Manual Trigger Setup

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Triggers let your screens respond to specific moments, conditions, or actions. Instead of scheduling content, a trigger displays a playlist the moment its rule is met, then your screens return to their normal rotation.

There are two main types of triggers in Fugo:

Manual triggers
These are fired directly by you. When you click the trigger button in the CMS, Fugo immediately takes over your screens with the playlist you selected. They’re ideal for quick announcements, office greetings, all-hands moments, or anything that needs to go live on demand.

Service triggers
These fire automatically from events in connected tools (such as a deal moving stage in HubSpot). They require a linked service and a defined rule, and Fugo handles the rest in real time.

This guide focuses on manual triggers - the fastest way to push content to your screens exactly when you need it.

If you want to be able to quickly trigger a playlist that overtakes your current content, you can do so with a manual trigger.

1. Log into your Fugo account.

2. Navigate to the Triggers page from the top navigation bar and click either of the Create Trigger buttons.

3. This will open up the Trigger builder:

4. Give your trigger a name.

I'll call mine "Welcome client to office" since I'm going to trigger this content when my client enters my office.

5. Click Add source.

6. Choose the Manual trigger option.

7. Your manual trigger will now be listed as a pane under your Trigger Source.

Now that your trigger source is in place, you'll need to choose or create some content to fire when you manually activate your trigger.

1. On the Content card, click Select Content.

2. This will open the content picker where you can choose between:

Apps

Display a feed from one of Fugo's third party app integrations.

👉 Discover Fugo's apps

Media

Display an image, video, audio, or presentation file you've uploaded to your media library.

👉 Learn what media types we support & how to upload it to Fugo

Studio Content

Display a slide or slideshow you've created in the Design Studio.

👉 Learn how to design custom slides that bring together text, media, apps, and animations with our Design Studio.

Dashboards

Display a dashboard you've connected and saved to your Dashboard library via the TV Dashboards feature.

👉 Learn how to authenticate with your preferred data or anlaytics platforms in Fugo

For my content, I'm going to choose a slide I created in the Design Studio for welcoming clients into my office:

3. When you've chosen your content, it will be listed as a pane in your content card.

Finally, now that you've set you've set your trigger and display content, you need to tell Fugo which screens it should display on!

1. Click Select Screens.

2. This will open a pop up window for you to either choose from your already-paired screens or pair a new screen.

3. When you've assigned your screen/s - that's it! Click Create Trigger to set it live.

4. Your new trigger will now be listed on your Triggers page.

When you're ready to fire off this content, you can click either:

Play once: Play this content just one time for the duration you assigned it while building your trigger.

Loop: Play this content on a loop until you manually stop it with the Stop button.

Fugo supports several types of trigger sources beyond manual triggers. Each one lets you fire a playlist based on a different kind of event or condition.

You’ll be able to set up triggers from:

If you run into issues, can’t find the trigger source you need, or something isn’t working as expected, we’re here to help.

Reach out through the chat box in the Fugo CMS or email us at support@fugo.ai, and our team will get you sorted.