Lock a screen to its content

You lock a screen in Screens: click the screen, open Advanced at the bottom, turn on Lock content, and click Save. From then on the screen refuses every change to what is playing on it. This is not a kiosk lock and no PIN code is involved: the lock sits on the link between the screen and its content, not on the content itself.

What the lock blocks

Blocked for as long as the screen is locked:

  • Sending content to the screen permanently.
  • Sending content to the screen temporarily, including a takeover through screen mirroring.
  • Changes to the sub-screens of a split screen on this screen.
  • Deleting the playlist, design, or file the screen is locked to.

Not blocked: what is inside that playlist or design. Adding, removing, and reordering items works as usual, and the change shows up on the locked screen too.

Lock a screen

  1. Go to Screens in the sidebar.
  2. Click the screen you want to lock. The screen settings open.
  3. Expand Advanced at the bottom.
  4. Turn on Lock content. Below it you see which content the screen is being locked to.
  5. Click Save.

Unlock a screen

  1. Open the same screen settings and expand Advanced.
  2. Turn off Lock content.
  3. Click Save.

After that you can send content to the screen as usual again.

What you see in the dashboard

In the screen overview, a locked screen has a small lock next to it. In the window for sending content, the screen is still listed but you can't click it; you read there which content it is locked to, along with the hint Unlock the screen first in its settings.

Try it another way anyway and the server refuses the change. So the lock isn't only in the dashboard buttons.

Permissions

Locking and unlocking happen in the screen settings, so they need the same edit permissions on screens as the other screen settings. See Screen settings and Manage teams and roles.

See also

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