Signagelive's Weekly Recurring Schedule feature is a powerful tool for pre-planning content playback over extended periods. It ensures that your screens always display the right message at the right time without constant manual intervention.
What is the Weekly Recurring Schedule?
The Weekly Recurring Schedule allows you to publish Playlists and Layouts that automatically repeat on a weekly cycle. (learn more about creating a playlist here.)
This means you can set content to play on specific days and times, and have that schedule repeat every week, or even every few weeks, for a defined duration.
The default setting for weekly recurrence is one week, meaning your schedule will repeat every week. However, you have the flexibility to alter this to any number of weeks you would like (e.g., every 2 weeks, every 3 weeks, etc.).
Why Would You Use Weekly Recurring Schedules?
Weekly Recurring Schedules are incredibly helpful for managing content that follows a regular pattern. This feature enables you to "set it and forget it" for many common digital signage use cases, such as:
Pre-planning weekly or monthly content rotations: |
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Managing operating hours content: |
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Educational or informational loops: |
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Example: If you set a schedule to repeat "Every 2 Week(s)," your content will display on your chosen days during the first week, then skip the next week, and then display again on the selected days in the third week, and so on, starting from your chosen 'Start Date'.
How Do You Configure a Weekly Recurring Schedule?
Before you read our instructions, here's a quick overview video:
Follow these steps to set up your recurring content schedule:
Log in to your Signagelive account.
Navigate to the Content tab in the main menu.
Click on Publish.
Under the "When do you want this content to play?" section, select Between the Chosen Date and times.
You will now see options to define your schedule:
Choose your Start and End Dates:
Start Date: Select the exact date you want your recurring schedule to begin. This is crucial as the 'Every X Week(s)' count starts from this date.
End Date (Optional but Recommended): While not mandatory, we highly recommend setting an End Date for your schedule. This ensures your recurring content doesn't play indefinitely if its relevance expires.
Define your Daily Play Times:
Set the Start Time and End Time for when your content should display each day it's active.
Select Play on selected days: This option allows you to choose specific days of the week for your content to play.
Click the checkboxes next to the days you want your content to be active (e.g., Monday, Wednesday, Friday).
Configure Weekly Recurrence:
You will now see the option 'Every X Week(s)'.
If this is highlighted, your content within this published schedule will only appear on the chosen days (from "Play on selected days") within the specified weekly recurrence.
Enter the number of weeks for your recurrence cycle (e.g., '1' for every week, '2' for every other week, '4' for monthly rotations based on week number).
What do you want to publish?
Click on the Step 2 tab.
Choose whether you want to publish a Playlist (full-screen content) or a Layout (multi-zone content).
Select your desired Playlist or Layout from the options provided. A preview will appear on the left.
Which Players do you want to publish to?
Click on the Step 3 tab.
Click Select Players.
A window will appear allowing you to select which players will receive this recurring schedule.
Click Review & Publish to see a summary of your chosen settings.
Finally, click the green Publish to Players button to send your recurring schedule to the selected players.
Important Notes:
Several important notes for you regarding this particular feature:
"When nothing else is scheduled" is essential: We strongly recommend always setting a "When nothing else is scheduled" piece of content for your players. This is a dependable fallback, ensuring something is always visible on your screen if your recurring schedules are inactive or have gaps.
Enhanced SMIL Devices: Currently, enhanced SMIL devices require a 1-second gap between each recurring schedule to function properly. Please keep this in mind when creating multiple overlapping schedules for these devices.
Legacy Players: This weekly recurring schedule feature is not supported on older, legacy player types. Ensure your players are compatible before attempting to use this feature.
Following these steps, you can efficiently manage complex content rotations and keep your digital signage fresh and engaging with minimal ongoing effort.