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title: Getting Started
description: "## Terminology: **Boards:** Their main purpose is to simplify the management of your entries. They have a URL that can be used within OBS or XSplit to show your cool stuff. **Entries:** Each entry consists out of four parts: -…"
url: "https://help.hc-streaming.com/docs/getting-started/"
updated: "2022-01-15"
category: "HC-Boards / Desktop"
---

# Getting Started

## Terminology:

**Boards:** Their main purpose is to simplify the management of your entries. They have a URL that can be used within OBS or XSplit to show your cool stuff.

**Entries:** Each entry consists out of four parts:

- Trigger: A shortcut that decides when the entry should be shown
- Source: The image, sound, or video which either can be stored locally or linked from the web
- Effect: The way how your entry gets displayed
- Animation: Defining what animation will be used by showing and hiding your entry.

## Parts of HC-Boards

### Dashboard

[![](https://help.hc-streaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Pasted-6.png)](https://help.hc-streaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Pasted-6.png)

| **1** | Main menu | Access your boards and your dashboard. Click on the boards entry to access a list of all of your boards. |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **2** | User menu | Click on your avatar to logout or manage your subscriptions. The bell shows you the latest news of HC-Boards and the cog gives you additional options. |
| **3** | Upgrade | When you're using HC-Boards for free you can upgrade here in order to get more entries, boards and effects. |
| **4** | Connection indicator | Tells you whether the widget server is running. If no connection could be established your entries won't work. |
| **5** | Active shortcuts | Shows how much shortcuts of entries are currently active. |
| **6** | Feedback, Discord | If you want to give feedback or join our discord channel simply click on the respective buttons. |

### Board-Detail

![](https://help.hc-streaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Pasted-8.png)

| **1** | Board name | Your board's name. |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **2** | Board Settings | Here you can rename, delete or disable your board. When a board is disabled its entries will stop working, too. |
| **3** | Widget URL | Behind this URL is the board's widget which you can insert into your streaming tool of choice. A detailed description on how to do that can be found here: [Using it within OBS or XSplit](https://help.hc-streaming.com/docs/using-it-within-obs-or-xsplit/) |
| **4** | Entry name and list of your entries | The area below will sum up all entries assigned to this specific board and its widget URL. |
| **5** | New entry button | Adds a new entry. You have to choose a file type and a name for it to work. Filetypes cannot be changed later. |
| **6** | Entry options | Using this button you can edit the entry's name, delete or rename it. Click on the preview to open its settings. |

### Entry-Detail

![](https://help.hc-streaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Pasted-7.png)

| **1** | Config types | As mentioned in the beginning an entry is divided into 4 properties, here you can switch between three of them. Depending of your file type some settings will change, e.g. no animation tab for sounds. |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **2** | Source type | In case you forgot. |
| **3** | Source options | You can either choose to edit the asset type (Weblink/ Local file) or the assigned source. |
| **4** | Source metadata | Infos of the given source above. |