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# Quick Play: instantly publish content to digital signage screens

> Use Quick Play to immediately push a composition to your digital signage screens for a set duration. Overrides active schedules and resumes them automatically when done.

Quick Play pushes a single composition to your screens immediately for a fixed duration. It overrides any active schedule, existing schedules pause and automatically resume once Quick Play ends.

<Note>
  Quick Play supports **one composition at a time**. Make sure the composition you want to play already exists before you start.
</Note>

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## How to create a Quick Play

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the Publish module and click Publish">
    Click **Publish** in the left navigation, then click the **Publish** button.

    <Frame>
      <img src="https://cdn.pickcel.com/images/support/schedule-publish/v5/Navigate_to_Publish.wvs4NU0Z-iaB.png" alt="Publish module with Publish button highlighted" />
    </Frame>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Select Quick Play">
    **Quick Play** is selected by default on the **Configure Publish** page.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set the duration">
    Choose **30 min**, **1 hour**, **4 hour**, or **Custom** (enter any number of minutes). A summary bar confirms the selection.

    <Frame>
      <img src="https://cdn.pickcel.com/images/support/schedule-publish/v5/Quickplay.1hKXT7-DBlus.png" alt="Configure Publish page with Quick Play selected" />
    </Frame>

    Click **Proceed**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Select your composition">
    Click **+ Browse Content**, search or scroll to find a composition, select it, then click **Confirm**.

    Click **Proceed**.

    <video autoPlay muted loop src="https://cdn.pickcel.com/images/support/schedule-publish/v5/assign_compostion_quickplay.R-u0MogkLXAO.mp4" />

    <Tip>
      The right panel shows a **Quick Play Configuration Summary**. Click **Edit** there to adjust the duration without starting over.

      <Frame>
        <img src="https://cdn.pickcel.com/images/support/schedule-publish/v5/Quickplay%20config%20summary.Xu6j1aldpJKW.png" alt="Quick Play Configuration Summary panel showing Playback Time and Active Dates" />
      </Frame>
    </Tip>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Select screens and publish">
    Check the screens you want to target. Each row shows **Last Seen**, **Current Schedule**, and **Download Status** so you can confirm screens are online and ready.

    <video autoPlay muted loop src="https://cdn.pickcel.com/images/support/schedule-publish/v5/select%20screens%20and%20publish%20quickplay.onKKLrY0VK6n.mp4" />

    <Warning>
      Quick Play overrides any active schedule on the selected screens.
    </Warning>

    To save without assigning screens, click **Skip Screen Selection**, the Quick Play saves as a **Draft**.

    Click **Publish**. Quick Play begins immediately and the entry appears in the **Quick Play** tab with a **Published** status.
  </Step>
</Steps>

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## Managing Quick Plays

All your Quick Plays, active and draft, are listed under the **Quick Play** tab in the Publish module. Each entry shows the name, status, screens assigned, start date, and end date.

To delete a Quick Play, click **⋯** on the row and select **Delete**. This removes it from all assigned screens and cannot be undone.

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## Related

* [Schedule](/schedule-and-publish/v5/schedule), run content between a defined start and end date instead of immediately
* [Advanced Schedule](/schedule-and-publish/v5/advanced-scheduler), build a full content calendar with day sequences
* [Quick Play (v4)](/schedule-and-publish/quick-play), previous workflow