--- title: "EasySignage - Occasions App" description: "Use the Occasions app to celebrate birthdays, work anniversaries and other dates on your digital signage, with a designed slide that plays on each person's day." url: https://easysignage.com/help/apps/digital-signage-occasions/ --- # Occasions App Use the Occasions app to celebrate birthdays, work anniversaries, retirements and other dates on your screens. You keep a list of people and their dates, choose a design, and on each person’s day the screen shows a slide with their name, your message and, if you like, their photo and how many years it has been. On a day with no entries, the app shows nothing. _Note: Occasions is included on the Premium and Enterprise plans. It isn’t offered in video wall playlists._ > **Important:** The Occasions app is supported on Android players only. ## How to Add the Occasions App 1. Open the playlist, then click the layer. See [Playlist Media Management](https://easysignage.com/help/playlists/digital-signage-media/) . 2. If the layer is empty, the content apps open. If it already has media, click **Add New**. 3. Click **Occasions**. The setup window opens. Use one Occasions item per kind of occasion, for example one for birthdays and one for work anniversaries. ## Choose the Design ![Occasions setup window](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/apps/occasions/occasions-setup.webp) - **Select a theme**: click the theme to choose another one. - **Spotlight**: a round photo beside the text. - **Split**: the photo on the left and the text on the right. - **Backdrop**: an optional **Background image** behind the text, with a round photo. ![Select a theme](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/apps/occasions/occasions-themes.webp) - **Background colour**: the colour of the slide. On **Backdrop** it tints the background image: the more transparent the colour, the more of the image shows. - **Text colour**: the colour of the name. - **Secondary text colour**: the colour of the message and the date. - **Logo**: shown in the corner of every slide. Optional. - **Word after the number**: shown after the year count on entries that show it, for example **Years** gives “5 Years”. Leave it empty to show the number alone. Images can be JPG, PNG, WEBP or GIF. ## Add People 1. Under **Entries**, click **Add entry**. 2. Fill in the entry: - **Name**: the person’s name, up to 60 characters. - **Message**: shown above the name, for example “Happy birthday”. Up to 60 characters. Optional. - **Date**: the full date, including the year it started, for example the date of birth or the start date. - **Repeats**: **Every year** for birthdays and anniversaries, or **Once** for a single date. - **Show the number of years**: adds the year count, for example “7 Years” for a work anniversary. - **Upload Image**: the person’s photo. Optional. 3. Click **Save**. ![Add an entry](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/apps/occasions/occasions-entry.webp) To change an entry, click its edit icon. To remove it, click its delete icon: it is removed straight away, without a confirmation. An Occasions item can hold up to 200 entries. For more people, add another Occasions item. ## Import a List To add many people at once: 1. Under **Entries**, click **Import list**. 2. Paste your list, or click **Load from file** to load a CSV file. 3. Click **Import**. ![Import list](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/apps/occasions/occasions-import.webp) Put one entry per line, in this order: name, date, repeats, photo URL, message. For example: ``` name,date,recurrence,photo_url,message Dana Okonkwo,1990-08-14,annual,,Happy birthday ``` - Only the name and the date are needed. The first line can be a header; it is detected automatically. - Write dates as `YYYY-MM-DD`, for example `1990-08-14`. - For a single date, write `once` in the repeats column. Anything else means every year. - A photo URL must be a public `https://` link to a JPG, PNG, WEBP or GIF. A message tells you how many entries were added and how many lines couldn’t be read. ## Save and Publish 1. Click **Save**. The slides are made for each entry. For a long list this can take a few minutes, and the entries can’t be edited until it finishes. 2. Click **Publish changes of this playlist** to send the slides to your screens. Each entry shows its status: | Status | What it means | | --- | --- | | **Ready** | The slides are made. | | **Not rendered** | The slides aren’t made yet. Click **Save**. | | **Failed** | The slides couldn’t be made. Click **Save** to try again. | | **Past** | The entry happens **Once** and its date has passed, so no slide is made. | If you see _“Rendering did not finish. Save again to continue where it stopped.”_, open the item and click **Save** again. It continues from where it stopped. ![Entries with their status](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/apps/occasions/occasions-entries.webp) ## What Plays on the Screen On each entry’s day, the screen shows its slide. The preview in the playlist shows the next slide for each entry. ![An Occasions slide](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/apps/occasions/occasions-slide.webp) ![An Occasions slide with the number of years](https://easysignage.com/help/assets/img/apps/occasions/occasions-slide-years.webp) - **Which day:** the day is taken from the screen’s own clock. - **How long:** each slide plays for the item’s **Duration**. - **No entries that day:** nothing from this app plays. If it is the only item in the layer, the layer has nothing to show that day. - **29 February:** in years without one, the slide plays on 28 February. - **Number of years:** counted from the year in the entry’s date. Slides are made for the next two occurrences of each entry. When they are about to run out, the entries show _“Slides run out on {date}. Save to extend them.”_: open the item, click **Save**, then publish. Changing the theme, the colours, the logo, the background image or the **Word after the number** remakes every slide when you save. ## Related articles - [Playlist Media Management](https://easysignage.com/help/playlists/digital-signage-media/) - [Playlist Media Settings](https://easysignage.com/help/playlists/digital-signage-media-settings/) [Previous ##### Follow Us App](https://easysignage.com/help/apps/digital-signage-follow-us/) [Next ##### Geckoboard App](https://easysignage.com/help/apps/digital-signage-geckoboard/)