Put a status board on a screen

Goal: leave a live status page on a wall display or an old tablet, so anyone walking past sees current work without logging in or touching anything.

Modules: any module whose records you want to show, plus public sharing, which is built in.

Steps

1. Set up the view you want on the screen. A repair queue reads well as a kanban grouped by status; a "done this week" panel reads well as a filtered gallery. Tune the columns, grouping, and filter until the view says what you want at a glance.

2. Turn on a public surface for it. From the view (or an entity kind plus a filter, with no saved view first), enable public sharing. Cobblr hands back a long, random, no-login URL that reads from a separate public endpoint, so only what you shared is ever visible.

3. Set the display options on the surface:

   • Theme: force dark or light instead of following the screen's OS, so a lobby TV always looks the same.
   • Layout: tiles or list.
   • Auto-refresh: how often the page re-fetches, picked from a short list (default every minute). Choose Off, static (e-paper) for a panel that shouldn't flicker on a timer.
   • Banner and footer: an optional cover image and a line of text along the bottom.

4. To put several views on one screen at once, publish a board: a few views side by side, made for a wall.

5. Open the URL on the display device once and leave it. It re-fetches on its own, so new items appear without anyone reloading.

Result

A hands-off status board that stays current. When you want it gone, revoke the surface and the URL stops resolving right away. For the deeper "run it on a wall" setup (screen sizing, e-paper, board layout), see The public board.