Building a playlist — the Slides tab

Opening a playlist shows the editor. The header carries an Active / Paused toggle (switching to Paused asks you to confirm; it stops the playlist playing without deleting it), the playlist name (click to rename inline), an autosave indicator (changes save automatically — there are no save buttons here), and a Transitions button. Tabs: Slides, Schedule, Screens.

The slide sidebar

On the left: slide count and total duration, a playback-order sort toggle (Newest first ↔ Oldest first, remembered across reloads), and an add-slide button. Each slide is a card with its preview, order number, name, duration and a delete button. Slides drag to reorder — and you can drag content in from the Drive browser to a specific position in the running order.

Keyboard: Delete removes the selected slide/content/design; Esc deselects.

Adding slides

With no slide selected, the main panel is the content browser ("Add slides from your library", with a hint to double-click an item — or multi-select and click Add). Two tabs: Drive and Designs. New slides get a sensible default duration automatically: a video uses its own length, a table 120 seconds, a feed 15 seconds, other media 10 seconds.

The slide inspector

1. Slide Settings — Show for N seconds and Transition timing (Together cross-fades the slide as a whole, Separate animates parts independently), plus Remove Slide.
2. Drive (content) — Content per page (how many data rows render per slide instance; defaults to 2 for feeds), + Add media picker, live status badges (generating screenshot, optimizing video, error), and Remove.
3. Design (layout) — Auto-pick (Display Link chooses matching layouts; filter by orientation/aspect, then category, then style — style options follow the chosen category) or Choose manually (+ Add specific designs). A manually chosen layout that still needs its data shows a non-blocking note "This design has a required layer — make sure its data is mapped"; a dynamic layout with no content shows "This is a dynamic layout. Add content from your files first." Neither blocks the rest of the playlist.

Composition tip. "Content per page" plus auto-pick/manual is how a slide is composed: several data rows with content per page = 1 produce one rendered instance per row, and auto-pick rotates through the matching layouts. The editor shows exactly which layouts will be used before anything plays.