Touch screens and interactive kiosks

On a touch screen, any text, shape, photo or sticker in a design can be a button. While someone is using the screen, the playlist waits; it carries on after they stop.

#The quickest start: the Touch kiosk

Go to Content → Create a design and choose Touch kiosk. It makes four linked designs: a welcome page and three pages its buttons open. Change the words and photos, then put the welcome page in your screen's playlist and publish.

#Make your own buttons

1. In the designer, select the item you want people to tap.
2. Under When someone taps it, choose what happens:

   • Open another design — for menus, directories or "more info" pages. New blank page makes and links a new design in one step.
   • Go to the next slide or Go to the previous slide in the playlist.
   • Go back to the playlist.
   • Open a web page — full screen, with a Close button. Use a full address starting with https://. Some sites refuse to open inside other pages.
3. On a page people reach by tapping, set Go back after (5 to 300 seconds). When nobody has touched the screen for that long, it returns to the playlist.

Buttons work with a mouse too, so you can try them in the screen preview on the screen's page before anyone touches the real thing.

#Hardware

Any touch screen that works with your player will do: a touch monitor on a Windows mini PC is the most common setup. Mount it at a comfortable height and make buttons big enough for a finger (at least the size of a large coin on the screen).