File Expiration and Scheduled Slides

Add a slide to your layouts on a set date, and take it off on another, without editing each layout. Good for promotions, holidays and events.

What you’ll need

Steps

  1. To take a file off screens on a date: in Files, open the file’s menu and click Set Expiration. Choose the Expiration date and, if you like, a Notification email, then click Save expiration. On that date the file is taken off your layouts. Clear expiration cancels it.

    The Set Expiration window with the Expiration date highlighted and an optional Notification email
  2. To add a file to layouts, now or on a date: open the file’s menu and click Add to Layout(s). Check the layouts (use Find a layout to search). Choose Add now, or Add on a date and pick the date. Set the Duration (seconds) or leave it at the layout default, then confirm. The file is added as the last slide of each layout’s main slideshow. Remove From Layout(s) works the same way.

    The Add to Layout(s) window with layouts to choose, and Add on a date selected with a date and duration
  3. To see what is coming up, click Files With Schedules on the Files page: it lists the files scheduled to be added and those scheduled to expire.

    The Files page with the Files With Schedules button highlighted

What’s next

Scheduling Playlist Changes: change whole layouts at set times.