How To Schedule Recurring Playlists

Using a digital signage software like Fugo to manage and schedule content for your screens provides a lot of advantages compared to traditional methods like using USB drives or computer screen mirroring.

With Fugo, you can easily create playlists of content that will play on a recurring schedule you define - daily, weekly, or for specific times and days.

This article will walk through how to create recurring playlists in Fugo and some of the key reasons scheduling content is so useful.

Scheduling your digital signage content in Fugo has many benefits:

With the ability to schedule full playlists in Fugo, you can plan out your content in advance and ensure your screens always have helpful, relevant information for your audience.

The content you display on a recurring scheduled playlist will depend on your specific audience and use case. But here are a few examples of the kind of helpful information that makes sense to set on a schedule in different environments:

Think about what information would be most useful, actionable, or engaging to display on screens in your specific environment. This will help you identify the kinds of content that are worth scheduling on a recurring basis.

Now, let's dive into how to schedule your recurring playlist!

1. Log in to your Fugo account. If you haven't registered a Fugo account yet, you can head over to fugo.ai/app to start your 14-day free trial.

2. Navigate to the Playlist page in the top navigation bar.

3. Click either of the Create Playlist buttons.

4. This will open the playlist builder.

You can add screens, content, or scheduling in any order. For the purpose of this guide, we'll go sequentially down the page, starting with naming your playlist & adding a screen.

5. Start by giving your playlist a name in the top left corner of the page. We recommend using a name that's relevant & clear to make it easier to find in case you have multiple playlists.

I'll name mine "Morning Welcome & Sign in QR Code" since I want my playlist to show every morning as my employees & visitors come into the office:

5. Click Select Screens and choose the screen, screens, or screen group where you want this playlist to show.

If you have hyper local content that's relevant for only a small part of your network (E.g. your warehouse screens, then just select those.)

If you have content that's more broadly relevant to your entire network, you can choose All Screens.

I've just got one screen set up in my demo account, so I'll choose that one.

6. Your selected screen/s will be listed on the Screens card now:

7. Select content to add to your playlist by clicking Select Content.

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

Apps

Display a feed from one of Fugo's third party app integrations like Power BI, Looker, Google Slides, Canto, Dropbox & more.

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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

I'm going to select a slideshow of custom slides I created in the Design Studio from the Studio Content tab:

9. Click Add Items when you’ve finished choosing your content. It will now be listed on the Content card.

10. If you want to add more content to this playlist, click Add More Content and choose more items (such as an app, media, or dashboard.)

11. If you want to change the duration of this item in your playlist - that is, how long this item runs inside your playlist - you can do so in the Duration field.

Note that you can not change Design Studio content durations from the playlist builder - you'll need to do that in the studio (because you may have multiple slides with multiple elements of differing durations.)

12. Once your screen/s and content have been added, the playlist is ready to run. If you don't want to assign it any specific timing, you can hit Publish at the bottom of the builder.

Without any scheduling assigned, it will play indefinitely until you unpublish it.

13. If you want to get specific about when your playlist runs, then you can use the scheduling tools available on the Schedule card:

This allows you to set a start & end date for your playlist.

Untick the No End Date box to open the calendar so you can input your start & end dates.

Use this to assign your playlist to run on certain days & times. Click the Week Schedule box to open the week scheduler.

You can click & drag along the scheduler:

​Select entire days:

Even add specific time blocks down to the minute:

Because I want my playlist to run every morning in perpetuity, I will leave the No End Date box ticked and set my playlist to run Monday - Friday mornings from 8:00 - 11:00 AM:

With all your inputs ready, your playlist is almost done! You can:

Click Preview to run through your playlist:

Click Finish later to save your playlist & come back to it.

Click Publish to push it to your screen/s. If your playlist is not set to start until a later date, it will start on that date (you won't see your screen content update until then.)

14. Your new playlist will now be listed as a card on your Playlists page.

The great thing about Fugo is that once your playlist is published, you can easily make tweaks to the content and Fugo will automatically push the updated version to your screens.

1. From the Playlists page find your playlist card & click on the circular radio button.

This will open a menu on the bottom of the page - click Edit.

2. This will open your playlist back up in the playlist builder. From here, you can:

Click Publish when you're done making your edits & Fugo will update your playlist on screen.

You can also make changes to Studio content that’s already been published to a screen.

1. In the top navigation bar, select Studio from the Content dropdown menu.

2. Click on the card for the Studio item you'd like to edit.

3. This will open your content in the Studio. From here, you can make any tweaks you need to, such as:

4. When you're done with your edits, click Save & Close.

5. You’ll see a notification that your content has been updated across all screens that have it running.

Reach out to Fugo’s support team if you need any help getting your playlists set up.

You can chat with us in the chat box or reach out to support@fugo.ai.

📺 Happy publishing!