Publishing a Playlist to show as a result of a trigger

How do I Publish a Playlist to show as the result of a trigger?

When publishing content, you're given the choice of setting content to display 'As the result of a trigger'. Whether you want to display KPIs, Emergency Messaging or a Welcome Messages, there are variety of triggers you can use to interrupt the content on your screen: 

• Web triggers 
• GPIO (Possible with IAdea and BrightSign (HD and above)) 
• Remote Control 
• Keyboard (Possible with BrightSign and Electron) 

Although these triggers may be configured, and even execute, in different ways, the content will be published in the same way.  It will also be stored locally on the device until receiving the trigger telling it to play. Watch this short video to learn more about how you can publish a Playlist that will only show as the result of a trigger:

Follow these steps to publish your Playlist to show as the result of a trigger:

• Login to your Signagelive Network as a User or Administrator
• Select Content
• Select Publish
• Select ‘As the result of a trigger’
• Select the ‘ Key Press’ Start trigger method
• Select one of the key press commands from the ‘Select Key Press’ menu
• You can choose any alphanumeric key press (A-Z or 1-0) as well as any Num Pad key press (Num Pad 0-9) or a GPIO (number Up or Down) command. These should reference the same key presses used by your method of trigger. 
• Select ‘Stop Trigger’
• Leaving this set to ‘None’ will play the triggered content (using duration settings below) before returning to the holding content
• Using the ‘Key Press’ method will continue to show the activated Web Trigger until the associated Stop Key Press is used to return to the holding content
• If using ‘Key Press’ as the stop method, continue to choose the required Key Press
• Select Duration
• ‘Play to the duration of the chosen content’ will play the content in its entirety before returning to the holding content. Supported on Brightsign and Legacy PC clients only.
• ‘Play for a configured duration’ allows you to set a duration that the triggered content will be displayed for before returning to the holding content
• If using a SMIL Player, you can tick the ‘On Interrupt, resume previous position [SMIL only]’ option which will return to the same point of content as when the trigger began, once triggered content ends
• Select ‘What do you want to publish?’
• Select ‘Playlist’
• Choose which Playlist you would like to show once triggered
• You can use the search bar and folders and Smart folders here to easily access your Playlists
• Select ‘Which Players do you wish to publish to’
• Press ‘Select Players’
• Select one or more Players to publish this Playlist to
• You can use the search bar and folders and Smart folders here to easily access your Players
• Select OK
• You will see the Players being checked for compatibility before being shown with any notifications (if any)
• When you are happy that your content can be published to the selected Players, press ‘Review & Publish’
• You will be shown a summary of your publication, again, press ‘Publish to Players’ when you are happy to proceed

Please Note

You can edit or change the current Playlist you have just published whilst still within the Publisher, however, once you move to a different area of Signagelive, you will need to restart the process

How can I find out more?

You can always search for answers with the Signagelive Help Centre, but rest assured we have a dedicated Support Team that is ready to assist you with any questions you may have. We are always here to help as best we can, so just contact us for any help you require.