Slideshows

What Slideshows are

A slideshow is a set of slides you design and put on the venue display. Use them for drink specials, event promos, a wifi card, a menu, a happy-hour banner, or a welcome to the room, and drop one in between rounds so the screen always has something worth looking at. Each slide is a small canvas you lay out with text, images, shapes, and emoji.

You build slideshows in a full editor at your slideshows page, arrange the slides, and set how long each one holds and how it transitions. When it is ready, publish it and run it as an activity on your event nights.

Build a slideshow in the editor

The editor gives you a canvas and a toolbar. Add slides, then fill each one with text, headings, images, GIFs, emoji, and shapes. Move things around, layer them, align and distribute them, and set the background to a color, a gradient, or an uploaded image. Ready-made templates (promo, event, happy hour, wifi, menu) give you a fast starting point you can edit.

Slides show as numbered tabs, so you can jump between them, reorder them, and preview the whole run. Your work saves as you go, and you can duplicate a whole slideshow to spin up a variation without starting over.

1. Open your slideshows page and create a new slideshow.
2. Add a slide, or start from one of the built-in templates.
3. Place your text, images, and shapes on the canvas.
4. Set the background and pick a canvas shape (16:9 for most screens).
5. Add more slides and drag the tabs to put them in order.
6. Preview the run, then publish when it looks right.

Timing and transitions

Each slideshow has a default hold time and a default transition that every slide uses. New slideshows default to a ten second hold and a fade between slides. Any slide can override the default with its own hold time and transition, so a busy promo can linger while a simple banner flips by. Hold times run from one second up to five minutes.

Set the slideshow to loop so it repeats while it is on screen, or shuffle it so the order varies each time. Give each slide a label (like Happy Hour) to keep long slideshows easy to manage.

Put it on the wall

A slideshow plays on the venue display as an event activity. Add it to an event, then launch it from the cockpit on the night, and it takes over the screen, advancing on its own by each slide's hold time. It is also the natural choice for break mode and for filler between rounds.

A slideshow has to be published to play on the display. While it is a draft it stays in your editor for you to finish, and it goes live on the screen only once you publish it.

1. Publish the slideshow from the editor.
2. Add it as a slideshow activity on the event you are running.
3. Launch it from the cockpit, or use it for break mode, when you want it on screen.

Keep them organized

As your library grows, sort slideshows into folders (for example, Promos and Seasonal) so the ones you need are easy to find on a busy night. Duplicate a proven slideshow and tweak the copy for a new event instead of building from scratch.

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