A price list, opening hours, a sales target and a list of events have the same shape: a few lines that change often, inside a design that should not. In easyCMS Studio you keep those lines as a list, change one, and the screen updates within a minute or two. Nobody opens a design tool, exports a picture or uploads it again.
If you have ever redone a whole menu picture because one price moved by 20 cents, this is for you.
Where your lines live in Studio
There are three places, depending on what the lines are. Type them once; the designs that show them follow.
| What changes | Where you change it | What follows |
|---|---|---|
| Dishes, prices, sold out | Menu & prices | Every menu board that shows that menu |
| Name, logo, Wi-Fi, opening hours, team, contact | Your info | Every design that shows them |
| A timetable, a list of events, a target | The list inside the design | That design, on every screen it plays on |
In the classic editor this was the job of DataSets. Studio does the same with plain lists, so there is no table to set up and no row template to style.
Four examples
A price list
Dishes and prices live in Menu & prices. Change a price once and every menu board follows; tap Sold out and the dish leaves the screens.
Opening hours
Type your hours once in Your info and press Save. Every opening-hours design you use updates, on every screen showing it.
A target board
Type the amount so far and the goal; Studio draws the bar and the percentage. Change one number on Friday and the board is current.
A list of events
Time, what and where, one line each. The Timetable design marks what is on now and what comes next by itself.
More for restaurants in digital menu boards, and every design on our templates page.
Already have it in a spreadsheet?
You do not have to type a menu again. In Menu & prices, ✨ Import a menu reads an Excel or CSV file, a PDF or photos of a printed menu. Check the prices and allergens before you show them.
For other lists, copy the lines across once. After that, Studio is the master copy: change the line there, not in the spreadsheet.
Four rules that keep a list useful
One fact per line
Day and hours, dish and price, time and room. Short lines read from across the room; sentences do not.
Hide rather than delete
Mark a dish Sold out instead of removing it. It comes back with one tap when the soup does.
Try it full
Add lines until the preview looks crowded. Better to find the limit now than on your busiest day.
Name an owner
A list is only as good as the person who keeps it current. Decide who that is before the screen goes up.
What lists cannot do
A list is something you keep, not a live link to your till, booking system or Google Sheet. If a number must update itself with nobody involved, a live web page or dashboard is the better tool; see dashboards for digital signage.
Changes are not instant either. Screens pick them up within a minute or two, which is fine for prices and targets and wrong for a live queue counter. And a list shows lines and numbers, not charts.
Every Studio account has all of this, from the 49€ account, with no extra fee per screen. Text barely touches your storage.
For your IT team: DataSets
Need a large table, filters, or regular CSV imports from another system? DataSets still work in the advanced editor: a table in the CMS, filled by hand or from a CSV, shown in a layout. The walkthrough is in dynamic content with DataSets.
Not sure which of your screens should be a list and which a live page? Email info@myeasycms.com and describe the content.