Story Preview lets you click through your story in the browser before it plays on screen, so you can check timing, sound and interactions without booking the room.
Open Preview
Click Preview at the top right of the Composer to start at the scene you're working on. Use the arrow next to it to choose Start from this scene or Start from beginning.
The Preview screen
Top bar: a back button, the story name and publish status, the setup you're previewing (the Base Setup is marked as such), zoom, and buttons to hide the sidebar or the browser interface.
Sidebar:
Screens: select a screen, show or hide it, or fit the view to one screen or all of them.
Scenes: click a scene, or use the arrow keys, to switch.
Assets: turn assets on and off, as a presenter would in TSS Control. Icons show which assets autoplay or loop.
What plays in Preview
Images, GIFs, text, audio, video and background video, at the volume you set for each asset
Transitions, with a progress bar across the scene while they run
On-click actions: click an asset to try its action
Auto Switch, including looping from the last scene back to the first
Screen Overlay and Screen Backdrop content, which moves along with each scene transition
The screensaver: click the moon icon next to a screen to switch it on or off
What Preview can't show
PDFs, PowerPoint files and web pages show a placeholder instead. They play normally on your setup.
Video and sound on a Screen Overlay or Screen Backdrop only play when Autoplay is on, and start again at every scene change. On screen, they keep playing across scenes.
After a screensaver, Preview always returns to the first scene, even when Resume story after screensaver is on.
Text in Preview
If a font can't display a character, Preview shows an empty box, exactly as TSS Play will. Replace the character or pick another font before you publish.
Large videos
Large videos can take a moment to load. If one struggles, a notification tells you so. That doesn't mean it won't play on your setup.