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Using one story in multiple setups

Reuse one story in several rooms with the same number of screens.

Not on Release 5 yet? Until your organisation moves over, use Adding multiple setups to a story (before Release 5).

Reuse one story in several rooms, for example identical immersive rooms in Amsterdam, Brussels and New York. A story works in any setup that has the same number of screens.

Base Setup and Other Setups

  • Setup: a physical screen configuration, such as an immersive room or a video wall.

  • Base Setup: the setup where you create and edit the content.

  • Other Setups: the extra setups the story also runs in. Changes you make in the Base Setup are applied to the Other Setups.

Add a setup to a story

  1. In the Composer, click the setup switcher at the bottom left of the canvas.

  2. Click Add Setup. The Add Setup(s) window shows the Base Setup and the Other Setups.

  3. Under Add Other Setup(s), pick one or more setups. Only setups with the same number of screens that aren't on the story yet are listed.

  4. Click Save.

You can't add setups from the Stories page.

Switch between setups

Click the setup switcher and pick a setup; setups are grouped by location and area. The Base Setup is marked "(Base Setup)".

What you can change in Other Setups

In an Other Setup, you can move and resize assets and backgrounds to fit that room. Everything else, such as content, text and media settings, comes from the Base Setup. Adding scenes, Scene options and most shortcuts only work in the Base Setup; undo, redo, nudging with the arrow keys and locking work in every setup.

Once you move an asset in an Other Setup, it no longer follows position changes made in the Base Setup.

Check a setup in Preview

Story Preview shows the name of the setup you're previewing, so you always know which room you're looking at.

Different screen ratios

For setups with a different screen ratio, see Scaling strategies for how content is fitted.

Remove a setup

Click the setup switcher and choose Delete Setup. If you remove one by mistake, add it again; you may need to adjust some content.

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