 12-hour time you see 6:00 PM, with an AM/PM selector in time pickers.
What is not done here
Setting up a device belongs to the device. Getting hardware or a platform running, and diagnosing one that will not connect, is covered by ScreenlyOS, Screenly Anywhere, or Screenly players. Once a screen is paired it is managed from here like any other.
Anything scripted happens elsewhere too. The dashboard is one client of the Screenly API with no special access, and everything here is available from the API, the CLI, and the MCP server, which is what Developers covers.
Who can see what
Everyone in a workspace sees all of its screens, content, and playlists; roles decide who can change people and who can see billing. Roles and permissions has the detail, including why "some people must not see some screens" means a separate workspace.
Signing in, and the Lobby
There is no password. You sign in with a one-time email code, a passkey, a Google, GitHub, or Microsoft account, or your own identity provider over SAML. See Signing in.
Signing in lands you on the Lobby. It lists the workspaces you belong to, with your role in each, and has a second tab for pending invitations, where you accept or decline each one. You can also create a new workspace from there.