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Publishing Presentations
After creating a presentation, you can publish the content to your BrightSign player using one of four methods: Local
Storage, Local Networking, Simple File Networking, or the BrightSign Network. This guide will teach you how to publish
your presentations to an SD card and update your BrightSign player manually via local storage. For details on the other
publishing methods, please see the
BrightAuthor User Guide
.
Note
:
You must format your SD storage using FAT32
for the player to receive network updates and generate logs. You
should only format the storage using NTFS if you need to play media files that are 4GB or larger in size.
To publish a presentation to an SD card:
1. Insert an SD card into your computer’s card reader.
2. Click the
Publish
tab in the upper-left side of the BrightAuthor screen.
3. Select the
Local Storage
option(below the
Publish
tab).
4. In the
Presentations
section, click
Browse
, select the folder where the presentation is saved, and then click
OK
.
5. Select the presentation you wish to publish from the list of presentations.
6. Drag the presentation into the calendar to set a time when the presentation will play. You can expand or contract
the time range by clicking, holding, and moving the lower border of the colored field. Double-click the presentation
in the calendar to further customize the play schedule:
•
(default) The presentation plays during a limited time range on a single, specific day. Customize the range
by changing the
Start
and
End
times in the
Event time
field.
•
Active all day, every day
: Check this box to have the presentation play continuously without interruptions
or end times/dates.
•
Recurring Event
: Check this box to have the presentation play for a limited time during a recurring pattern
of days. You can further customize whether you want the presentation to play daily, every weekday, every
weekend, or during certain days of the week. Use the
Range of recurrence
field to choose what dates the
recurring event will begin and end.
