Scheduling Content | easyCMS Digital Signage

The schedule decides what plays on which screen, and when. In easyCMS Studio that is the Play on… button on every design, and the Schedule page. The classic schedule is still there for layouts built in the advanced editor and for a few advanced cases.

In Studio

Open the design in Designs and tap Play on….
Tick the screens or groups under On which screens?.
Under When should it play?, choose Always, Dates & times, Repeat or Weather.
Choose Take turns or Instead of what plays, then press Send.

You want	In Studio
Content all the time	Always. Several Always designs take turns.
Breakfast menu 07:00–11:00, every weekday	Repeat, Mon–Fri, 07:00 to 11:00
A weekend offer	Dates & times
One message on every screen, now	Urgent notice on the Designs page
The same content on several screens	A group, in My screens > Groups

The Schedule page shows what each screen plays, marks what is On now, and has Edit and Stop on every entry. Full steps: putting your design on a screen.

In the advanced editor

Use the classic Schedule for classic layouts and campaigns, and for what Studio does not offer: priorities, dayparts, overlays and share-of-voice interrupts. Open it with Switch to classic easyCMS in Studio’s account menu.

Add an event

Open Schedule and click Add Event.
Pick the Event Type (for example Layout, Campaign, Playlist, Overlay or Interrupt) and what plays: a published layout, a campaign or a playlist.
Tick the displays, or better, a display group: a screen added to the group later inherits its schedule.
Choose Always, a daypart or a custom time range, with repeats if needed.
Set priority and display order in the further options.

You can also schedule straight from a layout’s or playlist’s row menu.

Dayparts

A daypart is a named time band, such as “Breakfast 07:00–11:00”. Define it once and schedule against it. See timezones and dayparting.

Priority

Events with equal priority take turns, in Display Order (lowest first; unset means order of creation).
A higher priority event pushes aside lower ones for as long as it runs, but only events of the same type. A high-priority Layout event leaves an Overlay alone: most “priority did nothing” reports are two different types.

Keep normal content at the default priority, and use higher ones for takeovers. Give each display a low-priority always event as a fallback, so a gap never shows a blank screen.

Campaigns, overlays and interrupts

A campaign plays several layouts in order as one unit. Build one in Campaigns with Add Campaign and the Layout List type.
An Overlay event draws a layout on top of whatever plays, for a logo or a news strap.
An Interrupt (share of voice) event guarantees a layout a share of airtime, in seconds per hour or a percentage.

How changes reach the screens

Players check in, download new content ahead of time and play from their own storage, so they keep playing offline. A layout already playing finishes its current item first: a screen looping a five-minute video can switch several minutes late. That is the most common reason a schedule looks missed when it was not.