Put content on a board

Everything on a board is opened by clicking it in the preview. There is no list of widgets to work through and no properties panel to hunt in: click the thing you want to change, and the rail on the right becomes its settings.

A board has five kinds of place

What you are offered when you click depends entirely on where you clicked, because a tall column and a small square tile cannot hold the same things.

Which of these your board actually has is a layout question, not a content one — see Change a board’s layout.

What can go where

The main stage plays in one of three ways

Click the stage and the first thing in the rail is Content mode.

Single is one widget, all the time. There is no scene list and no timer: the widget’s own settings are edited on this page, and the content row at the top is also how you change it for another.

Playlist rotates. Each entry is a scene, scenes are dragged into order, and each has a Duration in seconds — leave it blank and it uses the board’s default of 20. The eye on a row turns a scene off without deleting it, which is how you park a seasonal notice rather than rebuilding it next year. A video or a slideshow does not get cut off mid-play: playback widgets move the playlist on when they finish.

Schedule runs a week. Instead of a rotation you drag blocks onto a weekly grid and each block names the widget to show in that period — a canteen menu at midday, a welcome screen in the morning, something else on Saturdays.

Switching between the three throws nothing away. A playlist sleeps while the stage is in Single mode and comes back exactly as it was, and so does a schedule.

Takeovers: when the board interrupts itself

A takeover is not another scene. It replaces whatever the stage is playing for as long as it has something to say, and then hands back.

There are three, and where two are due at once the one higher in this list wins:

The middle two are named the other way round from what most people expect: Event is an event from the Activity module, Booking is a room booking.

The list shows only the takeovers that are on — being listed is being enabled. The Add pill on the heading turns another one on and opens it; Remove at the foot of a takeover’s page turns it off and keeps its settings for later. There is no on/off switch beyond that.

Two settings on Visitor welcome decide almost everything about how a reception screen behaves. Show chooses between guests who have checked in and guests who are expected around their appointment time — a screen behind the desk usually wants the first, a screen at the door the second. Greet chooses between every check-in across the buildings this screen belongs to, and only the guests who scanned this screen’s own QR code.

Settings that apply to the whole board

The rail’s first page — the one it opens on, and the one the ← arrow always returns to — is the board itself rather than anything on it.

Two of those rows carry only an icon and their value — the fill slider directly under Appearance is the widget background, and the one below it is the corner radius. Everything else on the page is named.

Any single widget can override the font size on top of this, on its own settings page — useful where one card holds a long list and everything else is a headline.

What this does not control

• Which places exist at all. How many cards, whether there is a side column, which edge it sits on — all of that is the layout, in Change a board’s layout.
• What a widget actually shows. A booking list shows the bookings that exist; a visitor list shows the visits that were invited. The board reports, it never decides.
• Where the board thinks it is. Widgets that need a place read the device’s location, not the board’s — see Build a signage board and put it on a screen.