Assign your project

How assigning your project works

As soon as you have created your project, you will want to show it on your Kaptive Players. This step is called assigning.

Click the Assign button on the top right in the Kaptive Editor. The dialog Where should this project run? gathers every place your project can run, one card per destination:

• Default project on players: the project players show when nothing else is scheduled.
• Playlists: the playlists that contain the project.
• Schedule: the time slots in which the project plays.
• Public link: a link anyone can open to view the project.

Note

Some cards depend on your licence and your role. For example, Playlists and Schedule only appear when your licence includes these features.

Set the default project on players

The default project plays on a player whenever nothing else is scheduled.

1. In the Assign dialog, click Default project on players.
2. Select the players. You can search by name or filter by tag.
3. Click Save.

Saving publishes your project and starts it on the selected players right away. You can assign the same project to multiple players. To remove the project from all players, deselect every player and click Unassign all.

Tip

When every page of the project has a duration and nothing is interactive, players showing the same project play it in sync automatically.

Add the project to playlists

1. In the Assign dialog, click Playlists.
2. Select the playlists the project should belong to. The project is added at the end of each playlist.
3. Click Save.

Saving publishes your project and the changed playlists. If your role can’t publish the schedule, the playlists are saved as drafts until someone with the right role publishes them.

Note

Every page needs a duration before a project can join a playlist. If some pages have none, the dialog shows Some pages have no duration and you can only remove the project from playlists.

Read more in Create a playlist.

Open the project in the schedule

On the Schedule card, click Open. The schedule opens filtered to this project, so you can see and edit its time slots. Read more in Schedule your project.

Share a public link

Turn on Public link to let anyone with the link view the project. Use Copy link or Copy embed code to share it or embed it in a website. Read more in Share and embed projects.

Publish updates of your project

Sometimes you will want to update your project after you have assigned it. For example, you might want to change some content or fix a typo. Click the orange Publish button right next to the Assign button in the Kaptive Editor. This publishes the latest version of your project to all players that show it, whether as default project, in a playlist or through the schedule.