Your layout comes from an upgrade, so you have rich text on the main layout. You’ll only be able to add new rich text widgets to playlists (because our new way of adding text is via the text element).
So:
- add a playlist
- add rich text widget
As I said in my post, I don’t have any issues setting an effect on this widget, or on an upgraded layout. If you can provide an export of your layout, I am happy to have a look.
It is not currently possible to have an effect set on a text element added to a layout. We have a longer term plan to add lots of animation options to Xibo, see Element animations.