HR and internal comms already post the news on SharePoint or in Teams. Lumicast picks it up from there and puts it on the displays in the canteen, the corridor or the factory floor. Nobody types anything twice, and colleagues who rarely sit at a computer still get to read it.
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There are two familiar ways to get intranet news onto a display. Both struggle once the display has to run all day.
A PC or stick opens SharePoint under a signed-in account. When Microsoft asks for a fresh sign-in or a second factor, there’s a login screen waiting in the morning. And an intranet page is made for a monitor at arm’s length, not for a display a few metres away.
Internal comms posts the news on SharePoint, then again in the digital signage system. That takes time every week, and the one time it’s forgotten, the display falls behind.
Lumicast fetches the posts with read-only access and puts them in an app or in your own design. The display never signs in to Microsoft. Images from the posts come along, so the display can show them.
News from a site or a whole hub, the items in a list and the messages in a Teams channel. A few examples:
The news posts of a SharePoint site, with title, summary, banner image, author and date. When internal comms publishes a new post, it’s on the displays within minutes.
Choose your hub site and Lumicast brings together the news from the hub and the sites associated with it, up to 50 sites, newest first. Each post says which site it came from, so you can show HR or Facilities next to it.
Birthdays, new starters, this week’s lunch menu or notices: whatever is in a SharePoint list, you can show as an overview with one row per item.
Choose a Teams channel and its messages appear on the displays, with the images posted in them. Whoever posts in that channel doesn’t need a Lumicast account.
Need more than the summary? Have Lumicast fetch the full text. The photos from the article then come through separately, so you can show them large.
Does your Site Pages library have its own columns, such as department or location? They come through with every post automatically, ready to show on the display.
For many displays, an app is all you need: connect, choose a site, done. If you want the news in your own brand style, next to other content on the same page, you link the fields yourself.
On every plan
A carousel with the news from a site or the items in your own list, or an overview of upcoming birthdays. You choose the colours, the font and how long each post stays on screen.
With Team
The latest messages from a channel, with images and, if you like, who posted them and when. Your Microsoft administrator approves the Lumicast app once.
With Team
Create a data source for SharePoint news, a SharePoint list or a Teams channel and use its fields in any page you design. This is also where you bring together the news from a whole hub.
You design the page yourself in the editor, start from a template or have Lumi, our AI designer, draft one. Where the latest headline should go, type / and pick the field from your SharePoint data source. A list goes into a repeating group: one row per item.
How to link data to a page →For SharePoint, you need a Microsoft account that can read the sites. For Teams, your administrator gives a one-off approval first.
Sign in with an account that can read the sites or the channel, and give consent. For SharePoint, Lumicast asks for read-only access and never writes anything back. Ideally, use a separate account for the displays.
Pick the site, the hub, the list or the Teams channel. You only see what the connected account is allowed to read.
Add the app or your page to a playlist and choose which displays play it, and when. New posts then appear by themselves.
These templates are made for news about colleagues. Open one in Lumicast and replace the sample names with fields from your SharePoint list.
Next to the news, you’ll often want to show a team’s figures, or which meeting room is free. Those come from Power BI and from the calendar in Outlook.
The SharePoint apps are included in every plan. Bringing together the news from a whole hub, using SharePoint in your own pages and showing messages from Teams come with Team.
From €17 per display per month
Solo billed annually, or €21 monthly. Team: €20 per display per month billed annually, or €25 monthly. All prices excl. VAT. Your Microsoft 365 licences come from Microsoft.
Compare plans →Only what the connected Microsoft account is allowed to read. Lumicast asks for read access to sites (Sites.Read.All) and never writes anything to SharePoint. A site in the hub that the account can’t read is skipped.
For Teams, yes: your Microsoft administrator approves the Lumicast app once, and after that you can connect. For SharePoint, it depends on your organisation. If employees may approve apps themselves, you give consent while connecting. Otherwise, your administrator approves the app once.
By default, Lumicast checks for anything new every 5 minutes. With news from a whole hub, a new post or a new site can take longer to appear, because SharePoint has to index it first. That takes anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.
Then the connection stops updating and the displays keep showing the latest posts. Lumicast warns you when a connection is about to expire. Reconnect signs you back in, including when your organisation requires multi-factor authentication.
The display keeps showing the latest posts it received. If they are well past their refresh time, the display shows a notice that the content may be out of date. As soon as the connection is back, the new posts appear.
Yes. During the 14-day trial you have access to Team and can connect your own Microsoft account, including Teams and news from a whole hub. If you don’t choose a plan afterwards, your displays stop playing. Your workspace and content stay available.
Connect SharePoint or Teams during the trial and see how your news looks on a display. Questions about approvals in Microsoft 365? We’re happy to help.
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