How to Schedule a Creative or Playlist

One of the most powerful features in our digital signage platform is scheduling. It gives you complete control over when your content plays—by date, time, and even day of the week.

Scheduling Levels & Use Cases

You can apply scheduling at different levels, depending on how you want your content to behave:

Creative within a Playlist – control exactly when a specific creative plays (by date range, time of day, or days of the week)
Playlist within a Screen – assign multiple playlists to a screen and control when each one is shown

Examples:

Show one playlist on weekdays and a different one on weekends
Display a daytime creative during business hours and switch to a nighttime creative after hours (e.g., as a screensaver)

This flexibility allows you to create dynamic and highly targeted content schedules with ease.

How to Schedule a Creative

Open a playlist in Edit Mode.
Hover over a creative thumbnail.
Clicking the calendar icon (datetime picker) on the top corner of the creative will allow you to schedule it.
A scheduling window will appear where you can set:
- Start and end dates
- Times
- Days of the week

How to Schedule a Playlist

Open a screen in Edit Mode.
Hover over a playlist thumbnail.
Click the calendar icon (datetime picker) on the top corner of the playlist.
Choose your desired schedule settings.

Playlist scheduling works the same way as creative scheduling

Schedule playlists within player

Scheduling Options

When scheduling a Creative or Playlist, you can choose from several flexible options depending on how and when you want your content to appear on screen:

Use this option to display your content on specific days of the week.

Select one or multiple days (Sunday–Saturday)
Enable Recurring play if you want the schedule to repeat continuously
Ideal for regular weekly content like business hours, menus, or recurring announcements

weekly

Choose this option to schedule content for specific dates.

Set a Start date and optional End date
Use Forever if no end date is required
Enable Yearly recurring for events that repeat annually (e.g., holidays, campaigns)

custom date

You can add more than one date range to the same Creative or Playlist.

Click + Add date to include additional time periods
Each date range can have its own settings
Useful for complex schedules or split campaigns

Note: Multiple date ranges are supported only on Android players version 5.0.86 and above

Add date

Schedule Status Indicators

Once a creative is scheduled, a small clock icon overlay will appear on its thumbnail, indicating that scheduling has been applied.

scheduled

If the creative is outside of its scheduled time and not currently set to play, it will be labeled as “Expired.”

expired

These visual indicators help you quickly understand the current status of your content at a glance.

Important: Playlist vs Creative Priority:

If both a playlist and a creative inside it are scheduled:

The playlist schedule takes priority, since it is in a higher hierarchy.
For example: If a creative is set to play Monday morning, but the playlist is only scheduled for weekends, the creative won’t play on Monday.

Watch Tutorial Video

Watch this quick tutorial to learn how to use the Scheduling tool to control when your content appears on screen. It will guide you step-by-step through setting time slots, assigning playlists, and ensuring your content plays exactly when you need it.