Overview

Design slides, build playlists, and schedule browser-based displays with Basker Screens

Basker Screens lets you design and schedule digital signage using content already in Basker. It is a beta feature available with the Screens add-on. Contact sales if you want to add Screens to your plan or if it does not appear in the admin navigation.

Use Screens for browser-based displays in foyers, box offices, front-of-house areas, and kiosks.

How Screens fits together

Design a template

A template is a reusable slide design. It defines the aspect ratio, zones, blocks, theme, and any places where a finished slide should pull in Basker content.

Create slides

A slide is the item an audience sees. Start from a template for a consistent design or build a one-off slide from scratch. A slide can contain fixed text and media, linked event or venue information, or both.

Build a playlist

A playlist puts slides in playback order and sets how many seconds each one appears. The playlist starts again after its final slide.

Schedule a channel

A channel is the output opened by a display. Add recurring time slots to decide which playlists run on which days and at which times.

Open the display

Open the channel on the display's full-screen browser. The player follows the site's timezone and checks for saved changes automatically.

The Screens tab is divided into two groups:

Programming contains Schedule, Channels, Playlists, and Slides.
Design contains Templates, Themes, and Settings.

Templates and slides are deliberately separate. Templates are reusable starting points; slides are the finished items placed in playlists.

A good first display

For a first test, keep the setup small:

Create one 16:9 template with a single zone.
Create two slides from it and add different text or images.
Put both slides in a playlist with a short duration.
Create a 16:9 channel and schedule that playlist all day.
Use Open screen to preview it before opening the public channel URL on a display.

Once that works, add dynamic content, more detailed layouts, and recurring time periods.

Learn each part

Create and edit slides

Create a slide from scratch or start from a reusable template.

Build reusable templates

Define repeatable layouts and dynamic content slots.

Blocks and dynamic content

Add content blocks and connect them to Basker records.

Schedule playback

Arrange recurring playlist time slots across your channels.