Copy and Paste slides

Unfortunately, I don’t know of a way to copy slides directly within channels, and playout properties are stored at the channel level.

You could play with the playout properties. It may take some fussing, but you could get there depending on the slide duration and the total amount of slides.

For example, if all your content is on screen for 30 seconds, you could set the persistent slide to be displayed “1 time every minute”.
The slides should cycle back and forth between your rotating, and the persistent slides.

Most people’s brains don’t work like this, and it would be nice if AppSpace actually displayed what the final playlist would look like with the adjusted playout properties.

Thank you. We run a new meetings slide every day and we like to run those every other slide. I would love to see AppSpace make it possible to copy and paste a slide. That would make me so very happy. :)

​@Laurie Held I understand the frustration—manually setting parameters for every single slide is a massive time-sink.
The reason you can't simply copy and paste within the channel is that the Library is the "source of truth." The channel is just a display window; if you could copy a slide within it, the system wouldn't know which "master" file to update if you made a change later.

Here are a few "bulk" features that can handle your Monday–Friday rotation much faster.
1. Batch-Edit via the "Add Content" Screen
When you are in the Edit tab of your channel and click +Add, don't just pick one slide.
• Select multiple items in the Library.
• Once selected, click Edit Scheduling and Display Properties at the bottom right before you select Save.
• You can then set the Duration, Schedule dates, and Dayparting (e.g., set them all to only show on Mondays) for that entire group at once.

2. The "Folder" Hack (Best for Weekly Repetition)
This is the "pro" way to handle your specific request:
• In your Library, create a folder named "Monday Loop."
• Put your Monday Meetings, Weather, and Social Media slides inside it.
• In your Channel, add the entire folder instead of individual slides.
• The Magic Part: You can set the scheduling/parameters for the entire folder. Appspace will treat the folder as a sub-playlist. This way, you only set the "Monday" rule once for the folder, rather than for 15 individual slides.

3. Interleave Playback

• If you want your "Meeting" slide to appear "every other slide," look for the "Interleave" setting in the Playlist properties. If you have a main loop of general content, you can set your Meeting slide to "interleave" so it automatically injects itself between other items without you having to manually place it there five times.

Interleave may be your best option but let us know what you think if you test these out.   

Hi ​@Laurie Held,

That is a great use case! I completely agree with ​@Dawn Wayland’s suggestions, but I wanted to provide a "pro-tip" to help you achieve that "every other slide" look without the manual heavy lifting.

To get your daily meeting slides to inject themselves perfectly between your other content, I recommend combining Dayparting with Interleave Playback.

The Approach:

1. Organize Your Playlists Instead of one long list, think of your content in two groups:

• Playlist A: Monday meetings, Tuesday meetings, Wednesday meetings, etc.

• Playlist B: Weather, social media, board meetings, etc.

2. Configure Dayparting On each slide in Playlist A, set the Dayparting parameters so the Monday slide only plays on Mondays, Tuesday only on Tuesdays, and so on. This ensures only the relevant meeting slide is "active" at any given time.

3. Add the Interleave Device Property To make the slides from Playlist A automatically "inject" themselves between the items in Playlist B, you will need to add a Device Property. This tells the Media Player exactly how to handle the playback logic.

In the Device Settings, add the following property:

• Property: custom.playlist.interleave

• Value: {"option": 1, "contentCount": 1}

The Result:

This setup automates the "copy and paste" work for you. On Monday, your screen will automatically show: Monday meetings, weather, Monday meetings, social media, Monday meetings, board meeting. On Tuesday, it will swap to the Tuesday meetings without you having to move a single slide.

The Dayparting ensures only the correct day's meeting is pulled, while the Device Property handles the repetitive insertion for you!

​@Dawn Wayland 

Is the interleave option only for situations where multiple playlists are autoplaying on devices? Or is there a way to configure something within a single channel?

Hi ​@lordtrackball

Great question! For Playlist Channels: Interleave works when you have multiple playlist channels published to the same device - it controls how content alternates between those different playlists.

For Advanced Channels: Interleave works when you have multiple playlist schedules within the same channel - it makes content alternate between those different schedules instead of playing all items from one schedule first.

Within a single playlist or single schedule, there isn't an interleave option because there's nothing to interleave with. However, you could achieve similar effects by:

• Using frequency restrictions in playout properties to control how often specific content appears
• Setting up multiple schedules within an Advanced Channel and then using interleave
• Creating separate playlists and publishing them together to a device

So interleave is always about alternating between multiple content sources, not rearranging content within a single source.

Thank you all for the great suggestions. I am new to this software and am learning. I will definitely try these suggestions and let you know how it goes.