Live Boards App Overview

Apps Getting Started Updated July 20, 2026 18 views

Live Boards App Overview

Turn your Power Tables data into always-current displays — ranked leaderboards, KPI stat tiles, tables, charts, line trends, momentum boards, goal gauges, status grids, share bars, and safety streaks with name masking and audience controls, live on dashboards, Digital Signage, full-screen Present mode and playlists, and external embeds.

What is the Live Boards App?

Live Boards is the MangoApps display app. Administrators create boards — a leaderboard, a KPI stat tile, a compact table, a bar chart, a line trend, a momentum board, a goal gauge, a status grid, a share bar, or a days-since streak — bound to a saved view in Power Tables, then place them on home dashboards, publish them to Digital Signage screens, run them full screen in Present mode, or share them outside MangoApps through an opt-in embed link. Because a board reads its view live, the display updates as the underlying data changes: import this week’s numbers into Power Tables and every screen showing the board reflects them on its next refresh.

Boards are built for public display from the start. Name masking policies control how people appear on a board (full names, first name plus last initial, or fully anonymized ranks), applied identically on every surface. Audience groups control which employees see a board on their dashboard. A period label (“This week”, “Q3”) tells viewers what they are looking at. An optional goal (a target value with an at-least or at-most direction) colors stat tiles green or red and badges the ranked entries that meet it, and nightly snapshots power “vs last week” deltas on stat tiles.

Core Value Proposition:

Always current — Boards read live Power Tables views; no re-publishing, no stale screenshots
Ten visualizations — Ranked list (leaderboard), Stat (a single aggregate number), Table, Chart (a horizontal bar chart over the ranked entries, with labels masked like every other surface), Line (the stat’s nightly snapshot history drawn as a sparkline — the last 30 days plus the live value), Movers (a leaderboard where every row carries its own 30-day trend line), Gauge (progress toward a goal drawn as an arc), Status grid (every row as a tile colored by its goal band), Share (one 100% stacked bar splitting a total into its parts), and Streak (days since a running total last rose)
Goals and trends — An optional target turns stat tiles green or red with a progress bar and badges goal-meeting entries; nightly snapshots show “vs last week” movement on stat tiles
Masking built in — Choose how names appear per board; the policy is enforced on dashboards, signage, and every other surface from one place
Every screen covered — One checkbox publishes to Digital Signage as a clean top-5 slide; Present mode runs any board full screen on a TV or kiosk without signage — solo, or as a rotating playlist of every board the viewer can see; opt-in embed links carry a board to pages outside MangoApps, read-only and masked
Personal, when signed in — Members see their own rank on people-ranked boards, can drill down to the source view when they have Power Tables access, and can be notified when they enter the top 3 (per-board opt-in)
Honest displays — Broken sources, masking limitations, and signage caps are disclosed in the UI, never papered over

The data trio: AI Sheets (work with data) · Power Tables (store data at scale) · Live Boards (show data live).

At a Glance

Setup Time	Visualizations	Surfaces	Data Source
Under 2 minutes per board	Ranked list, Stat, Table, Chart, Line, Movers, Gauge, Status grid, Share, Streak	Dashboards, Digital Signage, Present mode and playlists, External embeds, Mobile (read-only)	Power Tables saved views

Perfect For:

Sales and store leaders — Top-stores and top-reps leaderboards on the break-room screen, updated as numbers land
Operations — KPI tiles (total units, average handle time, fewest incidents) on team dashboards
HR and engagement — Recognition-style rankings with privacy-appropriate masking for public spaces

Key Concepts

Concept	What it is
Board	A named, admin-created display object: one visualization bound to one Power Tables saved view, plus display options (Top N, order, masking, audience, period label, signage flag).
Source view	The Power Tables saved view a board reads. Boards bind to views, never raw tables — the view’s filters and sorts define the slice on display.
Visualization	Ranked list (entity + score, ranked), Stat (one aggregate number such as sum or average), Table (the ranked list without rank numbers), Chart (a horizontal bar chart over the ranked entries), Line (the stat’s nightly snapshot history as a sparkline), Movers (a ranked list where each row carries its own trend line), Gauge (a stat drawn as a progress arc against its goal), Status grid (the rows as goal-colored tiles), Share (the rows as one 100% stacked bar), or Streak (days since the aggregate last rose).
Entity and Score columns	Ranked lists, tables, charts, movers, status grids, and share boards need an entity column (who or what is shown) and a numeric score column. Stat, line, gauge, and streak boards need an aggregate over a column.
Masking	How names render: Full names, First name + last initial, or Anonymized ranks. Applied on every surface by a single enforcement point.
Audience	An optional group limiting who sees the board on dashboards. Signage screens have no viewer, so the audience does not apply there — the form says so explicitly.

Key Features

Board Builder (Drawer)

Create and edit boards in a drawer form without leaving the list:

Source table, then saved view — pick a table and the form reloads in place to offer that table’s views and columns, preserving everything you have already typed. A table with no views shows a clear pointer: create a saved view first, boards read views.
Visualization — Ranked list, Stat, Table, Chart, Line, Movers, Gauge, Status grid, Share, or Streak, with inline guidance on which fields each needs. Missing an entity or score column produces a specific validation message, not a vague failure. Chart renders the ranked entries as a horizontal bar chart on dashboards (signage shows chart boards as a top-5 list). Line is configured exactly like Stat — an aggregate over a column — and draws its history as a sparkline (see “Line Boards” below). Movers is configured exactly like a Ranked list and adds a per-row trend line (see “Movers Boards”). Gauge is configured like Stat but also requires a goal, which it draws as an arc (see “Gauge Boards”). Status grid is configured like a Ranked list and also requires a goal, which colors every tile (see “Status Grid Boards”). Share is configured like a Ranked list but only accepts an additive aggregate (see “Share Boards”). Streak is configured like Stat and needs no goal (see “Streak Boards”).
Top N and Order — how many entries to show, ranked highest-first or lowest-first (lowest-first makes “fewest safety incidents” leaderboards possible). The form discloses that Digital Signage always caps at the top 5.
Trend column — optionally compare the score against a second numeric column of the same view (for example last_week) to render up/down arrows per entry.
Goal — an optional target value with a direction (At least for “hit this number”, At most for “stay under it”). See “Goals” below.
Period label — free text shown with the board (“This week”).
Publish to Digital Signage — one switch adds the board to signage playlists.
Allow external embed — opt the board into a tokenized public URL for pages outside MangoApps (see “External Embeds” below).
Notify members who enter the top 3 — opt the board into nightly rank-entry Inbox notifications (people-ranked boards).

Goals

Give a board a target and the displays react:

Stat tiles color the value green when the goal is met and red when it is not, show “Goal: at least/at most N”, and draw a progress bar for both directions — an at-least target reads as how much of the goal is achieved, an at-most target as how much of the budget is consumed
Ranked entries that meet the goal get a Goal badge next to their value
Signage stat slides show the goal state too — met or not yet, in color

Boards without a target behave exactly as before; the goal is display logic only and never filters the data.

Warning Thresholds

A goal on its own is pass/fail, but most operational thresholds are not: “under three minutes is good, three to five is worth watching, over five needs someone now.” An optional warning threshold adds that middle band, so a board reads good / watch / act instead of just pass / fail.

Which side of the target the threshold sits on follows the goal direction, and the form rejects it the wrong way round rather than saving a band that could never be entered:

With an at least goal, put the warning threshold below the target — you pass through “watch” on the way up
With an at most goal, put it above the target — you pass through “watch” on the way to breaching

Where the band shows up: stat values and gauge arcs turn amber instead of red, progress bars pick up the amber fill, chart bars are colored per entry, and ranked entries inside the band get a Close badge rather than nothing. A board with no warning threshold keeps the original two-color behavior everywhere.

Target Markers on Chart Boards

Chart boards draw the goal as a marker line across every bar — the bullet-chart pattern — so “who cleared the bar” is a single glance rather than a comparison against a number in a legend. The marker is suppressed when the target falls outside the plotted range: pinning it to the edge of the chart would suggest the goal sits somewhere it doesn’t.

Trends from Nightly Snapshots

Every night, MangoApps captures a snapshot of each active board’s value. Stat tiles use these to show a movement delta — the direction, size, and percentage of the change against an earlier snapshot — with no companion column or extra data required. (The per-entry trend arrows from a companion column still work exactly as before; snapshots add movement over time on top.)

The baseline is set by Compare against: yesterday, or 7, 14, or 30 days ago (7 by default). Match it to how often the board is actually read — a daily huddle board comparing against last week is answering a question nobody in the room asked. The tile always names the date it compared against, so a board too new to have a full window says so rather than implying one.

Line Boards

A Line board turns those same nightly snapshots into a drawn trend: it is configured exactly like a Stat board — an aggregate (sum, average, count, min, or max) over a column — and renders the aggregate’s history as a lightweight sparkline covering the last 30 days of snapshots plus today’s live value. The line is plain inline SVG, so it draws identically on dashboards, the mobile view, full-screen Present mode, and Digital Signage slides — no charting library, no JavaScript.

The history builds itself: a brand-new Line board has only today’s live value, so it renders as a stat with a note that the line appears after the first nightly snapshots accrue. Come back in a few days and the trend is there. Nothing to import, nothing to configure beyond the aggregate.

Movers Boards

A Movers board is a leaderboard that shows momentum as well as standing. It is configured exactly like a Ranked list — an entity column and a score column — but every row carries its own sparkline of that entity’s last 30 days plus today’s live value, drawn from the same nightly snapshots.

This answers a question a standing-only leaderboard structurally cannot: who is climbing. The rep sitting at #4 on a steeply rising line is often the story a top-3 podium hides, and a long-time #1 drifting downward is worth knowing before they drop off. Nothing extra to configure — if the board has been snapshotting, the lines are already there.

Like Line boards, the history accrues on its own: a new Movers board shows a plain ranked list until the first few nightly snapshots land. The date range is stated once above the list rather than repeated under every row. On Digital Signage, Movers boards render as a standard top-5 list — a sparkline that small is not legible at wallboard distance, so the trend lines are deliberately left to dashboards, mobile, and Present mode.

Gauge Boards

A Gauge board is a Stat with its goal as the subject rather than a footnote: the same aggregate, drawn as a progress arc with the percentage in the middle. The arc turns green when the goal is met and red when it is not, and the raw number is still shown above it.

Because the arc is the reading, a Gauge board requires a goal — the form rejects one without a target rather than shipping an empty dial to a wallboard. Both goal directions work: an at least target reads as how much of the goal is achieved, and an at most target (“keep incidents under 5”, “handle time under 3 minutes”) reads as how much of the budget is consumed, where 100% means sitting exactly on the ceiling and anything beyond turns the arc red.

Gauges are the one visualization built specifically for distance. “68% to goal” as an arc is legible from across a warehouse floor in a way a bare number never is, so Gauge boards render on Digital Signage and Present mode as well as dashboards and mobile. Like every other board, the arc is plain inline SVG — no charting library, no JavaScript.

Status Grid Boards

A Status grid answers a question a leaderboard structurally cannot: which of my sites are in trouble right now? A ranking sorts by score, so the store that needs help can sit anywhere in the order — you have to read the whole list and do the threshold arithmetic yourself. A status grid lays the same rows out as tiles colored by their goal band: green on target, amber in the warning band, red off target. Fourteen stores become fourteen tiles, and the red ones find you.

Because the color is the reading, a Status grid requires a goal, exactly as a Gauge does — without a target there are no bands and the grid is a wall of grey. Adding a warning threshold gives the middle amber band and turns pass/fail into good / watch / act.

Above the tiles the board states the headline in words — “3 off target · 9 of 14 meeting the goal” — because counting colored squares is precisely the work a viewer should not have to do. Every tile also spells out its band (“On target”, “Watch”, “Off target”) underneath the value: roughly one man in twelve cannot reliably separate red from green, and this is the one board type where that distinction is the entire message.

Status grids render everywhere, including Digital Signage, where they are arguably at their best — five colored tiles read from across a room in a way five ranked rows do not. Signage caps every board at five entries, so order the board so the rows that matter arrive first (an “at most” goal with lowest-first ordering puts the worst performers on the screen).

A Share board answers a part-to-whole question — what share of our downtime is each cause? — as a single 100% stacked bar with a legend. A ranked list tells you which cause is biggest; a share tells you it is two thirds of the problem, which is a different decision.

Two honesty rules are built in:

Only additive values divide into a whole. Percentages of averages (or of minimums and maximums) are arithmetic nonsense, so the Aggregate on a share board must be Count or Sum, or left blank. Anything else is rejected when you save. If a board is somehow rendered with values that cannot form a whole — negative numbers, missing values, an all-zero total — the board shows its ranked values with the reason stated plainly instead of drawing a bar that would mislead.
What the whole IS gets stated. The bar is a share of the rows on this board (your Top N), not of the entire table, and the caption under it says so.

A stacked bar stops being readable past about six segments — the slices get narrower than their own labels — so everything beyond the fifth row is grouped into one “Other (N)” segment rather than drawn and lost. Ranks are deliberately dropped: a composition is not a standing.

On Digital Signage, where every board is capped at five entries, the missing remainder is drawn as an explicit unlabelled segment rather than re-scaling the visible slices. That matters: re-basing would inflate every percentage and misreport each cause. The bar always sums to 100% and always tells the truth, truncated or not.

Streak Boards

A Streak board is the most universal frontline wallboard there is: “28 days since the last incident.” It is configured like a Stat — an aggregate over a column, which must be Count or Sum because a streak watches a running total rise — and it needs no date filter on the view.

The streak is derived from the board’s own nightly snapshots: it is the number of consecutive days on which the running total did not increase. A gap in the history (a missed nightly run) does not break the run, because a total that is unchanged either side of the gap cannot have risen inside it — so the count is measured in real calendar days rather than in snapshot rows.

Under the number the board states three things: the date of the last increase, the longest run on record, and the window that record covers. That last one is the important qualifier — a board can only see back to the day it was created, so “longest run on record” means “since this board started tracking”, and the board says exactly that rather than implying an all-time record. A brand-new board says “Counting starts with tonight’s snapshot” instead of showing a wrong number: a streak needs two days to compare.

A goal on a streak board is measured in days (“at least 30 days clean”), and the usual green/amber/red banding applies to the day count. Streak boards render on every surface; on Digital Signage they are a single very large number with its caption, which is exactly what a wallboard at the end of a corridor should be.

Present Mode

Every board has a Present mode: a full-screen page at its own URL (/apps/live-boards/boards/<id>/present) built for TVs and kiosks that are not running Digital Signage. The page refreshes itself every two minutes with a plain page refresh — no JavaScript required — so it survives on any browser-capable screen. Present mode is available to any member the board admits (the same audience gate as dashboards), not just admins; clicking a board’s name in the boards list opens it in a new tab.

Present rotation (playlists). For a wallboard loop, the Present rotation button on the boards list opens /apps/live-boards/boards/present: a full-screen playlist that cycles through every board the viewer can access, one board per interval, with a small “N of M” position indicator. Each rotation tick is itself the page refresh — still zero JavaScript — so the loop runs on any TV browser. The URL takes two optional parameters: ?ids=3,1,2 curates the playlist to exactly those boards, in that order, and ?interval=30 sets the seconds each board stays on screen (default 60, accepted range 15–600). The button is member-visible, and the server re-applies every audience gate — a viewer’s rotation only ever contains boards they could open individually.

External Embeds

Per board and off by default, “Allow external embed” generates an unguessable tokenized URL (/boards/embed/<token>) that renders the board on pages outside MangoApps — an intranet you have not migrated yet, a partner portal, a vendor wallboard. Embeds are read-only, the board’s masking policy applies exactly as on every other surface, and no MangoApps login is required — which is precisely why each board opts in individually. Rotate the token from the board’s edit drawer and every previously shared link stops working immediately.

Your Rank and Rank Notifications

On people-ranked boards, signed-in members get two personal touches:

“Your rank” footer — a member viewing the board on a dashboard or on mobile sees their own rank and value in the board’s footer, whatever the masking policy (you always know your own name). Anonymous surfaces — signage, embeds — have no viewer and never show it.
Rank-entry notifications — when a board opts in (“Notify members who enter the top 3”), a nightly check compares the board against the previous day’s snapshot and sends an Inbox notification to members who newly entered the top 3. Off by default, per board.

Drill-Down to the Source

Viewers who can access Power Tables see a small open-source-data icon in a dashboard board’s header (“Open the source table with this board’s view”) that jumps straight to the board’s table with its bound view applied — from “the number looks off” to the underlying rows in one click. The link only appears for viewers with Power Tables access, and never on signage or public embeds.

Name Masking That Fails Closed

Masking is applied at a single point in the rendering pipeline, so dashboards, signage, and any future surface all obey the same policy:

Full names — show the value as-is
First name + last initial — “Priya S.” (requires a People-typed entity column)
Anonymized ranks — “Anonymous” entries; where the viewer is identifiable on a dashboard, their own row shows “— You”

If the entity column is not a People column, its values cannot be shortened — so under any policy other than Full names the board shows “Participant #1, #2…” instead of risking a raw value on a public screen. The board form warns you inline when your column choice triggers this behavior.

Boards List with Honest Status

The Live Boards list shows every board with Active / Archived / All filter chips, pagination, and columns for type, source, masking, signage, and placements:

Source — the table/view pair, or a red “Source unavailable” badge when the table or view behind the board was archived or deleted; the board’s status badge turns red too
Signage — “Yes”, or “Yes (off app-wide)” when the board is flagged for signage but the app-level signage switch is off, so the flag never reports something untrue
Used on — where the board is placed (first two placements, then “+N more”)
Edit / Archive / Restore — archiving hides the board from every surface immediately and warns you which placements are affected; restoring brings placements back

Boards render through the platform’s widget system: once created, a board appears in the dashboard builder’s palette and can be placed like any widget. The Widget Gallery lists boards read-only in its Custom Widgets tab with an “Edit in Live Boards” link — the Gallery is the library, Live Boards is the authoring app.

Digital Signage

Boards with Publish to Digital Signage enabled emit slides into signage playlists (when the Live Boards signage source is enabled on the screen). A signage slide shows the board’s title and period label, then the reading its visualization calls for — never the internal table name, and always with the masking policy applied. Most boards render as a big stat value or a top-5 podium; a Status grid renders as five goal-colored tiles, a Share board as its 100% stacked bar (with the truncated remainder drawn explicitly so the bar still sums to 100%), and a Streak board as one very large day count with its caption. Signage is a polling surface, so slides refresh on the screen’s normal cycle as data changes.

Settings

Two app-level controls (admins):

Show boards on Digital Signage — the signage kill-switch. Turning it off removes every board from signage at once, regardless of per-board flags (and the boards list discloses this state).
Default name masking for new boards — the masking policy pre-selected in the board builder.

Settings also offers Load Sample Data — a Store Performance table with 48 rows, a saved view, and two boards, shared with the Power Tables app, so you can see the pipeline working end to end.

User Roles & Permissions

Role	Capabilities
Admin (business admin or Live Boards app admin)	Create, edit, archive, and restore boards; configure settings; load sample data
Member with app access	See boards placed on their dashboards (subject to each board’s audience); view the boards list read-only
Signage screens	Render published boards anonymously — no viewer, masking always applied, audience not applicable

Left sidebar: Apps > Live Boards (direct URL: /apps/live-boards)
The boards list is the app home; Settings is in the page header (admins); clicking a board’s name opens it full screen in Present mode
Boards are placed on dashboards from the dashboard builder’s widget palette, and appear read-only in the Widget Gallery’s Custom Widgets tab

Getting Started

Prerequisite: Power Tables

Boards read Power Tables saved views, so Live Boards needs the Power Tables app enabled and at least one table with a saved view. The app never leaves you at a dead end: if Power Tables is not enabled, the list shows an “Enable Power Tables” link; if it is enabled but has no usable table, it links you to “Open Power Tables” to create one.

Create your first board

In Power Tables, make sure your table has the data and a saved view capturing the slice to display (see the Power Tables overview for the create-import-save-view walkthrough)
Go to Apps > Live Boards and click New Board
Name the board, pick the source table, then the saved view
Choose a visualization — Ranked list for a leaderboard, Stat for a single number, Table for a compact listing, Chart for a horizontal bar chart, Line for a snapshot-history sparkline
Pick the entity and score columns (ranked/table/chart) or an aggregate (stat and line); set Top N and the order
Choose a masking policy appropriate for where the board will appear
Optionally set an audience group, a period label, a trend column, and Publish to Digital Signage
Click Create Board, then place it from the dashboard builder or let signage pick it up

Pricing

Live Boards is a pay-as-you-go app billed per active board per year: $60 each for the first 10 boards, $48 each from 11 to 50, and $36 each beyond that. Boards are counted nightly; archived boards are free — archive what you are not displaying and pay nothing for it. There is no floor and no per-seat charge. The app is off until an admin enables it.

Best Practices

Bind boards to purpose-built views — put the filtering logic in the Power Tables view (“Q3 only”, “West region”) so the board stays simple and the logic stays governed
Match masking to the surface — Full names for a team dashboard may be fine; prefer First name + last initial or Anonymized ranks for lobby and break-room screens
Use a People column as the entity when ranking employees — masking policies can only shorten real user references; text columns anonymize entirely under any policy except Full names
Set a period label — a leaderboard without a timeframe invites wrong conclusions
Use Lowest first deliberately — “fewest incidents” and “shortest handle time” boards rank the smallest score first
Give KPI tiles a goal — a green/red tile with a progress bar reads faster on a wallboard than a bare number
Treat embed links like keys — an embed URL works for anyone who has it; enable embedding only on boards meant for outside eyes, and rotate the token when a link has traveled too far
Opt into rank notifications sparingly — reserve “notify the top 3” for boards where entering the top genuinely deserves a ping
Archive instead of deleting — archived boards keep their configuration, stop billing, and restore with their placements intact

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Can boards show charts?
A: Yes — two shapes. A board can render as a horizontal bar chart over its ranked entries, with the same masking policy applied to the labels, or as a Line board: a stat aggregate whose nightly snapshot history draws as a sparkline (the last 30 days plus the live value). Pie charts and charts over arbitrary columns are not available, and there is no CSV/XLSX export or public API in this version.

Q: Can I show a board on a TV that doesn’t run Digital Signage?
A: Yes — open the board’s Present mode (click its name in the boards list, or use /apps/live-boards/boards/<id>/present). It is a full-screen page that refreshes itself every two minutes with a plain page refresh, so it works on any screen with a browser. Any member the board’s audience admits can open it. To cycle several boards on one screen, use the Present rotation button instead — it plays every board you can access (or a curated ?ids= set, in your order) full screen, one per interval (60 seconds by default, 15–600 via ?interval=).

Q: Can I embed a board in a page outside MangoApps?
A: Yes, per board: enable Allow external embed in the board’s edit drawer and share the generated /boards/embed/<token> URL. The embed is read-only, applies the board’s masking policy, and needs no MangoApps login — which is why it is off by default. Use Rotate to invalidate every previously shared link at once.

Q: How do goals work, and do they change the data?
A: A goal is a target value plus a direction (at least / at most) and it is display-only: stat tiles color green or red with a progress bar, ranked entries that meet the target get a Goal badge, and signage stat slides show met / not yet. The underlying view is never filtered by the goal.

Q: Will people be notified about their ranking?
A: Only on boards that opt in. With “Notify members who enter the top 3” enabled on a people-ranked board, members who newly entered the top 3 (compared with the previous nightly snapshot) get one Inbox notification per entry, checked nightly. Separately, every signed-in member sees their own rank in the board footer on dashboards and mobile.

Q: Can I see boards on my phone?
A: Yes — a read-only mobile view at /m/apps/live-boards shows the boards your audience membership admits and renders each board natively, masking included (chart boards draw lightweight proportion bars; line boards draw the same sparkline as desktop). Creating and editing boards remains a desktop flow.

Q: Why does my board say “Source unavailable”?
A: The Power Table or saved view it reads was archived or removed. Restore the table (within its grace period), or edit the board and point it at a different view. Broken boards stop rendering on every surface rather than showing stale data.

Q: Why can’t I delete a saved view in Power Tables?
A: A view that one or more boards are bound to cannot be deleted — Power Tables refuses and tells you how many boards use it. Repoint or archive those boards first. This includes archived boards, so a later restore is never silently broken.

Q: I set Top N to 20 — why does the signage slide show 5?
A: Digital Signage slides always cap at the top 5, and the board form discloses this. Wallboards are glanceable displays; the full Top N renders on dashboards. Two consequences worth knowing: on a Status grid the cap means the first five tiles, so order the board to put the rows that matter first; and on a Share board the missing rows are drawn as an explicit unlabelled remainder rather than re-scaling the visible slices, so the percentages you read on a wallboard are the same percentages you read on a dashboard.

Q: Why doesn’t my audience restriction apply on signage?
A: Signage screens have no signed-in viewer, so there is nobody to evaluate an audience against. The audience controls dashboards only; masking is what protects public screens, and it always applies.

Q: My leaderboard shows “Participant #1, #2…” instead of names. Why?
A: The board’s entity column is not a People column, and the masking policy is something other than Full names. Values that are not user references cannot be shortened to a first name and last initial, so the board anonymizes them rather than leak the raw value — the board form warns about exactly this when you configure it.

Q: Boards disappeared from all our screens at once. What happened?
A: Check Live Boards > Settings — the “Show boards on Digital Signage” switch turns the entire signage feed off app-wide. The boards list shows “Yes (off app-wide)” in the Signage column while it is off.

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