Playlists

Use a Playlist to display a slideshow of multimedia during broadcast. Note that you must create a playlist first before it can be available for broadcast.

For more information on how to create a playlist, see the following page:

• Create playlist

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Select a playlist

To access the broadcast page to create a playlist broadcast, perform the following:

1. Go to the Devices page.
2. Select one or more devices in the list.
3. Click the Send broadcast  button. 
   The Send broadcast page opens.  
    
4. Click the Playlists tile. 
5. The Playlists popup should appear. 
   Perform the following on this new popup. 
   1. Locate and click the playlist to broadcast.
   2. Click Confirm.
      The Playlists page appears.

Set Playlist options

On the Playlists page, provide the following details:

• Playlist 
  By default, this will show the playlist selected from the previous step. Use the Preview window to review the contents of the playlist. To change the playlist, perform the following:
   
  1. Click the  Remove playlist icon. 
  2. Click the  Select playlist icon. 
  3. The Playlists popup should appear again. 
  4. Locate and click the playlist to broadcast. 
  5. Click Confirm to load that playlist.

• Basic Settings 
  Select the broadcast duration:
  
  
  • Run once. 
    The broadcast immediately stops once the playlist has completed one loop. 
     
  • Continuous. 
    Loops the content until device users dismiss the broadcast, or a Manager admin stops the broadcast. 
     
  • Custom. 
    Sets a custom duration for the broadcast. Playlist automatically stops once the duration has been reached. 

• Advanced settings 
  The following options are available:  
  
  
  • Forbid device user from stopping broadcast 
    Enable to prevent users from stopping the broadcast manually. If not checked, users can stop / hide / dismiss a broadcast from displaying on their device even if the Continuous or Custom duration was set. 
     
  • Continue broadcast when device is online 
    Resend message to devices that went offline, but have reconnected again, as long as the End time condition has not been met. 

Start the broadcast

Once you are satisfied with the content, click one of the following buttons:

  Send Broadcast 

Starts the broadcast.

 Save as template 

Create a template using the current settings that could be re-used later.

  Back or Cancel 

Return to the Broadcast page and select another broadcast type.

Broadcast behavior

Note the following behavior:

• By default, Manager shows each item for 20 seconds during playback. 
• A playlist can only contain 20 items. 
• Manager shows only the first 20 slides of a PPTX file.