Library

Overview

Click the Library tab in the left sidebar. The page opens on Media Files, with the page actions at the top, the folders under them, a row of tabs, and every media below.

The whole page is on the right. It stays there as you read, and moves to each option as it comes up.

What’s New

What's New opens the What’s New — Library & Playlist Folders panel, with questions and answers on how folders and folder access work, a video guide and a feature walkthrough. Use it to learn the folder features in the Library and Playlists.

Upload Media

+ Upload Media opens the Upload Files page, where you add images and videos to the Library. Drop files onto the panel, or click Browse Files to pick them from your device. .jpg, .jpeg, .png and .mp4 files are accepted.

Upload files to names where the files will land, so opening the page from inside a folder puts the files in that folder.

Upload Some Media in Initial Setup walks through an upload.

New Folder

+ New Folder opens the Create New Folder window, where you name a new folder and click Create. Use it to organize the Library’s media in folders of your own.

Folders

Folders, with the number beside it, holds the Library’s folders: the folders created when you created a group, and the folders created with + New Folder option here. Playlist folders are kept in the Playlists section.

Tabs

The row of tabs under Folders switches what the page shows.

Media Files

Media Files holds every image and video uploaded to the CMS account. The page opens on this tab.

Widgets

Widgets holds display templates, each showing content in its own style. Every widget type has a card, with the number of widgets built from it.

Media publish History

Media publish History shows what you published from the Library, when you published it, and on how many screens. Revert on a row takes that publish back off the screens.

Create Design

+ Create Design opens a design editor with interactive templates, for making your own designs.

Upload Requests and Publish Requests

Upload Requests holds the uploaded media waiting for approval, and Publish Requests holds the direct-from-Library publishes waiting for approval. A playlist’s own publish goes through its own queue on the Playlists page; the Maker-Checker permission section walks through that one. Both queues here follow the maker and checker settings given in the Team section, along with group access.

Media Toolbar

ALL MEDIA FILES carries the total number of media, with the controls for the grid beside it:

• All, Videos and Photos filter the grid by type.
• The sort menu has two options: Sort by Uploaded Date lists the media by the date they were uploaded, and Sort by Size lists them from the largest to the smallest. The grey button beside it reverses the order.
• Search finds media by name.
• The switch at the right moves between the grid and a list.

Media Options

Every media on the grid carries its dimensions, its color depth or bitrate, its name, owner, type and size, and the number of screens playing it. Clicking a media opens a preview window with its name, type, dimensions, bit rate, duration and created date.

Analytics

The blue Analytics button opens the media’s own page. The card at the top carries its details, with a Download button, and the tabs below it show where the media played: Playback Reports between two dates, Delivery Report, Target Screens and Publish History. File Analytics in Reports covers Playback Reports in depth.

Edit

The orange ✏️ Edit button opens a window that holds the media’s Name and its File Tags. Update saves what you change.

Variants

Variants sits on a video. It creates alternate versions of it, FHD (1080P) or HD (720P), so screens can play the version that suits them.

Publish

The purple Publish button opens the publish page for that media. The media sits in Active Media, where you set how long it plays, and Default Duration(sec) if not set covers the media if their own duration is not set. More media and widgets can be added from the panel on the right using drag and drop, and Select Screens carries you to the screens the media goes to.

Delete

The red Delete button opens Delete Media Files, which warns that the media leaves every slot it is assigned to. Continue deletes it, and Back keeps it.

Replace file

⋮ at the top right of a media opens Replace file, which puts a new file in place of this one.

Selecting media

Selecting the box on one or more media brings up a toolbar with Unpublish Files, Publish Files, Move Files and Delete Media.

Unpublish Files

Unpublish Files takes the selected media off the screen. Click Unpublish Files and select the screen on the next page.

Publish Files

Publish Files opens the publish page for the selected media, where you choose the screens through Select Screens on the next page.

Move Files

Move Files opens a window listing the folders in library, and moves the selected media into the one you pick.

Delete Media

Delete Media removes the selected media from the Library.