# Google Slides, Docs & Sheets on Digital Signage | Digital Board > Put Google Slides, Docs and Sheets on digital signage with the Cloud document widget. Slides auto-advance and loop; Docs and Sheets reload on their own. Source: https://gonenli.pusula.cloud/integrations/google-slides-digital-signage ## How to put Google Slides, Docs and Sheets on a digital signage screen Keep editing in Google and let the screens follow. The Cloud document widget shows a Google Slides deck, Doc or Sheet through Google’s own viewer: a deck advances and loops on its own, and your edits appear on screen without re-uploading anything. ### The short version In Google Slides, choose **File → Share → Publish to web** and publish, or share the file with **Anyone with the link → Viewer**. Copy the link. In Digital Board, open **Content → Google & Microsoft documents**, paste it and press **Add document**. Put the new item in a playlist and assign it to a screen. ### How it works Paste any of these and it works: the link from the address bar of a shared file, the published link, or the whole embed code. Digital Board rebuilds it as Google’s embed address, so: - **Slides** advance every *Seconds per slide* (10 by default), loop, and keep themselves up to date. - **Docs and Sheets** reload every 5 minutes by default. Set *Reload every* to change that, or 0 for never. A sheet keeps the tab it was shared on. Under **Widgets → Cloud document** you can also set the zoom and the background. Every player shows a cloud document: Android, Fire TV, Raspberry Pi, Windows and Samsung Tizen load Google’s page directly, and the web player (also used on BrightSign and LG webOS) frames it. ### Step by step - **Open the file** in Google Slides, Docs or Sheets. - **Make it viewable without signing in.** Choose **File → Share → Publish to web** and press **Publish**, or share it with **Anyone with the link → Viewer**. A screen has nobody to sign in to Google. - **Copy the link** (or the embed code). - **In Digital Board**, open **Content → Google & Microsoft documents**, paste it, and press **Add document**. - **Set the timing** if you like: seconds per slide for a deck, or how often a Doc or Sheet reloads. - **Add it to a playlist** and assign the playlist to a screen. The full reference is in [docs/cloud-documents.md](https://github.com/screentinker/screentinker/blob/main/docs/cloud-documents.md). ### Numbers from a Sheet, not a picture of it Showing a Sheet as a document is good for a rota or a table people read. To put a single value on a designed slide (a price, a total, today’s count), connect the Sheet as a **live data source** instead and place the value with a tag like `{{ds:menu.latte_price}}`. When the cell changes, the slide does. Live data is included on every plan. ### Limits - **The file must be viewable without signing in:** published, or shared with “anyone with the link”. Anyone who has that link can see it, so don’t share private documents this way. - **Only `docs.google.com` links** are accepted. - **It needs the internet.** The screen loads Google’s viewer live, so a cloud document doesn’t play offline. For a deck that must play offline, download it as images or a PDF and upload that; a PDF becomes one slide per page. - **The dashboard preview can’t show it,** because the preview is isolated from the dashboard for your security. Use **open in a new tab** next to the link in the editor to check the document. ### Using the Webpage widget instead A published Slides `/pubembed` link still works in the general **Webpage** widget, as it always has. The Cloud document widget is simpler: it accepts the ordinary share link, handles timing and looping for you, and reloads Docs and Sheets on a schedule. The `/edit` and `/present` links need a Google sign-in and refuse to be framed, so they don’t work in either. ### FAQ #### Why won’t my Google Slides link show up on the screen? The file is probably not viewable without signing in. Publish it with File → Share → Publish to web, or share it with Anyone with the link → Viewer, then paste the link again. #### Do viewers need a Google account? No. A published or link-shared file opens without signing in, which is why it works on an unattended screen. #### Can the slides advance automatically and loop? Yes. The Cloud document widget advances a deck every Seconds per slide, 10 by default, and loops it. #### Will the sign update when I edit the file? Yes. Slides keep themselves up to date, and Docs and Sheets reload every 5 minutes by default, so edits reach the screen without anything changing in Digital Board. #### Is there a native Google Slides widget? Yes. The Cloud document widget shows Google Slides, Docs and Sheets, and PowerPoint, Word and Excel files from OneDrive or SharePoint. ### Related - [Microsoft 365: SharePoint, OneDrive and Office files](https://gonenli.pusula.cloud/integrations/microsoft-365-digital-signage.html) - [Canva designs on digital signage](https://gonenli.pusula.cloud/integrations/canva-digital-signage.html) - [Power BI dashboards on digital signage](https://gonenli.pusula.cloud/integrations/power-bi-digital-signage.html) - [All digital signage integrations](https://gonenli.pusula.cloud/integrations/) - [Ready-made templates](https://gonenli.pusula.cloud/templates) ### Put your Google files on a screen Paste a share link and watch it play. Start a 14-day Pro trial on hosted Digital Board: up to 15 screens, every feature, no credit card. 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