What is a Collection?

A collection allows you to curate multiple playlists, programs, and content items and play them one after another—a playlist within a playlist, so to speak. Collections give you even greater flexibility in the way you create and display your content.

Let's say you have two playlists, two programs, and a video that you want to play in succession. You can add all of these items as entries in a collection, arrange the order of the entries, set play rules for the entries, and then play the collection on your displays without having to change the content manually. 

You can add and delete entries as your needs change. If you update a collection entry, simply re-publish it and the entry will be updated automatically in the collection.

If a content item, playlist, or program that is included in a collection is deleted, a warning icon appears next to that entry in the Collections detail window.

See Creating a Collection in Skykit Beam and Managing a Collection in Skykit Beam to learn more.