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Paginated slide page

A paginated slide is a data-bound slide that the playlist repeats once for every row — or group of rows — in its datasource, turning a single slide into a sequence of pages. Introduced in version 2.1.

When you add a slide or a slide-based template to a playlist, a Choose how to add this slide modal lets you pick how it should behave:

Choose how to add this slide modal with Slide and Paginated slide options

  • Slide — adds it as a single Slide type page.
  • Paginated slide — adds it as a paginated slide page that iterates through the bound datasource.

The same modal appears for slide-based templates. A paginated slide page is marked with a stacked-pages icon on its playlist card.

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The Paginated slide option is available only for slides that have Data binding with pagination enabled in the Slide Designer. Set that up first (see below) — a slide without it can only be added as a regular Slide page.

Setting up the slide​

Pagination is configured on the slide itself in the Slide Designer, not on the playlist page.

1. Bind a base datasource​

Open the Content tab, find the Data binding section, and set the Base data path — choose a datasource and place the pivot at the collection (row) level so every widget can read from the same set of rows.

Data picker – Base binding for content, with the pivot set on the rows collection

Learn more: Base data path and Slide Properties → Databinding.

2. Set a row offset on each widget​

When binding a widget, keep Depend on base data path enabled and set its Row offset for pagination — "Which row in a multi-row group this widget displays. 0 = first row, 1 = second, etc."

Data picker showing the Row offset for pagination field on a widget binding

Use row offsets when a single page should display several rows at once. For example, a slide that lists six products gives widget 1 an offset of 0, widget 2 an offset of 1, and so on up to widget 6 with offset 5.

3. Enable Data binding with pagination​

In the Content tab, turn on Data binding with pagination. This exposes two sub-options.

Content tab showing Data binding with pagination, Widgets using pagination row offset, and Remember playback position

Widgets using pagination row offset​

Read-only — it is calculated automatically from the highest Row offset for pagination set on the slide's widgets, and equals that highest offset plus one. For example, if the largest widget offset is 5, this field shows 6. It represents how many datasource rows the slide consumes per page (the size of each multi-row group) and cannot be edited by hand.

Remember playback position​

Disabled by default. Controls whether the paginated slide resumes where it left off when the playlist moves on to another page and later returns, instead of restarting from the first row.

  • Disabled: each time the playlist reaches the paginated slide, it starts again from the first row.
  • Enabled: the slide continues from the next unplayed row.
Example

A paginated slide limited to 5 rows per cycle (Play slides of paginated slide → Specific) with a media file placed after it in the playlist:

  • Enabled: rows 1–5 → media → rows 6–10 → media → rows 11–15 → …
  • Disabled: rows 1–5 → media → rows 1–5 → media → …

Paginated slide page settings​

In Playlist Page Settings, you can individually edit each page's general settings and customize their behavior.

Playlist page settings for a paginated slide page

Duration source​

Controls whether the page uses a fixed duration or a dynamic duration derived from a widget inside the slide.

Learn more: Duration source

Duration​

This duration will define the length of each page generated from the datasource.

  • Minimum duration must be greater than 3s.
  • This duration overwrites the default duration from the playlist's global settings.
In ePaper mode this value is set in minutes, with the minimum duration of 5 minutes.

Mute​

Here you can mute the audio of the slide.

  • Default value: Disabled
caution

If a file used in the slide has been muted at the file level (in the File Manager), the per-page mute setting cannot override it. The file will remain muted regardless of this setting.

Ordering mode​

Ordering mode determines the order in which the datasource rows are displayed. It offers the same options as a Media folder page: Alphabetical, Numerical, and Random.

Play slides of paginated slide​

Play slides of paginated slide controls how many of the paginated slide's pages play before the playlist advances to the next page. It uses the same model as Play elements of folder:

  • One item — plays one page, then moves on to the next playlist element, creating a round-robin effect.
  • All item — plays every page before moving on, showing the whole datasource in one pass.
  • Specific — plays a set number of pages per cycle.
    • Elements per slot — the number of pages played before moving on.
    • Played elements capped by item count — prevents repeating rows when the requested count exceeds the rows available.

Combined with Remember playback position, Specific lets you show a fixed number of rows each cycle and continue through the dataset across cycles instead of restarting.

Advertiser​

  • Select an advertiser where you wish to collect Proof of Play records about the item's playtime

Learn more: Analytics

Playback mode​

  • Each mode determines how the asset behaves relative to other assets in the playlist.

Learn more: Playback Mode

Device tags​

Select tags from the suggestion list to specify which devices are eligible to play this page.

  • You can select whether the device must contain all tags or at least 1 tag has to match.

Learn more: Tags Menu

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