Industry Playbooks
These tutorials start with a real display task and take you through content preparation, program creation, playback settings and deployment checks. Build and test on one Player first, then expand to other devices.
Choose a project
| Your setting | What you will build | Main features |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurants: menus and dayparts | A readable price list, rotating product images and scheduled breakfast/lunch menus | A real template, text and image replacement, recurring schedules |
| Retail chains: promotions across stores | Portrait posters, shared store updates and a return to regular content after a campaign | Portrait regions, device groups, one-time schedules, append casting |
| Business: reception and showroom displays | Company video, welcome text, visitor information and a live clock | Video/text regions, digital clock, temporary welcome programs |
| Schools and communities: noticeboards | Documents, event images and a reminder strip | PDF/image pages, readable text, recurring and temporary notices |
| Hospitals and malls: interactive directories | Menu buttons that switch the information shown on the right | Fixed playback, screen-jump actions, Home button, remote focus |
For a first project, start with a menu or reception display. The interactive directory adds click actions and works best after you can already add regions and media.
Template or blank program?
A similar template exists: open Template in the Admin app, check its orientation and regions, then select Use This Template to create your own program. Replace its content afterwards. See creating from a template.
No suitable template: create a landscape or portrait program, start with a single region and add sub-screens using the layout tables in each case. Adjust the proportions to suit your display.
The restaurant case uses the current catalog's 奶茶店菜单 (milk-tea shop menu) as a real example. Template names and availability can vary by channel. If it is unavailable, use the simplified layout in the same tutorial.
Prepare before editing
| Item | What to confirm |
|---|---|
| Orientation and aspect ratio | Ordinary landscape TVs often use 16:9; portrait displays often use 9:16. Check the actual display area |
| Content | Write titles, prices, notices or directory entries before gathering images, video and documents |
| One test Player | Confirm a simple program can play first. See casting methods |
| An update owner | Decide who changes prices, retires promotions and checks notice expiry dates |
A finished poster is quickest to show as an image. Frequently changed prices and welcome messages can be separate text media. Existing business systems may use web pages; fixed content can also use a web ZIP package. The basic projects here require no programming.
Understand the three layers
| Layer | What it controls | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Program | Overall orientation, background and saving | “Store lunch menu” is one program |
| Sub-screen | A region's position, size, transitions and interaction | Price list, promotion panel, bottom reminder |
| Media | The actual content and its display duration | An image, video, text item or PDF |
Different sub-screens appear simultaneously. Multiple media items inside one region normally play in sequence. Three images in one region make a slideshow; three images shown at once need separate regions.
Read the layout tables
Coordinates refer to the whole program canvas: the top-left corner is 0%, 0%, and the bottom-right is 100%, 100%.
For example, “horizontal 0% → 60%, vertical 12% → 90%” means a region covering the left 60% of the width, starting 12% down and ending at 90% of the canvas height. Enter these start/end values in the editor's width/height controls. See editing sub-screens.
Layout illustrations explain the teaching examples. They are not app screenshots or importable program files. Actual template screenshots are identified separately.
Follow the same workflow
- Prepare content: collect the text, prices and files.
- Create the layout: use a template or add regions at the suggested coordinates.
- Fill each region: select the intended sub-screen before adding media.
- Set playback and actions: media controls display duration, sub-screens control transitions, and casting relations control calendar schedules.
- Preview, save and cast: save successfully, then send to one test Player.
- Check on site and maintain: verify viewing distance, full playback cycles, schedule changes and later updates before expanding deployment.
Sending the same program to several independent devices does not automatically synchronize their frames. For neighboring screens that must change together, see same-content synchronization. For one picture across multiple screens, compare multi-screen layouts and video walls.
Find detailed controls
- Orientation, cover and saving: program settings.
- Background, padding, animation, fixed playback and focus: sub-screen settings.
- Content and media options: editing media and media types.
- Daily schedules, campaign expiry and priorities: play plans.
Start with the restaurant menu, or open the case closest to your work.