Schedule individual Placeholders within a Presentation

This article describes how to use a Timeline to schedule an individual item within a placeholder, and how a Timeline works when implemented with a second Presentation in a Schedule.

Let’s pretend we have a restaurant. On Monday - Friday we have a Presentation that is designed to appeal to the business crowd with Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner menus. On the weekend, we change to a Presentation that is designed for families and couples that want to have Lunch or Dinner. We can display all five of these menus using only two presentations!

First, we’ll create the Presentation for Monday - Friday. Within the Presentation, we have one placeholder. In that placeholder we have 3 Image Widgets that display menus. From 7am-10am we show a breakfast menu, from 10am-3pm we show a lunch menu, from 3pm-10pm we show a dinner menu.

We’ll schedule the Breakfast Menu first. Select the placeholder that contains your menus. Edit the Timeline by clicking its Duration.


Next to Timeline, uncheck “Always”. A Timeline for this item will now appear, click the Timeline to edit it. I’ve set this Timeline for the Breakfast Menu to appear every M-F, 7AM to 10AM.


Once I click Apply, this Image Widget is set to a Timeline! We’ll repeat the same steps for Lunch and Dinner in the same Presentation, scheduling them accordingly.

Now we create our Weekend Presentation. We repeat the process above for our Timeline in this Presentation.

We want to put both of these Presentations into a Schedule. Go to schedules.risevision.com, and click “Add Schedule”.

In the Add Schedule menu, you’ll add your Schedule name, leave Timeline set to Always, and select the Display(s) that you want your menu Presentations to appear on. Click “Add Playlist Item”, select “Presentation” from the dropdown menu, and select the first Presentation you want to display.


Once you’ve added your Presentation, you’ll be presented with Edit Playlist Item. Here we’ll uncheck Always next to Timeline, and we’ll set the days of the week that we want this menu to appear. This is our weekday menu, so I’ve selected All Day Monday - Friday.


I repeat these same steps to add the Saturday - Sunday Presentation, setting it’s Timeline to All Day Saturday - Sunday.

We now have a Schedule that alternates 5 separate menus in only two presentations!