Change a board layout

Configure a signage board's layout structure, including Split, Overlay, Fullscreen, and Grid styles, 32:9 video wall monitor modes, dual main stages, side docks, info cards, action buttons, and text bars.

Updated 4 Nov 2026

Open Signage

Instead of choosing from fixed layout templates or dragging widgets freely, you configure a signage layout by selecting which structural areas appear on the screen: one or two main stages, an optional side dock, info cards, action buttons, and text bars. Whenever you change these options—or change the screen’s size and orientation—the layout automatically adjusts to fit.

Two screens drawn side by side as coloured blocks. The landscape one, on the left, is a large blue Main stage filling most of the screen with a column down its right-hand edge holding, from the top, a tall green Side widgets block, two purple Info cards, and two amber Action buttons, and a thin teal Text bar across the bottom. A note under it reads: one dock down one edge, in a fixed order — side list, then cards, then buttons at the foot; drag the seam to set how wide it is. The portrait screen on the right has two purple Info cards in a band across the top, a tall blue Main stage in the middle, three amber Action buttons in a band across the bottom and a thin teal bar below them. Its note reads: no room for a column, so cards and buttons become bands on the top and bottom edges — there is no side list at all. — The five layout areas and how they arrange on landscape and portrait screens.

The Layout card on the editor's first page summarises the current screen structure.

Edit the layout on the schematic canvas

When you open Layout from the first page of the settings rail, the live preview switches to a colour-coded schematic canvas.

The layout schematic canvas shows each named slot, its assigned widget, and draggable seams.

The schematic canvas hides live media so you can clearly see slot boundaries, drag the seams between areas, and read the name of the widget assigned to each slot.

While you are on the Layout page, your changes are held as a draft:

Click Discard at the bottom of the rail to cancel your layout changes.
Click the back arrow (←) at the top of the rail to apply the new layout and return to the live preview.
Click Save on the main rail to save the updated board design.

Choose a layout style

The five layout styles: Split, Overlay, Fullscreen, Grid 3, and Grid 4.

Split: Places the main stage on one part of the screen and arranges the remaining slots in a dock along the edge (a left or right column on landscape screens, or top and bottom bands on portrait screens).
Overlay: Expands the main stage across the entire screen and floats the info cards and action buttons over the corners. Use Overlay when a full-screen video or image is the primary focus.
Fullscreen: Displays only the main stage across the entire screen. Any configured cards, buttons, and side widgets are preserved in the background and restored if you switch back to Split.
Grid 3 and Grid 4: Divide the screen into three or four equal, independent stages for video walls or multi-feed boards. Grid 3 splits along the screen’s long axis (three columns in landscape, three rows in portrait), while Grid 4 creates a 2×2 grid. As with Fullscreen, any dock widgets remain saved in the background if you switch back to Split.

Overlay style: the main stage fills the screen while cards and buttons float in the corners.

Split the main stage into two stages

At the bottom of the main stage on the schematic canvas, use the Split stage control to divide the main stage into two independent stages:

On landscape screens, a two-icon capsule lets you split Side by side or Stacked. Clicking the active icon combines the stages back into one; clicking the inactive icon switches between side-by-side and stacked without losing your widgets.
On portrait screens, the stage always splits Stacked (top and bottom), and the button toggles between Split stage and Combine.

Each stage in a split or grid layout operates independently with its own widget, Scenes, and Takeovers.

Design a 32:9 video wall as one wall or two monitors

On landscape 32:9 boards, the top of the Layout rail includes a Video wall control with two composition modes:

Whole wall: Runs one unified layout across the entire 32:9 canvas.
By monitor: Divides the wall into two equal 16:9 monitor sections side by side—Screen 1 on the left and Screen 2 on the right—so you can design each physical display separately.

When By monitor is active, compact Whole wall, Screen 1, and Screen 2 view buttons appear above the preview. Use Whole wall to check both monitors side by side, or select Screen 1 or Screen 2 to zoom into one monitor for detailed editing. Clicking a slot while viewing Whole wall opens that item’s settings directly without leaving the full-wall view.

By monitor splits a 32:9 wall into Screen 1 and Screen 2, with view buttons above the preview.

Switching an existing 32:9 board to By monitor for the first time copies and adapts your combined design onto Screen 1 and starts Screen 2 empty with Add content. Your Whole wall design and both monitor designs remain stored in the background if you switch back to Whole wall or change the screen profile to a standard display, and clicking Save once saves all of them.

Each monitor uses the standard layout styles (Split, Overlay, Fullscreen, Grid 3, and Grid 4) along with its own floor or room selections, Scenes, schedules, and Takeovers. Board-wide settings—appearance, display languages, mute, font size, device location, and clock—stay shared across both monitors.

Configure proportions, slots, and text bars

You can drag the seam on the canvas to resize the dock or split stages, toggle individual card and button slots in the rail, enable up to three scrolling text bars, or configure a reserved strip for wireless-sharing displays. For a field-by-field reference of every option on the Layout page, see Layout settings.

Verify and save your layout

Click the back arrow (←) to apply the layout draft and return to the live preview.
Click Save at the bottom of the rail.

Removing a card, button, or stage slot from the layout does not delete the widget configuration inside it. If you re-enable that slot later, its previous widget and settings return intact.

Scope and limitations

Assigning widgets to slots: See Widgets and the places they go.
Screen hardware size, shape, and orientation: Click the device caption below the live preview to open the Screen size dialog and re-fit the layout to a different display.
Font size: Font size is a board-wide display setting on the first page of the rail. It scales text inside widgets without changing the dimensions of the layout areas.