3.04 - Layout Customization

  • Go to playlists page
  • Click on a playlist to open the layout view
  • A layout is devided into layers
  • In the below example, this layout has 2 layers: 1920x960 layer and 1920x120 layer

Edit Layout

  • To customize your layout, click on Edit Layout

Layout Editor

Add Layer

  • To add more layers to your layout, Click on Add Layer
  • A maximum of 6 layers is allowed in each layout. The layers can be placed on top of each other and support transparency in the content

Add Layer

  • These are all the preset layer sizes that can be added to the layout, click on one to add it
  • Click on one to add it

Position

Position

  • Click on an layer to select it or click on it in the list on the right

  • Drag and Drop a layer to change its position in the layout, or, change X and Y values at the top

  • Use the alignment buttons to align the layer to one of the following positions:

    • center vertically
    • center horizontally
    • align left
    • align right
    • align top
    • align bottom
  • Snap to Grid: if checked, instead of freely moving the layer pixel by pixel, it will move by 45 pixels horizontally and vertically

Width and Height

Resize

  • To resize a layer, drag and drop the resize controls
  • Or provide a value in the width and height fields

Important: when resizing you will get a warning about the content types you can use, not all media content can be used in custom sized layers:

Resize Warning

Resizing a Layer will limit the media that can be added to images, videos and websites (web url), unsupported media types will be removed.

Click yes if you would like to proceed.


Layer Order: to change the Z order of a layer:

  • drag and drop it up in the list to bring to front
  • drag and drop it down in the list to send to back

Layer List

  • Delete: Click on the delete button in the layers list and click yes to confirm deleting

All the content of the deleted layer will be removed.


Click Back to return the layout preview.