Design your lobby-TV display

The display is the screen in your lobby that shows who's being served. You start from a ready-made layout, then tune it on a canvas that's the real display — what you see is exactly what the TV shows.

Open Displays to see a gallery of ready-made layouts — Call display, Now and next, Serving points, Waiting list, Join from your phone, a Journey display, and more.

• Two buttons at the top switch between Wide device and Tall device layouts, for a TV mounted the normal way round or upright.
• Pick one close to what you want and you'll have a working display in three or four taps.

A card marked "a few choices" asks a short question before it opens, so the display it builds is the right shape first time.

• “How many counters, rooms or chairs serve this line?” (and one column or two) — starts on the number you already have set up.
• “How many different services share this display?”
• For the video layout: “Where should the video sit, and how many lines go beside it?”

Your display can take turns showing several pages. In the Pages area of the inspector, switch on Rotate through pages, then set how long each page shows (a whole number of seconds from 2 to 120; a new page starts at 8). With the switch off, or only one page, the display simply stays on the page you see. This is about pages taking turns — it has nothing to do with turning a sideways TV, which is the Rotation setting on the screen itself.

Keep clear of the edges is also set per screen, not in the editor: open the screen's settings on Devices. It is 2.5% unless changed, and exists for older TVs that crop the picture's edge.

Four buttons — Salon, Clinic, Workshop and Café or takeaway — fill in the wording, the colours and what the left-hand column is called, all at once.

A display is built either wide or tall, and it's told which by "Which way is the device?" on the Whole display tab.

Every wide layout has a tall twin with a matching name — most end in “, tall”: Call display, tall; Serving points, tall; Waiting list, tall; Full picture, tall; Number and notice, tall; Join from your phone, tall; Ready for collection, tall; How busy are we, tall; Journey display, tall. A few have their own names instead: Number over list (for Now and next), Two services stacked (for Side by side), Video on top (for Line and video) and Show only (the same name in both shapes). Number, list and ticker is a tall layout with no wide twin. On the Whole display tab, a display that started from a layout made for the other way round says “This display started from a layout made for the other way round, so its panels are stacked to fit.” with a button, Use the … layout.

On a very wide screen — the long, letterbox-shaped ones, wider than an ordinary widescreen TV — the lobby TV keeps its normal shape in the middle.

The two strips left over at the sides are filled with your brand colour and your logo (or your business name, if you haven't uploaded one) instead of being left black.

There's nothing to switch on — it happens on the real screen only, so the editor's preview still shows the plain display.

Press Save display and you're prompted to send it to a screen from Devices.