Screen Groups

Screen groups organize your screen inventory into a hierarchical tree — much like folders on a file system. A group can contain both screens and nested sub-groups, so you can mirror any structure you need: by city, by network, by venue type, or by partner.

Groups are more than cosmetic folders. Once your screens are grouped, the tree becomes a reusable unit across the platform: you filter the screen list by group, target schedules at a group, and scope user access to a group (see Building a Partner Network).

Open the tree on the Screens page, Groups tab.

How groups work

The group tree always has a root group named All, which holds every screen that has not been placed into a more specific group. Below the root you can nest groups to any depth.

Each screen belongs to exactly one group. A newly added screen starts in the root All group until you move it.

Managing groups

On the Groups tab you can:

Create a group — click Create group, enter a name, and confirm. The new group is added under the currently selected parent.
Rename a group — open the group and edit its name.
Delete a group — remove an empty group. A group that is still in use — for example, one referenced by a schedule quota or a group-scoped user account — cannot be deleted, and the platform shows an error explaining that the group is occupied. Move or reassign its contents first, then delete.

Assigning screens to a group

There are two ways to place screens into a group:

Drag and drop — drag a screen (or a whole sub-group) onto the target group in the tree.
Select and move — tick the checkboxes next to several screens, then use the move action to relocate them all to the chosen group at once.

The same select-and-move action works on sub-groups, letting you reorganize an entire branch of the tree in one step.

Who can manage groups

Managing the group tree is an inventory-owner task. Only an Administrator who is not restricted to a group can create or modify groups. Accounts with any other role, Advertising Manager and Assistant Manager included, only consume the groups that already exist (for filtering and campaign work). See Users and roles for the full role matrix.

Where groups are used

Once your inventory is grouped, the tree drives three separate mechanisms:

Mechanism	What the group does
Screen-list filter	The Screens list has a group filter. Pick one or more groups to narrow a large inventory down to the screens you care about.
Schedule targeting	In Schedules you can target a whole group of screens at once instead of selecting screens one by one.
Access scoping and airtime quotas	A user account can be locked to a single group, and a schedule can cap how much airtime each group’s users may book. Together these turn groups into the foundation of a partner network — see Building a Partner Network.

Mechanism

What the group does

Screen-list filter

The Screens list has a group filter. Pick one or more groups to narrow a large inventory down to the screens you care about.

Schedule targeting

In Schedules you can target a whole group of screens at once instead of selecting screens one by one.

Access scoping and airtime quotas

A user account can be locked to a single group, and a schedule can cap how much airtime each group’s users may book. Together these turn groups into the foundation of a partner network — see Building a Partner Network.