Sending content to a screen

You send content to a screen from Files: right-click the item, choose Send to screen, select the screens, and click Send. The content appears within a few seconds. In the send window you also choose whether the content stays put or disappears at an end time.

Step by step

Go to Files in the sidebar.
Right-click the item you want to show and choose Send to screen. If you already have the file open in the preview window, use the Send to screen button there.
At the top, choose Permanent or Temporary.
Under Scale, choose how the content fits the screen.
Check one or more screens. Use Select all screens to select them all at once.
Click Send.

If your screens are organized into folders, use the Search screens field at the top of the list; it searches across all folders at once, including sub-screen names. Screens with a lock icon are locked and cannot be checked; unlock them first, see Locking a screen to its content.

Permanent or temporary

Permanent: the content stays on the screen until you stop it or send something else. Use this for content that should stay up until further notice.
Temporary: the content plays until an end time you set under End time. That defaults to an hour from now, with buttons for 5 min, 15 min, 1 hour, 8 hours, 1 day, and 1 week, or any date and time you like. Use this for announcements, events, or short campaigns.

With Temporary, a file can also be set to Delete file after display, and along with that to Skip trash if you want.

You can only send temporarily to screens that are online; for an offline screen you get the message A temporary send only works on screens that are online. A permanent send to an offline screen stays queued and is delivered later: Will be delivered as soon as the screen reconnects. A schedule cannot be sent temporarily, only permanently.

There is more about sending temporarily in Showing content on a screen temporarily.

How the content fits the screen

The Scale option only appears when you send a single file. There are four options:

Fill: fills the whole screen and may crop the edges.
Fit: shows all of the content, with bars wherever space is left over.
Stretch: stretches the content to the whole screen.
Original: shows the content at its original size.

If space is left over at the sides or at the top and bottom, those bars take the background color of the screen for images and PDFs. You set that color under Screen settings. For videos, the bars are always black.

Sending a playlist

Playlists follow the same flow from Playlists, except that the Scale option isn't there. See Sending a playlist to a screen.

Taking content off a screen

Go to Screens and click the screen.
Under Current content you see what is running now. Click Stop content to stop it.
If a temporary send is running, it shows under Temporary with its end time. Click Cancel temporary content there.

Frequently asked questions

The content doesn't appear on the screen

Check the Status column under Screens. If the screen is Offline, check the device's internet connection; a permanent send is still delivered once the screen is back online. If it is Unpaired, pair it again, see Pairing a screen.

The wrong content stays up

A temporary send may still be active. Open the screen and cancel it under Temporary. If nothing is active, the content is coming from the screen's schedule, see Creating a schedule.

I can't check the screen

The screen is locked to its current content. Unlock it in the screen settings first, see Locking a screen to its content.