Publish your first message
When your displays are setup and registered, you basically need two things to publish your first message in Smartsign: A Smartsign account with access to the Smartsign site where your displays are registered, and content to publish. We suggest you start with something simple like an image, PowerPoint, PDF-document or similar.
1. Sign in
Are you using an official Smartsign cloud service?
Sign in at eu.smartsigncloud.com or au.smartsigncloud.com, depending on where your
players are set up. If you don’t have a Smartsign account, just click
sign up to create one.
Are you using a Local server or a custom cloud service?
Contact your IT departement or support@smartsign.se if you need assistance to sign
in to your server/service.
All Smartsign screens belong to a site, if you don't have access to the site with the screen you want to publish to, you need to be [invited by a administrator](/Publisher Guide/Overview/Manage_Join_Org_Publisher.md) of that site.
2. Create a new booking
Select Publish › Publish on screens in the top menu to access the Screen bookings view.
The Screen bookings view gives you an overview of the content on your screens.
You can view screen bookings in different ways, but let's keep it in calendar view for now, and click New booking.
New booking – Content to screens in four steps
Step 1 - Choose screens
Select one or more screens that you want to publish on, and click Next.
Step 2 - Playlist
Your new booking will create a playlist where you can add different
content, from different sources. We suggest you pick “upload files” and
pick a file from your computer (image, PDF, PowerPoint or some other
supported file format.) The file will appear in the playlist, you can
upload more files, rearrange the order, adjust duration etc. When you
are done, click Next to continue.
Step 3 - Schedule
The Schedule will control when this playlist should show on the screen.
For your first try, make sure the scheduled time includes the current
time so that you can see the result right away. If you are happy with
the default settings, click next.
Step 4 - Finish, Booking information
Give the booking a suitable name so it's easy to find. A helpful
description is usually a good idea as well. Leave the rest for now, and
click Finish.
When your new booking is finished, it should appear on your screen shortly.
To see a preview of your screen, go to My devices, select your screen
and click preview in the bottom bar.
(Keep in mind, the preview shows what is currently scheduled on the
screen, if there are bookings scheduled between 8:00am and 5:00pm, and
you preview the screen at 6:00pm, nothing will show since nothing is
scheduled at the time.)