# Getting started

From an empty account to the first picture on the wall: what Szenera is, how everything fits together, registering, signing in, and your first display in 15 minutes.

> **Type:** area
> **For:** Everyone who opens the portal for the first time or creates an organization, owners and invited members alike.
> **Where in the portal:** Sign-in page and **Dashboard**

![The pairing screen of a freshly switched-on display: the six-character pairing code large in the middle, below it the way into the portal](/docs/getting-started/bilder/b37d2dcc-overview.png)

*This is how a freshly switched-on display reports in: with a six-character code that you enter in the portal.*

## Understand

Five pages without click instructions. They explain the words and the rules you will meet at every later point.

| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| [What is Szenera, and what do you need for it?](/docs/getting-started/about-szenera) | Portal, platform, and the display on site: who does what, what you bring (email, display, player or browser, network), and when what appears. |
| [Key terms: display, device, scene, program, and more](/docs/getting-started/key-terms) | The vocabulary of the handbook in one table, so that display, device, panel, player, video wall, and booked seat mean the same thing everywhere. |
| [How does content get from the portal to a display?](/docs/getting-started/about-content-flow) | Media item, scene, playlist, program, display: the chain from upload to picture, which parts are mandatory, and where you find each link in the portal. |
| [How does a display decide what is playing?](/docs/getting-started/about-playback-decisions) | Override before program entry before base program: the fixed order by which a display finds its content, and the placeholder when nothing is assigned. |
| [What happens when the network goes down?](/docs/getting-started/about-network-outages) | Why a display without internet keeps playing, what Online, Delayed, and Offline actually mean, and when the “last known content” notice appears. |

## Get going

The path from first access to a running display, in the order you walk it.

| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| [Register an organization](/docs/getting-started/register-organization) | The five-step wizard from the email address to “Create organization”: confirmation code, password rule, and the special paths of joining and company account. |
| [Sign in: password, sign-in link, company account](/docs/getting-started/sign-in) | All sign-in paths of the portal, confirmation code and choice of organization, accepting an invitation, and what the messages on the sign-in page mean. |
| [Your first display in 15 minutes](/docs/getting-started/first-display) | Upload a media item, build a scene, publish, create a program, pair a display, assign the program: the shortest path to the first picture on the wall. |
| [The “Finish setup” card](/docs/getting-started/finish-setup) | The seven steps on the dashboard, where each one leads, why some are missing, and how to skip steps. |
| [Find your way around the portal](/docs/getting-started/portal-navigation) | The seventeen areas of the sidebar, header, command palette, Help menu and tour, the phone bar, and how the settings are organized. |

## What comes next

When the first picture is running: read the home page, understand the contract, tackle the next tasks, and look things up when something goes wrong.

| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| [Read the dashboard](/docs/getting-started/read-dashboard) | Status report, live stage, figures of the week, availability against planned time for the last seven days, most played, contract card, quick actions, and notices. |
| [After your first display](/docs/getting-started/after-first-display) | What comes next: invite a team, more displays, programs with times, apps, brand, payment method, analytics, with the path and the page for each task. |
| [Packages, trial, and booked seats](/docs/getting-started/packages-and-trial) | Starter, Pro, Premium, and Enterprise compared, the 30-day trial with prepayment and trial end, and how you recognize a package limit in the portal. |
| [When getting started goes wrong](/docs/getting-started/troubleshooting) | No code email, no code on the display, code rejected, placeholder instead of content, old version, gray display, grayed-out button: the first day. |