What is a zone in digital signage?
If you’re searching for "zone support" while comparing signage platforms, you’re using the industry’s generic word for something CloudyFy TV names differently. Here’s what a zone is, and what CloudyFy TV actually calls it.
- Zone
- A zone is the generic industry term for one region of a screen, such as a header strip, a main video area and a ticker at the bottom, each showing different content at once. It describes a layout concept, not a specific product feature, and different signage platforms implement it under different names.
Zone vs block
ZonevsBlock
CloudyFy TV does not use the word "zone" for this. What other platforms call a zone, CloudyFy TV calls a block: a positioned element on the layout canvas, whether that’s a video, an image, a playlist, a live rate feed, or one of dozens of other types. A multi-region screen is built by splitting the canvas into panes with split_x and split_y blocks, then placing whatever blocks you want inside each pane. If you’re comparing signage platforms and searching for "zone support," what you actually need to check for is a block-based canvas with splits, which is what CloudyFy TV provides.
How do zones work in CloudyFy TV?
In the layout builder, dragging a split_x or split_y block divides the canvas into independent panes, each holding its own stack of blocks: video, text, a playlist, a live rate feed, and more. Every pane resizes and repositions with the same drag-drop tools as a single block, so a three-region menu-board layout (a video on the left, prices in the middle, a ticker along the bottom) takes the same workflow as building a single full-screen video, just with an extra split step first.
