Create and apply

Create a label on the Labels page, or type a new name wherever you apply labels. Then put it on screens and playlists.

Labels are managed from 3 places: the Labels page, a screen's Labels tab, and a playlist's Screens tab. They all change the same labels.

From the Labels page

Labels, in the sidebar between Screens and Playlists, lists every label with how many screens carry it and how many playlists it plays.

Choose New label to create one. Open a label and it has 3 tabs:

• Screens lists the screens carrying it. Add screens opens a searchable list of the screens that don't have it yet, and you can remove any screen from the label.
• Playlists does the same for the playlists assigned to it, through Add playlists.
• Settings is where you rename or delete it.

This is the place to start when the question is about the group rather than one screen: which screens are in lobby, and what plays on them. How labels work, on the same page, explains the idea in a few lines.

On one screen

Open the screen and go to its Labels tab. It lists the screen's labels with how many screens and playlists use each one, so you can see how far a label reaches before you change it. Choose Add labels to apply one, and select a label's name to open its page.

On one playlist

Open the playlist, go to its Screens tab, and choose Select screens.

On many screens at once

From the screens list, choose Edit, tick the screens you want, then Manage labels. Apply or remove across all of them in one go, and Finish when done.

This is the one to use for anything beyond a couple of screens. Labeling 10 screens individually is 10 trips through a screen page.

Creating one as you apply it

There is no separate create step in the labels dialog. Type a name that doesn't exist yet and choose Create label for that name, and it's created and applied together.

That has a consequence: a typo becomes a label. warehosue will be created as happily as warehouse, and a playlist targeting the correct spelling then reaches nothing. If a label seems to have stopped working, read it character by character before anything else.

The tabs in the dialog

From a playlist, the dialog has 3 tabs:

• System holds All Screens.
• Custom is the default and holds your own labels.
• Screen holds the per-screen labels, for targeting one specific screen.

From a screen or the screens list, the dialog shows custom labels only, since those are the only ones you can put on a screen.

Applying across a mixed selection

Select several screens where some already carry a label and some don't, and the label shows as partially applied. Acting on it applies it to all of them, so you can bring a mixed selection into line in one action rather than working out which is which.

Removing one

Take it off a screen from that screen's Labels tab, off several from the screens list in edit mode, or off any screen from the label's own Screens tab. Remove it from a playlist from the playlist's Screens tab, or from the label's Playlists tab.

Removing a label from a screen doesn't delete the label, and doesn't affect any other screen carrying it. The screen stops playing only the playlists it got through that label.