Adding slides to a screen
Add a slide directly to a single screen. For shared content across multiple screens, build a playlist instead.
Introduction
A screen plays its content as a continuous slideshow, looping top to bottom. Each item in that slideshow is a slide. This article walks through adding slides directly to a single screen. If you want the same content on multiple screens, build a playlist instead and assign it to those screens.
Step 1: Open the screen
Find the screen in the Platform:
- Sign in to app.infoboxi.com.
- Open InfoBox screens (FI: InfoBox näytöt) from the side menu.
- Click the screen you want to add content to.
Step 2: Click Add new
Open the slide-creation modal:
- At the top of the screen's slide list, click Add new (FI: Lisää uusi).
- The Add new content (FI: Lisää uusi sisältö) modal opens with all available slide types.
Step 3: Pick a slide type
Choose what you want to display:
- Image (FI: Kuva): JPG, PNG, or WebP. Pick from the Media Library or upload a new file.
- Video (FI: Video): MP4 (H.264) only. Plays without sound.
- PDF: each page of the PDF becomes its own sub-slide automatically.
- iFrame (FI: iFrame): any public HTTPS URL, displayed inline.
- YouTube: paste a standard YouTube URL.
- Power BI: paste a Publish to web embed URL.
- Playlist (FI: Soittolista): embed an existing playlist as a single slide on this screen.
Tip
If you've already uploaded files to the Media Library, picking from there is faster than uploading a new file each time. Files in the Media Library are reusable across screens and playlists.
Step 4: Configure the slide
Fill in the type-specific fields:
- For images, videos, and PDFs: pick an existing file from your Media Library, or upload a new one.
- For URL-based slides (iFrame, YouTube, Power BI): paste the URL.
- For playlists: pick which playlist to embed.
- Click Add (FI: Lisää) to insert the slide into the screen.
Step 5: Reorder and adjust
Tune the slideshow:
- Drag slides up or down in the list to reorder.
- Click any slide to fine-tune its settings (display duration, schedule, rotation, visibility). See Slide settings.
- Click the preview button (FI: Esikatselu) to see what the slideshow will look like before publishing.
Step 6: Publish
Push the slideshow live:
- Click Publish (FI: Julkaise) at the top of the editor.
- A success toast confirms publishing.
- Within a few seconds, the screen starts playing the new content.
Note
Publish does more than save. It pushes the slideshow to the paired Android device via a multi-phase resync. Devices typically pick up new content within 5-30 seconds.
Direct slides vs playlists
When to use each approach:
- Direct slides are right when content is unique to one screen and unlikely to be reused.
- Playlists are right when the same content should play on multiple screens, or when you'll want to reuse it elsewhere later. See What's a playlist.
Summary
Adding a slide is a click-add-publish flow. The same modal handles every slide type. For content that should reach more than one screen, use a playlist.
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