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How to show your calendar on a kiosk or front-desk screen

Show your events on a screen at a reception desk, lobby or point of contact: open the calendar's link full screen, or embed it in your own kiosk page.

Written by Piotr Poźniak

A screen at your front desk, in a lobby or at another point of contact can show your upcoming events all day. There are two ways to set it up.

The quick way: open the calendar's link

Every published calendar has its own page. Copy its link from the Install tab, under Hosted Link and Redirection, open it in the screen's browser and switch to full screen. You don't need a website. See How to share your calendar with a link.

If link redirection is on, the link opens your website instead. Turn it off for a kiosk that should only show the calendar.

Your own kiosk page

If your kiosk runs its own web page, embed the calendar in it, the same way as on any website.

Step 1: On your calendar's Install tab, click Install. Add the page's domain as your website, choose Kiosk / PoC and click Continue.

Step 2: Paste the first snippet, the loader, into the page's <head>.

Step 3: Paste the second snippet where the calendar should appear.

If you can't edit the page's <head>, or the page's styles break the calendar, see How to add your calendar to any website (embed code).

A page that runs on the kiosk itself, at localhost, localhost:8080 or localhost:48081, works without adding a website.

Tips for a screen

  • Use a layout that's easy to read from a distance, such as Cards, and choose Show only upcoming events. See How to choose how many events your calendar shows.

  • Turn on the browser's kiosk or full-screen mode, and stop the screen from going to sleep.

  • Revisual keeps the events up to date as your calendar changes. Reload the page now and then, for example once a day, so new events show.

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