Display Manager and screens

Connect a screen to your event and display a welcome slide.

Before you start

You need a Premium plan, access to the Display Manager and a screen with a browser and internet. Changes to Canvas files in use appear immediately on displays.

Put a welcome on screen

1. Open Display Manager in the event and create an entrance zone. A zone groups screens showing the same content.
2. Choose New slides, match the format to your screen and design a welcome page in the Canvas editor.
3. Select this file for the zone using Choose default content….
4. On the screen, open /display on your FireVue domain.
5. In Display Manager, choose Pair screen, enter the six-digit code and assign the device to the entrance zone.

Check your result

The welcome slide should appear on the screen; the green dot indicates it is online. Check the device’s fit or fill setting if borders or cropping are unsuitable.

Design slides

1. In the Display Manager, click New slides and choose landscape or portrait.
2. Design the pages in the Canvas editor. Select a page to set or remove an optional Slide duration in seconds at the right of the toolbar. It controls displays and automatic slide changes in presentations. With no slide or element selected, use Slide transitions in the toolbar for the entire file: None, Fade (default), Slide up or Slide left.
3. Add videos through Uploads or the Videos tab (Pexels). Position and resize them on the canvas; use the toolbar to play, mute or loop them. Double-click to crop, then click outside to apply the crop.
4. Add live content in the Live content tab:
   • Calendar – slots or public calendar entries in a time grid; choose the number of days and visible hours, and the view follows the event time
   • Now & next – what is on now and what comes next
   • Countdown – to the event start, the next slot or a fixed time
   • Photo wall – the photos you picked in the Photo Pool slideshow
5. Screens always show the file as it is right now: every edit appears at once, there is nothing to publish.

Adding a video raises an existing shorter slide duration to the video length. Longer or unset durations stay unchanged. Without explicit timing, displays follow the video length and presentations advance manually. Videos are muted by default; MP4 (H.264) plays on every screen.

Control zones

Each zone shows:

• its default content (via Choose default content…) when nothing else is planned,
• planned content you set with Show content… (pick a canvas from Drive) or an automation – until further notice or for a set time,
• or content you switched by hand.

With Show now you bring an announcement, for example, to all or selected zones. It stays until you choose Back to plan – even if an automation switches in the meantime. Afterwards each zone shows its current plan again.

The preview in the Display Manager shows which slide each zone is playing right now. A green dot means the screen is online.

Videos autoplay silently in visible previews. They pause when scrolled out of view or when you switch tabs. Offscreen videos are not preloaded; static slide thumbnails continue to show only the first frame.

Project a presentation

In Presenter view, choose Project to select a display. It follows your manual and automatic slide changes. The display stays reserved for the presentation: zone changes, automations and Show now do not interrupt it.

Ending the presentation restores the zone’s current content. The Display Manager marks a projection with a screen icon containing a person. In the screen settings, choose End presentation and confirm to release it, including after the presenter disconnects. A projection does not expire automatically.

Switch with automations

Automations offer two steps for screens:

• Show on screens – shows a Canvas file on chosen zones, until further notice or for a few minutes.
• Screens back to default – returns zones to their default content.

Examples: switch to the evening slides on 13 March at 17:00, or show a countdown for ten minutes before every entry of a calendar. Screen steps act on the whole event, so they work with schedule and webhook triggers without an audience.

When the network drops

Screens keep the current playlist including images and videos. If the connection drops, the slides keep playing; live content shows the last data it loaded. As soon as the screen is back online, it picks up the current state on its own.