In the “Documents” section, you can upload and manage any Document files you want to play on your Players.
Supported Formats
Yodeck supports PDF, Word, Excel, and PPT file types. Documents are not resized automatically; they are delivered and played back exactly as you have uploaded them.
Adding a Document
To add a single document, you click on the ”Add Document” button found at the bottom of the list.
Select the file type of your choice and upload one or more Document files from your computer to Yodeck, or use the Import from URL option to import any Document file hosted in the cloud.
You can hold [Ctrl] or [Shift] to select multiple files at once.
As a next step, you are requested to provide:
Type in the Name of the document
An optional Description
Add tags to the uploaded document
Set the Default Duration of the document if you decide to add it to a playlist
In the Advanced Features, you can set the Availability.
Enabling this option lets you set media Availability. In other words, you can select a future and an expiration date, which means you can pick the exact date and time this media will be available to play on your screens. For more details, please check the Media Availability guide.
The default Duration: each slide/page is set to 10 seconds. However, you can change this for ALL pages included in the document.
Any Page Exceptions: when you want specific slides/pages of the file skipped or to have a different duration, use the “Set duration for a specific Page” button and specify the page number and the desired duration. In case you want to skip a page completely, simply set its duration to “0”.
Click Save to finally upload the document
Adding a Document with the Drag and Drop option
You can add a document by dragging the specific file(s) from your PC directly into your Documents Library, skipping a few steps and saving you some extra time. The Drag and Drop option is also available in the Folder View.
Managing Document Files
In the Documents section, you can see a list of the PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files currently uploaded into your Yodeck account. Information about your document files is organized in the following columns:
The name of the document, along with a Preview (thumbnail) of the actual image
the Timestamp (date and time) that the document was modified for the last time
the Workspace (for accounts in the Enterprise plan) that which the document belongs
The tags (for accounts in the Pro and Enterprise plans) that are applied to the file
the Actions column
If you click on the three dots icon in the Actions column, you will be presented with a list of actions that you can apply to your uploaded document files.
Click on each tab below to see a short description.
Change the details of a document by clicking the ”Edit” button.
Here, you can also substitute the actual document, and it will be changed wherever used.
Check out the “Adding a Document” section above for details on the fields.
Create an exact copy of the document file with a new name.
You can move documents to folders and/or other Workspaces (for accounts in the Enterprise plan).
Delete the document file.
Additional Control Settings
At the top-left corner, you can use the Search box to quickly sort out your document listing. You can search using any of the four columns, which means by name, date, workspace, or tag.
You can select one or more documents by clicking the square box left to their thumbnail. You can then click the Actions button at the bottom to Edit, Move, or Delete all the selected documents at once.
In the top-right corner, click the "+Add Folder" button to create a folder to group media files (the folder will be global across Images, Videos, Audio, Documents, Web Pages, and Widgets).
You can also change the listing and refresh the view.
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