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With your Plus or Pro level Subscriptions, you also have a Media Library. The Media Library allows you to upload your Photos to your DAKboard account and allows you to manage how they are used. From having a Single picture to random rotations, or even controlled rotations of your Photos. Check out the Compare Plans section of DAKboard.com/pricing to learn more about the size of these libraries. The Media Library is only available for use with Custom Screens and their photo blocks. The Predefined Screen cannot use this option as its background. This article will show you how to set up and use your Library and cover the advanced options with Organizational Tags.


Set up your Media Library:


You can access your Media Library in a couple of ways. When you Add the Media Library Photo Block and open the Editor page you will see a button called Manage Media which will take you to the Media Library or you can simply click the  Media Library tab on the left side of your under the Manage section as seen below:



From the Media Library, you can Upload your images by clicking the Upload button in the upper right-hand corner just like any other site. Clicking this button opens your Folders and allows you to pick any photo you want to upload. Select all the ones you want to add, choose Open, and then you can either add a Tag or just click Save to upload as seen below:



Once Saved you will see the images appear on this page. If you want to delete an image, click the checkbox in the upper left-hand corner of the image/images you want to delete, and click Delete Selected as seen below:



NOTE: If you are a Staff Account on a Pro Subscription plan. You must have the Delete uploaded media permission set on your account to have the ability to remove images you uploaded. Only the Account owner may remove images uploaded by other users. See the section Pro Staff Account Permissions below for more details.


You can also edit or delete individual pictures by clicking the three dots in the lower right corner of the image and selecting the Edit or Delete Option. See below:



To add images to your Custom Screen, go to the Custom Screen you want to view the images from, click the Add A Block button, search for Media, and add the block as seen below:



From here, simply size the block, click on the Photo Block, open the editor, and check the images you wish to see. See below:



Save and your Images will start rotating. If you select only one, the image will stay the same. From the Block Editor, you can also make changes to how fast the photos change, the order in which they rotate, Link the Block to other screens, set a schedule as to when the block will show, and add special effects to the images. Check out the Settings, Formatting, and Schedule tabs for more information.


To Edit or Remove an image from your Media Library, open the Media Library 


Organizational Tags:


If you have a large number of files, or if you just want to manage what you can display in your Media Library Photo or Background block on your custom screen, you can now organize these files by using Organizational Tags. Here is how it works.


From your DAKboard account click on the Media Library Tab on the left-hand side of the screen, or from the edit window of the block using the media library, click the Manage Media button to open the  Media Library. In the  Media Library, select all the photos you wish to associate with the new tag, then click the Set Tags button in the upper right-hand corner next to the filter. See below:



Set a name for the tag in the Tag item as: window, and click Create New:




After this on the custom screen in the Block using the Media Library, edit the block, select Tag, place a checkmark next to the tag/tags you wish to display then click Save. This will rotate through all files associated with those tags:




The images will dynamically change as the tagged photos change as well. To change the photos, just add a check next to any photo in the library, select the Set Tags button, and place a check next to any tag you wish to add the file to or remove the tag to exclude the file and click apply to complete the change:



To Rename or Delete a Media Library tag, click on the Set Tags dropdown, mouse over the Tag you want to Rename or Delete and click the three dots that appear to the right of the tag. A new menu will appear to allow you to Rename or Delete the tag. See below:




Getting your Photos to Display in Order:


You can have your Photos run in a set order by using the Order option in the Media Library block editor's Settings tab. The Order option will allow you to run your Photo Randomly, By Name or By Date. See below:



  • Random: This will play your selected photos or tags in a Random order
  • By Name: This will play your selected photos or tags in Alphanumeric order
  • By Date: This will play your selected photos or tags in the order they were added to your Media Library


With this, you can control the order your photos will play on your Custom Screen.


Pro Staff Account Permissions:

Note: This is legacy documentation for DAKboard Pro, no longer offered for new signups


With your Pro Level accounts, you can also have your Staff Accoounts access the Media Library when they are designing the Screens. You can give them as much or as little access to the Library as you wish. The permissions can be found under the Staff Account in the permission section under the Media Tab as seen below:



The permissions work as follows:

  • Upload new media -  This will allow the user to upload images to the Library
  • Delete uploaded media - This allows the user to delete the images they added to the Library. They cannot delete other users' Media
  • View all media uploaded by other staff members- This will allow the users to see and interact with the Media that you allow them access to. You can let them have access to all the Media or just images loaded by specified users.