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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:
Advanced license required
This feature is only available for devices assigned with an Advanced license. For more information, see the articles below:
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Start a broadcast
To add a playlist element to your broadcast, perform the following:
- Go to the Ā All Devices page.
- Select one or more devices in the list.Ā
Selected devices must all have anĀ Advanced license assigned.
- Click the BroadcastĀ Ā button to launch theĀ Broadcast popup.
- Click Ā Media Content as theĀ Broadcast Type.Ā
The Media content option is only available if all selected devices have anĀ Advanced license assigned.- Select a Layout.Ā
- Click Ā Add content on the panel where the playlist should appear.
- Select Playlist from the dropdown menu.
The Playlists window should appear. Perform the following on this new window.
- Locate and click the playlist to broadcast.
- Click Confirm.
You should be back on the Broadcast window.Ā
- Continue adding other media into the remaining sections of your layout.Ā
- Set additional parameters for this broadcast.Ā
- Once done, click Confirm to start the broadcast.
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.Ā
- A playlist can be set to play only once by using theĀ Duration option. If enabled, the broadcast will terminate once the playlist has completed. This option is only available if the single media layout option is selected.