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Create, configure, and maintain app contents

The weather of a branch or a news app should be set up once and then used everywhere.

4 min readUpdated Oct 30, 2026As Markdown
For
anyone who provides weather, news, calendars, clocks, and other apps as ready-made contents
Prerequisite
an installed app and the permissions Create app contents, Edit app contents, and Delete app contents for the task at hand. Owners and Managers have them by default. Without List app contents, the library shows no app contents.
Where in the portal
Library › New › App content · Library › App contents
On this page

An app content is an app you set up once, such as “Weather Altona branch”, and then use wherever it should run. You change it in one place, and the change applies everywhere.

Steps

Create an app content

  1. Open the Library. If the content should live in a folder, choose the folder first.
  2. Click New and choose App content. The dialog What would you like to show? opens. It has three steps: Choose, Set up, and Show on displays.
  3. Choose the app: search under Apps and connections or pick a category on the left, click a tile, then Next: Set up. If the app is missing, use More apps in the app store.
  4. Set up the content. The window is the same as in the scene editor, and the preview shows every change, see Configure widgets: template, preview, and fields. Click Next: Show on displays.
  5. Enter a Name of up to 120 characters. A name that says the purpose is best, such as “Weather Altona branch”.
  6. Under Where should the content go?, choose Keep it in the library or At the end of a playlist. For the playlist, pick the Playlist below. Only manual playlists are offered, and only if you may list and edit playlists.
  7. Click Create. Nothing exists before that.

Configure an app content

  1. Click the card, or choose Settings in its menu (the ⋮ icon).
  2. The window header names the content and where it runs, such as “App content · Weather 3.0 · used in 3 scenes and 1 playlist”. The preview can show other shapes: Landscape, Portrait, Bar, and Tile.
  3. Change what you need. The footer reminds you: Changes apply wherever this content runs.
  4. Click Apply. The portal says Saved, wherever the content runs. Cancel discards your changes.

Rename, copy, and delete

Open the menu of the card. Rename changes the name. Make a copy creates “Weather Altona branch (copy)” with the same settings. The copy runs nowhere yet and is independent from then on. Delete removes the content for good. There is no trash for app contents, so make a copy first if you want to keep a state.

Where an app content runs

In a playlist, an app content plays full screen on the display, in the colors of your brand. Add it in the library panel of the playlist, in the tab App content, or choose At the end of a playlist when you create it. If a zone of a scene plays that playlist, the app content fills the zone. Changes reach the displays without publishing the scenes again.

The card and the window header count where the content runs: scenes, playlists, and programs. A content in the brand colors follows the brand by itself, see Brand: logo, colors, and fonts.

Needs attention

If an app content no longer works as it should, its card shows a warning instead of the usage, and the sidebar lists it under Needs attention.

Warning on the card Meaning What to do
App not installed The app was uninstalled. The display skips the content. Install the app again. The content then plays on its own.
Widget not available The app no longer knows this widget. Create a new app content from the current widgets of the app.

Check the result

The content appears as a card labeled App content in the Library, under Everything and App contents. The card names the app and the usage: “not used” for a new content, “in 1 playlist” for one in a playlist.

If something goes wrong

Symptom Cause Solution
App content is missing in the menu New You lack the permission Create app contents. Ask an Owner or Manager, see Permissions by role.
No matching app. appears in the first step The search or category matches no installed app. Clear the search, choose Installed, or install an app through More apps in the app store.
At the end of a playlist is missing in the last step You may not list and edit playlists, or there is no manual playlist yet. Keep the content in the library and add it to a playlist later.
Someone changed the content in the meantime. Please open it again. A second person saved the content while your window was open. Close the window, open the content again, and repeat your change.
4 min readUpdated Oct 30, 2026As Markdown

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