Publishing & assignment

Ways to assign content

• Assign a slide — in the Slides Library, a slide card's Assign button opens a picker with Individual Screens and Screen Groups tabs. The slide plays immediately and overrides any schedule.
• Schedule a playlist — this is the only way to put a playlist on a screen. On the Screens page, open a screen's Schedule, then Add Rule: pick the playlist, a time range, the days it runs, and a priority. Groups take schedule rules the same way.
• Deploy an urgent message — the Urgent Ad button composes a message (style, text, and how long it runs) and pushes it to a screen or a group, ahead of everything else, until it expires or you stop it.

Resolution order

When several of these apply at once, the screen picks the highest-priority one, top to bottom:

1. 1Urgent message — this screenAn urgent message deployed to the screen itself. Plays until it expires or you stop it.
2. 2Urgent message — the groupAn urgent message deployed to a group the screen belongs to.
3. 3Assigned slideA single slide assigned to the screen from the Slides Library. Overrides every schedule below.
4. 4Schedule rule — this screenA playlist scheduled on the screen for the current day and time. Highest priority wins an overlap.
5. 5Schedule rule — the groupA playlist scheduled on the screen's group.
6. 6Group slideA slide assigned to the whole group.
7. 7Group playlistA playlist set on the group.
8. 8Group fallback playlistThe group's default, used when nothing above applies.
9. 9IdleNothing applies — the screen shows "System Ready".

How fast it goes live

When you publish, VitVue broadcasts the change to your screens in real time, so updates appear within seconds. As a safety net, players also poll for changes and keep a local copy of their content.

Until a screen has any content, it displays System Ready — assign a slide, or schedule a playlist, to bring it to life. To confirm afterwards that it really ran, Playback insights counts plays per day and per screen.