A Dynamic Playlist widget in a presentation points to an external bucket of content in a 

. The widget constantly checks the contents of that bucket to make sure it’s up-to-date. These widgets can be used in presentations where the structure and layout of the presentation remains unchanged, but the content of the Dynamic Playlist widget changes based on the content and order of the items in the source playlist.

: Select this to make this state the home screen

This section lets you select a Dynamic Playlist to populate the state.

This section lets you modify other options associated with the Dynamic Playlist. 

: Specify how often the player should refresh the contents of the Dynamic Playlist.

: Check this box to have the player make an HTTP HEAD request before retrieving the contents of the Dynamic Playlist. See 

Automatically generate User Variables from Data Feed:

 Use the feed to populate a set of User Variables for HTML pages. See 

This section lets you store important information about the Dynamic Playlist state for future users. It can be modified at any time.

This section lets you add commands to your presentation to extend its functionality. See 

There are two main steps to using these widgets. The first step is to create the dynamic element in the content library so that it can be accessed in any presentation. The second step is to create a presentation and refer to those external elements through the playlist widget 

Enter a name for the new playlist and select 

 folder and pick the media that you want to add to your playlist.

Drag those media files into your sandbox and reorder them as needed. When you are done, select the save icon at the top right.

 panel and select the playlist you just created under 

. The presentation will now display this playlist.

Audio State

Dynamic Playlist State

This is our legacy cloud platform. Our latest cloud platform is BSN.Cloud which consists of the free bsn.Control and the paid bsn.Content tiers. Development of BSN has largely ceased and will eventually be deprecated and replaced with BSN.Cloud.

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 BrightAuthor:connected, our latest app.

BrightAuthor_Classic

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

BrightAuthorconnected

The BSN.Cloud record of a player and its Setup. The Default Setup is assigned to the player unless another Setup has been explicitly set.

Provision_Record

The process where a Setup is delivered and applied to a player by BSN.Cloud.

Provision

A set of files containing player settings (player name, description, time zone, Publishing Mode, network settings, etc.) and an autorun.brs file which instructs the player what to do upon bootup.

Setup

Event Handler State

User Guides

Languages

Network Status

BSN.Cloud Status

Dashboard and Menus

Undocking Panels

Tagging

Content

Event Properties

Zones

Commands & Conditional Targets

Presentation Settings

Tree View