What Are Labels in Skykit Beam and How Do They Work?

Overview

Labels give you the ability to assign custom labels or "tags" to your displays and playlist entries, allowing you to organize displays in groups and publish content to one or more displays at a time.

Let's say you have displays placed throughout your office in different departments, such as Marketing, Research and Development, and Human Resources. You want to be able to quickly publish information to all the displays located in a specific department without having to manually publish content to each display individually.

In Beam, you can create a label called Marketing and assign that label to all of the displays located in the Marketing department. You can then assign the Marketing label to all playlist entries that show marketing-related information for your company. Now those playlist entries will only play on the displays that have the Marketing label.

How Labels Work in Playlists and Collections

Labels can be assigned to Playlist and Collection entries using Play Rules and assigned to Displays in Beam or Control. Both Displays and Playlist and Collection entries can have multiple Labels assigned to them. 

Collection Play Rules

Playlist Play Rules

Assigning Labels to Displays in Beam

Assigning Labels to Displays in Control

Labels work as filters for what content will play on a Display. 

Display Behavior for Entries with Labels

If any entry has at least one Label assigned to it, that entry will play on:

• Displays with at least one matching Label
• Displays with no Labels assigned

Display Behavior for Entries with No Labels

If any entry has no Labels assigned to it, it will play on all Displays, regardless of Labels. 

Next Steps

Now that you've learned about labels in Beam and how to best organize your displays using labels, learn how to create labels in Beam.