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Simple File Networking allows you to distribute presentations to your BrightSign players using a web server. To use this publishing method, players must be set up for Simple File Networking with the correct URL for web folder.

  1. In BrightAuthor, save the presentation(s) you want to publish by clicking File > Save… As
  2. Click the Publish tab.
  3. Select the Simple File Network option(above the Calendar).
  4. Choose whether you want to publish Presentations or BrightWall Presentations.
  5. Under Presentations, click Browse to navigate to and select the folder where your presentations are stored.

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Alternatively, you can schedule a presentation by double-clicking a blank area on the schedule to open the Schedule Presentation window.

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If you want the presentation to be a recurring event, double-click the presentation timeframe in the calendar. In the Schedule Presentation window, set the following parameters:

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You can create a day-parted schedule by scheduling presentations in separate time slots of a single day (or a set of recurring days). Later on, you may need to schedule a new presentation in an occupied time slot. This is where schedule interrupts are useful.

f If you would like to interrupta scheduled presentation with another presentation, drag and drop the new presentation into an occupied time slot (you can also schedule an overlap in the Schedule Presentation window). A Schedule Conflict window will appear, providing the following options:

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  • Enable serial debugging: The autorun script will output debugging information related to the presentation to theserial the serial port (as well as over Telnet and SSH if these features are enabled).
  • Enable system log debugging: The autorun script will output debugging information related to the presentation to the Log tab in the Diagnostic Web Server.

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  • Production Release: The current official release of BrightSign firmware
  • Beta Release: The current beta release of BrightSign firmware
  • Minimum Compatible Release: The minimum firmware version that supports presentations created by your version of BrightAuthor. The minimum compatible firmware will likely not support all features provided by a contemporary version of BrightAuthor.
  • Select specific file: Use the Browse button to select a .bsfw firmware update file from your hard drive. The other options will download the update file from BrightSign when the presentation schedule is published.

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You can use the Update type dropdown menu to determine the behavior of the firmware update:

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Click Publish. When the Publish Complete window opens, click OK.