What is a playlist?¶
A playlist shows dashboards and goal lists one after another, like slides. Page through it yourself in a meeting, or leave it rotating on a screen on the wall.
What it represents¶
A playlist is an order, and nothing more. It holds no numbers and no cards of its own: each slide is a dashboard or a goal list that already exists, shown live. Change a dashboard and the playlist shows the change. Rename one and the playlist follows it. Delete one and it leaves the playlist.
It's the last layer of the stack: metrics become cards, cards become dashboards, and a playlist decides what a room sees and for how long.
How it's set up¶
Dashboards → Playlists → New playlist:
- Name it.
- Under Playing, set the defaults for the show: the seconds on each slide, whether it loops and whether it plays when opened.
- Under Slides, in order, pick a dashboard or a goal list and choose Add. Repeat for each one. Reorder with ↑ and ↓.
- Each slide says Default while it uses the show's seconds. Click it to give that slide its own time; ↺ puts it back. A slide can also be pinned to its own period (say, last 7 days) for this playlist only.
- For a goal list, choose what the slide shows: Goals now, Last week (the week just ended, as it was saved) or Week over week.
How to use it¶
In a meeting. Open the playlist and step through it. The bar at the top has previous, play or pause and next, with one step per slide; click a step to jump to it.
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| → or Page Down | Next slide |
| ← or Page Up | Previous slide |
| Space or K | Play or pause |
| Home, End | First, last slide |
| F | Full screen |
On a wall screen. Wall screen on a playlist's page opens it with the site's menus hidden and already playing. That address is the one to put on a TV.
As a link. The address follows along as it plays, so a copied link opens
on the same slide. You can also add ?slide=3 to open on the third slide, or
?seconds=20 to change the timing for one viewing.
Good to know¶
- It pauses when you need it to. Clicking into a card to read its rows pauses the playlist, and so does switching to another browser tab.
- Everyone sees only what they may open. A slide the viewer can't open is skipped, not shown blank. The playlists list says when some of a playlist's slides are hidden from you.
- Personal or shared. A personal playlist can hold your own dashboards and goal lists and shared ones. A shared playlist holds only shared ones.
- A weekly meeting in one playlist: the team dashboard first, then the goal list as Goals now, Last week and Week over week.