We are constantly working to add features to BrightSign Author. However, the following features from legacy BrightAuthor are not yet supported:

Preferences

Unsupported Features

This is our legacy cloud platform. Our latest cloud platform is BrightSign Cloud, aka BSN.Cloud. Development of BSN has largely ceased and will eventually be deprecated.

BrightSign_Network_BSN

BrightSign’s *legacy* app for authoring and managing players. The app's actual name is BrightAuthor but is referred to as BrightAuthor Classic to lessen confusion with BrightSign Author, our latest app.

BrightAuthor_Classic

BrightSign’s latest free, all-in-one app for player setup / management, authoring, and content management.

BrightAuthorconnected

BrightSign's record of a player and its Setup File. The Default Setup File is assigned to the player unless another Setup File has been explicitly set.

Provision_Record

The process where a player is registered with BrightSign and a Setup File is assigned to the player.

Provision

Presentations

Interactivity

Video Guides

Add GitHub Plugins

Add Plugins to Presentations

Add Node.js to Presentations

Convert Video Formats

Standard (Linked / Sync'd) Videowalls

Bezel Compensation for Video Walls

Create a VideoWall

Create GPIO Input

Create Image Transitions

Display a Direct View LED Presentation

Display a Google Calendar

Display an Excel File

Display YouTube Videos

Encode Final Cut MOV Files for TSMuxer

Get Optimal 4K Image Quality

Migrate Local Setups from BrightAuthor Classic to BrightSign Author

Pause / Resume a Video

Play Back Multiscreen Video

Play PowerPoint Presentations

Play Videos with Audio Despite Chromium Restrictions

Quick Publish

Quicktime for Looping Files

Restrict/Allow Access in Author Plus

Seamlessly Loop Videos

Send a Serial Command on Receiving a UDP Message

Send Hex Commands

Set GPIO Outputs On/Off

Sleep / Wake a Display

Switch Presentations

Sync Zones (latest)

Sync Zones (old)

Sync Zones

Use GPIO on Players

Use Plugins & Parsers

How-tos

Author

Languages

Network Status

BrightSign Cloud Status

Dashboard and Menus

Undocking Panels

Tagging

Content

Creating a Presentation

Event Properties

Zones

Commands & Conditional Targets

Presentation Settings

State Properties

Presentation

Schedule

Network

Users

Roles

Setup

Setup Library

Activate

Subscriptions

Admin

BrightSign Author

General FAQs

Feature FAQs

FAQs

Feature	Notes / Workarounds
BrightWall	Synchronized presentation sets still work, you just cannot create a BrightWall as a single "packaged" presentation
Clock zones in Author Plus presentations
Content Encryption
Custom local fonts in HTML5 states	Include the custom font in a Ticker zone. There doesn't need to be content in the Ticker zone, just specify the font in the Zone Properties, then use the font in HTML assuming it's already defined.
Dynamic Playlist used outside of Author Plus	This can be used in locally-published presentations
Image cache
Interactive Menu State
Mosaic Mode
Presentation Preview
Tagged Playlist use outside of Author Plus	This can be used in locally-published presentations
User Stylesheet (CSS injection) for HTML5 states