A screen's own page

The eight tabs on a screen: Overview, Labels, Playlists, Now playing, Details, Settings, Notes, and Actions, and which one answers which question.

Clicking a screen opens its own page, in eight tabs. Under the screen's name is its status, and every tab has a How to add content button that walks through the 3 steps from content to a screen: add your content, put it in a playlist, then assign the playlist to the screen directly or through one of its labels.

The page keeps itself current while it is open. If a teammate renames the screen, edits its location or notes, or disables it, you see it right away. The same goes for the screen losing or regaining its connection, and for a screenshot you asked for arriving. If your own connection drops for a moment, the page catches up on what it missed once it is back.

Overview

The at-a-glance answer. A screenshot of what it is showing, its content status, which device it is, where it is, and its local time.

The Screenshot card has a Take screenshot button for a fresh one on demand. See Screenshots.

The device card shows the player model and its photo, read from what the player itself reports. If you run a mix of Player Max revisions across sites, this is where you see which one a screen is.

The local time card is worth more than it looks, because schedules run in each screen's own time zone. A screen showing the wrong content at the wrong hour is often a screen with the wrong time zone.

A screen with no playlists says No playlists are assigned to this screen yet here, with a link to the Playlists tab.

Labels

The screen's labels in a table, with how many screens and playlists use each one, so you can see how far a label reaches before you change it. You add and remove labels from this table, and each label's name opens that label's page. Search and sorting help when the list is long. See Labels.

Playlists

Every playlist assigned to the screen, and how each one gets there. This is the tab that answers "why does this screen play that playlist" without opening playlists one by one.

It lists disabled playlists too, with each playlist's duration and state. A playlist shared from another workspace has (Shared) after its title. The Assigned via column reads Directly, Via 3 labels, or Directly and via 2 labels, with All Screens counting as a label. Select it for the details, with links to the playlist and to each label involved.

The tab is for reading. Assignments are changed from the playlist or the label.

Now playing

The playlist items currently active on this screen, and a Preview button that plays them back in the browser.

This is the tab that answers "why is it showing that". If an item you expect is missing here, the problem is the schedule or the assignment rather than the device.

Details

What the device reports about itself: its ID, uptime, whether it has a live connection to Screenly, its network, and its hardware and software. See Health and diagnostics.

Settings

Name, location, and everything about the display. See Screen settings.

Notes

Formatted notes about the physical installation. See Name, location, and notes.

Actions

The one-off operations: privacy mode, certificates, reboot, power off, enabling and disabling, transferring to another workspace, and deleting. See Managing screens.