Manage devices

Last update: June 16, 2025

CREATED FOR:

  • Intermediate
  • Admin
  • Developer

This page describes the device assignment.

The Devices console lets you access the device manager to assign your device to a display.

CAUTION
Before assigning your device, register it. See Device Registration.

Device Assignment

Follow the steps below to assign a device to a display:

  1. Navigate to the Devices folder of your project, for example

    http://localhost:4502/screens.html/content/screens/TestProject

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  2. Click your Devices folder and click Device Manager in the action bar. The assigned and unassigned devices display.

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  3. Click an unassigned device from the list, then in the action bar, click Assign Device.

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  4. Click the display that you want to assign the device to from the list, and click the Assign.

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  5. Click the Finish to complete the assignment process.

    The display dashboard displays the assigned device in the DEVICES panel.

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    Click the (…) on the top-right corner of the DEVICES panel to either add device config or update the devices.

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NOTE
Every time the first device is added to a new Screens project, a user group is created.
For instance, if the project node name is we-retail, then the user group name is screens-we-retail-devices.
This group is added as a member of the Contributors group, as shown in the figure below:

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