Making an event take over the whole screen

Your screens can give a single event the entire display, photo and all. It is the strongest thing they can do to draw attention to something, and there are only two conditions.

The two conditions

1. The event has a photo. No photo, no takeover. The takeover is mostly the photograph, so without one there is nothing to show.
2. It starts within the next seven days. Something a month away stays in the middle panel.

Both apply to the next event coming up, not to any event in your list. If your next event has no photo, the screen will not skip past it to find one that does. It simply carries on with the normal rotation until that event has started.

How often it happens

Events take turns with the other content. The first time an event comes round it appears in the middle column. The next time, if it meets the two conditions above, it takes the whole screen. Then it goes back to the middle column, and so on.

What it looks like

The photo fills the screen. The event's date sits in the top corner, when it starts and its clock time run across the middle, then the title, where it is, and the code to scan. The rest of the screen dims behind it.

When it will not happen

• The event has no photo, or the photo fails to load.
• It starts more than seven days from now.
• It has already started.
• An emergency notice is on the screen. An emergency always wins, and nothing else displays until it is cleared.

Getting the best result

Use a landscape photograph with room in it. The title and time sit across the middle of the image, so a photo with a busy centre makes them harder to read from across a lobby. Something with sky, water, a wall or an open floor in the middle works best.

See also How your events reach the lobby screens.