Quick Start Guide
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Publishing Presentations
After creating a presentation, you can publish the content to your BrightSign player using one of four methods: Local
Storage, Local Networking, Simple File Networking, or the BrightSign Network. This guide will teach you how to publish
your presentations to an SD card and update your BrightSign player manually. For details on the other publishing
methods, see the BrightAuthor User Guide.
Note: You must format your SD storage using FAT32 for the player to receive network updates and generate logs. You
should only format the storage using NTFS if you need to play media files that are 4GB or larger in size.
To publish a presentation to an SD card:
1. Insert an SD card into your computer’s card reader.
2. Click the Publish tab in the upper-left side of the BrightAuthor screen.
3. Click Local Storage (below the Publish tab).
4. Under Presentations, click Browse, select the folder where your presentation is saved, and then click OK.
5. Select the presentation you want to publish from the list of presentations.
6. Drag the presentation into the calendar to set a time when the presentation will play. You can expand or contract
the time range by clicking, holding, and moving the lower border of the colored field. Double-click the presentation
in the calendar to further customize the playing time. You have the following options when scheduling a
presentation:
• (default) The presentation plays during a limited time range on a single, specific day. Customize the range
by changing the Start and End times in the Event time field.
• The presentation plays continuously without interruptions or an end time. Select this option by checking the
Active all day, every day box.
• The presentation plays for a limited time during a recurring pattern of days. Select this option by checking
the Recurring Event box. You can further customize whether you want the presentation to play daily, every
weekday, every weekend, or during certain days of the week. Use the Range of recurrence field to choose
what dates the recurring event will begin and end.