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Avid® iNEWS

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Avid iNEWS v2017.1 User’s Guide • Created 10/16/17 • This document is distributed by Avid in online (electronic) form only, and is not available for purchase in printed form.

Using This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

If You Need Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

How to Order Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Avid Training Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Chapter 1 iNEWS System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Newsroom System Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

The iNEWS Workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

The iNEWS Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

The iNEWS Community. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Terms and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Chapter 2 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Logging In to iNEWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The iNEWS Workstation’s Main Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Displaying or Hiding the Status bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

iNEWS Navigation Made Easy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Using the Directory Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Opening a Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Closing a Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Using the Go To Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using the Destination Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Changing Your Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Logging Out of iNEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Chapter 3 The iNEWS Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Overview of an iNEWS Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Opening an iNEWS Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Changing Workspace Color Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Working with Panels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Changing the Layout of Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Resizing a Panel in the Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Zooming in on a Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Moving From Panel to Panel in Zoom Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Zooming out of a Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Displaying a Context Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Arranging Multiple Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Switching Between Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Closing a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Working with Multiple Monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Chapter 4 Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Standard Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Displaying or Hiding a Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Moving a Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Custom Toolbars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Creating a Custom Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Modifying a Custom Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Creating a Shortcut Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Shortcut Button Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Chapter 5 Working with Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Changing Forms for Viewing Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Changing the Width of a Queue Form Field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Easy Locking a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Key Locking a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Moving a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Opening a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Refreshing a Queue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Searching for Text in a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Specifying a Destination Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Unlocking a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Using Abstract Display in Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Using Currency Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Viewing Queue Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

MediaCentral | UX Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Chapter 6 Working with Wires. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Viewing Priority Wire Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Viewing the Ten Most Recent Priority Wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Chapter 7 Stories - Creation and Modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Understanding the Story Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Displaying Story Form Sub-Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Displaying Instruction Sub-Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Navigating the Story Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Changing Tab Settings for Story Text Sub-panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Creating a New Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Creating Story Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Opening a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Changing Case of Text in Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Formatting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Searching for Text in a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Replacing Text in a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Using iNEWS Scratchpad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Pasting Text from the iNEWS Scratchpad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Erasing the iNEWS Scratchpad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Inserting a Download Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Inserting a Time Stamp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Adding Page Breaks to a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Spell-Checking a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Creating a Custom Dictionary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Saving a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Saving a Message as a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Chapter 8 Moving Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Selecting a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Selecting Several Stories in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Selecting Several Stories out of Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Copying a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Copying Several Stories in a Sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Copying Several Stories out of Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Moving a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Moving Several Stories in a Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Moving Several Stories out of Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Grouping Stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Importing a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Exporting a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Exporting Multiple Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Mailing a Copy of a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Chapter 9 Stories - Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Easy Locking a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Edit Locking a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Key Locking a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Removing an Edit lock from a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Unlocking a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Protecting a Story from Being Deleted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Backing up a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Recovering a Backed-Up Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Killing a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Retrieving a Killed Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Versions of Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Chapter 10 iNEWS Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Overview of Projects and Facets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Creating Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Date Variables for Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Creating Facets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Creating a New Story inside a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Associating Stories with Projects or Facets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Creating a Navigation Shortcut Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Chapter 11 Scripted Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Displaying a Production Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Enabling Autoscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Adding a Production Cue to a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Adding a CG Production Cue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Adding a Video Production Cue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Adding a Still Store Production Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Moving a Production Cue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Deleting a Production Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Using Script Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Using CG Title Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Primary Machine Control Event Placeholder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Inserting MOS Items from Video IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Using MOS Placeholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Unscripting a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Chapter 12 Production Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Producer Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Endorsing a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Inserting a Break Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Ordering a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Calculating Backtime from Out Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Displaying the Show Timing Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Establishing Broadcast Control in a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Loading a Rundown Queue into Broadcast Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Placing a Rundown Queue in Show Timing Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Production Locking a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Setting Clock for Show Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Setting Story Start Times in a Rundown Queue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Synchronizing a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Synchronizing the First Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Synchronizing a Rundown Queue During Broadcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Timing Story Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Timing a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Floating a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Tracking a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Clearing AIR-DATE Field and ON-AIR Flags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Chapter 13 Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Local Printing Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Local Printing a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Local Printing a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Chapter 14 Messages and Mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Checking User Names for Validity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Sending a Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Message Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Replying to a Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Recalling a Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Saving a Message as a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Sending an Intersystem Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Sending Mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Reading Mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Replying to Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Forwarding Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Deleting Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Setting Mail Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Chapter 15 Sessions and Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Working with Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Customizing User Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Setting Session Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Setting Confirmation Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Setting Backup Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Setting Refresh Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Setting Layout Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Setting Search Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Chapter 16 Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Types of Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Creating a Macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Using the State Keys in Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Chapter 17 Searching in iNEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Types of Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Basic Word Searches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Seek Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Indexed Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Pattern Matching Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Phrase Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

The Find/Find Next Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Find/Find Next Search String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Using Find/Find Next in the Story Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Using Find/Find Next in the Queue Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Using the Find All Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Find All Search String. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Find All Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Managing Your Favorite Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Date Variables for Searching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Using the Find Global Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Search Results Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Search Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Word Delimiters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Basic Proximity Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Field Searches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Searching Older Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Chapter 18 Local Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Local Database Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Forms and Print Styles for Local Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Local Database Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Creating a Local Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Logging into a Local Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Creating a Folder in Your Local Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Creating a Queue in Your Local Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Deleting a Folder or Queue from a Local Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Chapter 19 Connecting to a Remote Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Disconnecting from a Remote Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Appendix A System Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Directory Panel Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Message and Mail Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Queue Panel Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Story Panel Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Project Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Workspace Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Search Keyboard Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Appendix B Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Directory Panel Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Messaging and Mail Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Queue Panel Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Chapter Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

Using This Guide

Congratulations on your purchase of your Avid iNEWS newsroom computer system.

Avid iNEWS newsroom computer system offers a considerable amount of functionality for the state-of-the-art newsroom, including newsroom system integration with playout control software, and mobile or web-based applications. With Avid iNEWS, newsroom personnel can easily create and manage rundowns for news broadcasts, create and edit stories, monitor wires, and so forth.

This publication provides information on how to use the Avid iNEWS system.

The documentation describes the standard features of a basic system configuration. Therefore,

your system might contain certain features and hardware that are not covered in the documentation.

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order you select them. For example, File > Import means to open the File menu and then select the Import command.

This symbol indicates a single-step procedure. Multiple arrows in a list indicate that you perform one of the actions listed.

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

If You Need Help

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1 iNEWS System

The iNEWS system is a modular newsroom computer system that is a powerful tool for aggregating research material, creating rundowns, and editing stories. When combined with other Avid systems, such as iNEWS | Command or MediaCentral | UX, it provides journalists, producers, directors, and various technical personnel in the newsroom an array of high quality tools to make their jobs easier.

While daily work is done at an iNEWS Workstation, it is still useful for you to have an understanding of the larger architecture, which makes up the system.

The following topics provide more information on the iNEWS system:

Newsroom System Overview

•

• Terms and Concepts

Newsroom System Overview

Before discussing basic procedures and operations of iNEWS, it is important to describe the components that make up the system and to review common terms and concepts specific to iNEWS.

The iNEWS Workstation

The iNEWS newsroom computer system primarily consists of iNEWS Workstations, which connect to iNEWS Servers. Journalists working at iNEWS Workstations can simultaneously monitor news wires, work on stories, search archives, and access an array of online information sources.

From individual workstations, producers and news directors can plan and monitor the progress of shows by viewing their rundowns. Color highlights on the workstation screen show critical status information, making it easy to see the current state of the show and production devices.

The iNEWS system enables users to collaborate on all aspects of the show production process. Mail and messaging capabilities make group communication fast and efficient. And with the iNEWS Community feature, personnel in various newsrooms can communicate and share data across multiple iNEWS systems.

Access to the iNEWS database is not limited to workstations in the newsroom because iNEWS seamlessly integrates with another Avid product; MediaCentral | UX is a cloud-based, web front-end that lets you connect from a desktop computer, laptop, or mobile device for real-time access to production assets, metadata, and iNEWS stories.

The iNEWS Server

The iNEWS Server manages all of the day-to-day activities of the newsroom. System administrators can create forms-based displays and customize rundowns specific to their newsrooms.

The data you and others in your newsroom create—stories, scripts, news rundowns, etc.—are saved in a database (file system) on the iNEWS Server. When the iNEWS Server receives new information, such as additions or changes to stories, that information is immediately available to all newsroom personnel.

Although iNEWS Server is referred to as a singular unit, an iNEWS system typically consists of

two or more computers called servers—all of which run the iNEWS Server software. Each computer acts as a backup for the other to protect the overall stability of the system as a whole.

The iNEWS system protects your information by mirroring the database across all of the servers within the system. The mirroring process provides redundancy, ensuring that any information you add to your stories or rundowns is actually stored in multiple locations. Should anything happen to one of the servers, the other servers can maintain services and ensure the integrity of the database.

Newsroom System Overview

The iNEWS Community

The fast-paced nature of the news business requires the ability to turn content around quickly and efficiently. Broadcasters must be able to gather news from a vast range of resources and engage in collaborative efforts with others located in remote newsrooms.

The iNEWS Community feature eliminates communication barriers by allowing news teams to drag and drop stories directly between systems, easily access and duplicate stories from other iNEWS systems, and build shortcuts to remote locations. Journalists and producers at station groups and large broadcast sites can access, view, edit, monitor and search for content across various locations in a seamless fashion, thus enabling them to identify breaking news more quickly, reducing the time and costs associated with getting stories to air. Users logged in to systems within the same community can also communicate via the messaging feature of iNEWS.

Terms and Concepts

The following iNEWS terms and concepts are used throughout iNEWS documentation and are provided here as a convenience.

Term Description

Directory Panel The Directory panel is one of the three primary panels that make up the

iNEWS workspace. It has two tabs: the Directory tab, which is your guide to the iNEWS database, organized in a tree-style structure and consisting of directories, sub-directories, and queues; and the Projects tab, which displays projects and facets in a similar tree-style structure.

Directories Like a file drawer in a file cabinet, a directory is a storage space. Directories

can contain several levels of subdirectories and one or more queues.

Queues Like a folder in a file drawer, queues are the lowest level in a file structure and

contain one or more stories. A queue is an area of the database that contains related stories, such as wire stories, search queries, or a show rundown of scripts. The name assigned to a queue should identify its contents. Whatever a queue’s contents, the detailed information of each story is visible only in the Story panel. Use the Queue panel to manage stories in a queue, such as the order, and so forth.

Terms and Concepts

Queue Panel The Queue panel is one of the three primary panels that make up the iNEWS

workspace. The Queue panel displays a list of the stories in a queue. Stories are added, deleted, moved, and ordered through this panel.

Stories A story is a document listed in a queue in the database. It might contain any

type of information from scripts with production cues to contact names and addresses. A story may be displayed in its entirety in the Story panel of the iNEWS workspace.

Story Panel The Story panel displays a story’s form, text, and any other pertitent

information, such as production cues. Of the three main panels that make up the iNEWS workspace, the Story panel is unique because it may be divided into three sub-panels, the Story Form panel, Instruction panel, and Story Text panel.

Story Form Sub-Panel

Instruction Sub-Panel

The Story Form sub-panel contains metadata fields for describing the story, such as a script’s page number, slug or title, format, Video ID, and so forth. The data also appears in tabular form in the Queue panel.

The Instruction sub-panel contains production cues or machine control instructions for production devices, such as character generators.

Term Description

Terms and Concepts

Story Text Sub-Panel

The Story Text sub-panel contains the text or script of a news story that is sent to closed captioning and to the teleprompter to be read on-air. It is the only part of the Story panel that is always displayed—unlike the Story Form and Instruction panels, both of which can be hidden based on the nature of the story or the user’s preferences.

Rundown The Rundown (also known as Running Order or Lineup) is a queue with

specific form fields and characteristics, which allow an ordered list of scripted stories to be organized as a timed show. The timed-out list of scripts indicate the order in which they will run during a news program. The rundown is viewed in the Queue panel of the iNEWS workspace.

Monitor Server The monitor server is a utility program, running on the iNEWS Server. When

turned on, it checks its assigned rundown for machine control events, reports any errors, and creates a playlist. When “loaded”, the monitor server sends its playlist to a specified device automation system, such as iNEWS | Command or ControlAir.

Project Projects are a way of categorizing stories by topic so that news teams working

on a particular topic can find everything related to it in a single place, without moving or copying the original source information from its current location in the database. Projects and facets are displayed on the Projects tab in the Directory panel.

Facet Facets are sub-topics, providing additional granularity to projects.

2 Getting Started

The following topics provide more information on using the iNEWS system:

Logging In to iNEWS

•

• The iNEWS Workstation’s Main Window

- Status Bar

• iNEWS Navigation Made Easy

- Using the Directory Panel

- Using the Go To Menu

• Changing Your Password

• Logging Out of iNEWS

Logging In to iNEWS

When you are ready to begin your iNEWS session by logging in, first start the application.

To start the application:

t Do one of the following:

- Double-click the iNEWS Workstation icon, usually located somewhere on the desktop.

- Select Start > Programs > Avid > iNEWS.

If the icon is not on the desktop or iNEWS is not located in the Start menu, check with your

system administrator to determine if the program is installed on the computer.

The iNEWS Server Connection dialog box appears.

Logging In to iNEWS

You must then log in.

To log in to iNEWS:

1. From the iNEWS Server Connection dialog box, enter your user name in the User text box.

In most cases, the next two steps can be skipped. Typically, you will not have to choose a server

or local database. If you need to do so, and do not know the name of the server or local database, contact your system administrator.

2. If necessary, choose a server to connect your workstation to the shared iNEWS Server database.

3. If necessary, choose a local database to connect to a database stored on your workstation. For more information about local databases, see

4. Enter your password in the Password text box. As you type in the password, symbols display on screen in place of what you type to ensure confidentiality.

5. Click the Login button. One of the following will occur:

- A dialog box might prompt you to change your password. If this happens, follow the

procedure found in

- The Message of the Day might appear, which displays information such as: daily staff

notes, updates, and so forth. It can contain one or several messages, as determined by your system administrator. If multiple messages exist, Previous and Next buttons are provided so you can scroll through them. Otherwise, once you’ve read the messages, click the Close button to continue on to the iNEWS Workstation’s main window.

- The iNEWS Workstation’s main window appears, containing the iNEWS Workspace.

This will happen automatically if there is no Message of the Day.

“Changing Your Password” on page 31.

“Local Databases” on page 206.

The iNEWS Workstation’s Main Window

Becoming familiar with the layout of the iNEWS Workstation and its main window will help you navigate through the program more effectively. All of the work you do at an iNEWS Workstation is performed in the application’s main window. From this window you can navigate through your system—or another iNEWS system in your community—open queues and stories, edit and print scripts, prepare broadcasts, send and receive messages or email, and search the database.

The main window is made up of five components, including toolbars and workspaces.

Component Description

Title bar A title bar appears at the top of every open workspace and window—including the

main window, which shows the name of the application.

The iNEWS Workstation’s Main Window

Component Description

Menu bar The menus appear at the top of the main window, directly under the window’s title

bar. Each menu has a list of commands to choose from. You can initiate commands from the menu bar with the mouse or the keyboard. An arrow to the right of a menu command indicates that another menu, called a submenu, appears when you choose that command.

Toolbar(s) The toolbar area is located directly under the menu bar. Toolbars have buttons that

display icons representing the tasks they perform. Toolbar buttons offer a fast way to perform common tasks. When certains tasks are unavailable, the buttons representing those tasks appear gray. The iNEWS system provides several standard toolbars, but you can create custom toolbars as well. You can also customize whether toolbars are displayed. For more information, see

Workspace(s) The workspace is the area of the main window in which you perform all of your

work, from editing and creating stories to reading wires or searching the database. For more information, see

Status bar The status bar is an at-a-glance indicator, which appears at the bottom of the main

window. When urgent stories come in over the news wires, for instance, notices appear in the status bar. For producers, the status bar displays important show timing information and monitor status related to machine control integration.

“The iNEWS Workspace” on page 33.

“Toolbars” on page 44.

Status Bar

The iNEWS status bar is your key to vital information in an instant. It displays up-to-date information related to urgent wires coming into the priority queue, monitor status for machine control integration, and other important system messages as they happen. What appears will vary depending on where you are working within the iNEWS application.

The status bar is divided into three areas where information can appear: the left end, the center, and the right end.

Area Description

Left end Displays Ready or a show’s timing information.

Center Displays a notice if the user receives new mail.

Right end Segmented in eleven sections, with each designed to display certain types of status

notifications.

The iNEWS Workstation’s Main Window

The following table explains the types of data provided in the sections on the right end of the status bar.

Status Description

Monitor Displays the monitor server’s status:

• MON=ON (as shown in previous graphic), which means the monitor server has been turned on for the current rundown queue.

• MON=LOAD (as shown at left), which means a rundown’s playlist has been successfully loaded to all designated production devices, and the monitor server is monitoring the situation. This section of the status bar appears green when this status is displayed.

• MON=ERROR, which means an error has occurred and a problem exists between iNEWS and the production device(s) for the current rundown queue. This section of the status bar appears red when this status is displayed.

• MON=PARTIAL, which means a rundown’s playlist has been partially loaded or loaded to only some of the designated production devices. This section of the status bar appears yellow when this status is displayed.

Production Lock Displays PRD when the production lock is set for the opened queue. When not

locked this field appears blank.

Queue Info. Displays a numerical value representing the number of non-floated stories in a

rundown queue. (The monitor server does not load production cue data in floated stories.)

The letters WAT appears in this section of the status bar when the user

opens a queue with the Watch Appends attribute, such as the WIRES.ALL queue.

Sort/Order Displays the queue status:

• SRT, which means the queue the user has navigated to is sorted.

• ORD is displayed if the queue is manually ordered.

• If neither, then this field appears blank.

The iNEWS Workstation’s Main Window

Status Description

Priority Queue Displays various information related to urgent wire stories coming in to the

priority queue.

• When an urgent wire story arrives, the title of the story—often truncated—is shown and the section appears in different colors, such as yellow or orange.

• When multiple urgent, unread wire stories are in the priority queue, a lightning bolt icon appears along with the number of unread stories available (as shown in previous graphic).

Double-clicking on this section will open the priority queue in a new workspace. Right-clicking on this section will open the last 10 urgent stories in Alerts History dialog box.

Also displays broadcast messages and technical warnings when received from system administrators or the system itself.

Body Lock Appears empty unless the user has locked the body of the story, which is being

edited. When locked, the user’s ID appears next to the Body Lock icon.

Form Lock Appears empty unless the user has locked the story form. When locked, the user’s

ID appears (as shown at left).

Caps Lock Displays CAP when Caps Lock is activated on the keyboard. When not activated

this field appears blank.

Number Lock Displays NUM when the Number Lock is activated on the numerical keypad.

When not activated this field appears blank.

Overwrite Displays OVR when the word processing status is set to overwrite text as a user

types. When set to insert, this field on the status bar appears blank.

Mail/Message Displays an open envelope icon when the user receives new mail. If a new instant

message is received, then the section on the status bar displays an icon that looks like a white sheet of paper. Both icons blink if the mail or messages are unread.

Displaying or Hiding the Status bar

While the iNEWS system provides the status bar to display vital, instant information, you can decide whether to display or hide the status bar at any workstation.

To display or hide the status bar:

t Select View > Status bar.

The status bar, when unchecked, will not be displayed as part of the main window.

iNEWS Navigation Made Easy

The iNEWS system offers numerous ways to navigate through the system, view directories, open queues, and display stories without scrolling through the entire database.

The various methods include the Directory panel and the Go To menu. The Urgent button on the Main toolbar enables users to navigate to wires and view urgent stories or news flashes. Users can also create their own customized toolbars to navigate to specified locations with a single click of shortcut buttons. For more information, see

Using the Directory Panel

The Directory panel, which is part of the iNEWS workspace, has two tabs. The Directory tab outlines the contents (or file structure) of your host system’s news database. If you are familiar with Microsoft Windows, you will be familiar with the tree-like structure of the iNEWS directory. The Projects tab displays projects and facets in a similar, expandable structure. For more information on the Projects tab, see

The Directory tab information in the Directory panel is grouped into local systems and Communities, each with directories (or folders) and queues.

“Overview of Projects and Facets” on page 108.

iNEWS Navigation Made Easy

“Custom Toolbars” on page 49.

Icon Description

Indicates a local iNEWS system or a remote system in a Community on the local system. The green light on the server icon appears red if the system is unavailable.

Indicates a directory or subordinate folders. Each directory can contain subordinate folders and queues. An exclamation mark in a blue square appears over the folder icon if the directory is indexed.

Indicates a queue. An exclamation mark in a blue square appears over the queue icon if the queue is indexed.

Indicates a search queue.

You can use your mouse or keyboard to easily navigate within the Directory panel. Here are some common navigation keys:

Key Action

Home Moves the cursor to the top of the directory

Key Action

Up arrow Moves the cursor up one item in the directory

End Moves the cursor to the bottom of the directory

Down arrow Moves the cursor down one item in the directory

Page Up Scrolls up one screen

Left arrow Closes an expanded directory

Page Down Scrolls down one screen

Right arrow Opens the selected directory or queue

Opening a Directory

Open a directory when you want to work with the queues and stories it contains.

To open a directory:

1. Select the directory you want to open.

2. Do one of the following:

iNEWS Navigation Made Easy

t Double-click the directory.

t Click the plus (+) sign to the left of the directory you want to open.

t Press the right arrow key.

The directory expands to show you all of the subfolders and queues in it.

Pressing the right arrow key on the keyboard when a queue is selected in the Directory panel will

open the queue. When you open a queue from the Directory panel, the contents of the queue automatically open in the Queue panel, and the first story in that queue appears in the Story panel.

Closing a Directory

Close a directory when you are finished working in it or if you want to view other information in the Directory panel.

To close a directory:

t Click the minus sign (-) to the left of the directory you want to close.

t Press the left arrow key.

The directory collapses and hides all of the subdirectories and queues in it.

Using the Go To Menu

The Go To menu allows you to quickly move through the system and access any user-specified queue via the Destination command. It also provides quick access to the priority queue, which is where the urgent news wires are located; by using this menu, you can either open the priority queue to view all urgent wires or view a truncated list (last 10 urgent wire stories) in the Alerts History dialog box.

When in the Queue panel, you can use the Go To > Time command to navigate to the next story

in the queue based on how old the story is.

To access the priority queue:

t Select Go To > Priority Queue.

The priority queue of urgent wire stories is also available via the Urgent button on the Main

toolbar.

To open the Alerts History dialog box:

t Select Go To > Alerts History.

Using the Destination Command

iNEWS Navigation Made Easy

The Destination command takes you directly to a specified queue or folder.

To use the Destination command:

1. Select Go To > Destination.

The Go to Queue or Folder dialog box opens.

2. Specify the pathname of the queue or folder you want to open in the Destination text box. You may not have to type the entire pathname; as you type, the iNEWS system’s auto-complete feature will check the database and fill in the field as soon as a match is found.

3. Click OK.

The dialog box will close and the specified queue or directory will open.

If the destination you specify is located in a locked queue, you must enter the correct password to

open the queue.

Changing Your Password

You can change your password at any time. Your password should be alphanumeric and can contain punctuation marks—such as a period, hyphen, asterisk, question mark, and so forth—but it cannot contain any spaces. Any attempt to include a space is rejected with a warning that appears in a dialog box, as shown:

By default, your password must be at least five characters and no more than 12 characters— unless your system administrator specifies other requirements.

Changing Your Password

To change your password:

1. Select Tools > Options > Change Password.

The Change Password dialog box opens.

2. In the Old Password field, type your current password.

3. In the New password field, type your new password.

4. In the Confirm new field, type your new password again.

5. Click OK.

The next time you log in to iNEWS you will be required to enter your new password.

Logging Out of iNEWS

When you finish working with iNEWS, end your session by logging out.

To log out of iNEWS:

1. Do one of the following:

t Select File > Exit.

t Click the X button in the upper right corner of the main window.

t Press Alt+F4.

It is possible for the system administrator to reconfigure the function of Alt+F4 to do something

else other than close the program. By default, this keystroke combination will close the program.

The system automatically saves your work.

A message box might open, telling you that your session will end.

Users can modify their preferences to turn off this message box so that it doesn’t appear, in which

case step 2 would no longer be necessary.

2. Click Yes to end the session and exit the iNEWS newsroom computer system.

Logging Out of iNEWS

3 The iNEWS Workspace

The iNEWS software is a Windows-based application, which means it uses windows, menus, and toolbars to manipulate and display information. All iNEWS windows contain several components, which include: toolbars, the menu and status bars, and workspaces.

The following topics provide more information on the iNEWS workspace:

Overview of an iNEWS Workspace

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• Opening an iNEWS Workspace

- Changing Workspace Color Settings

• Working with Panels

- Changing the Layout of Panels

- Resizing a Panel in the Workspace

- Zooming in on a Panel

- Moving From Panel to Panel in Zoom Mode

- Zooming out of a Panel

- Displaying a Context Menu

• Arranging Multiple Workspaces

- Switching Between Workspaces

• Closing a Workspace

Overview of an iNEWS Workspace

The primary workspace is known as the iNEWS workspace, but workspaces for other plug-ins, such as Avid Deko Select, may also be viewed in the iNEWS window. Users may also have multiple iNEWS workspaces open simultaneously within the window.

The following image shows a typical iNEWS workspace with its three primary panels identified.

Overview of an iNEWS Workspace

The iNEWS workspace’s panels display various information stored in the iNEWS database. The three primary panels available in a workspace are:

Panels Description

Directory Displays the directory or file structure of the iNEWS newsroom computer

system on the Directory tab. Use it to navigate through the iNEWS database. Projects are also displayed in this panel on the Projects tab. By default this panel appears on the left side of the iNEWS workspace.

Queue Displays a list of the stories in a queue in a spreadsheet format. Stories are

added, deleted, moved, and ordered through this panel. By default this panel appears on the top right side of the iNEWS workspace.

Opening an iNEWS Workspace

Panels Description

Story Displays the story’s text and any other pertinent information, such as production

cues. By default this panel appears on the bottom right side of the iNEWS workspace. Of the three main panels that make up the iNEWS workspace, the Story panel is unique because it may be divided into three sub-panels, which are called: Story Form, Instruction, and Story Text. Of the three sub-panels, only the Story Text sub-panel remains visible within the Story panel all of the time. A user may hide the other two.

If a story is associated with a project or facet, the Story panel becomes tabulated with two tabs: Story and Project, both of which are displayed side-by-side in this panel when a user opens the story. The Story tab appears on top by default and displays the body of the story as usual, including production cues and machine instructions, if any. Users can click a story’s Project tab to view the projects and facets with which that story is associated, along with related stories, if any. For more information, see

page 116

“Associating Stories with Projects or Facets” on

A user can choose to view only one primary panel at a time or arrange the panels in one of four different layouts. The layout options are defined in more detail in “Changing the Layout of

Panels” on page 38

Opening an iNEWS Workspace

Open a workspace when you want to view an area of the iNEWS database in a specific layout. Users can open multiple workspaces within a single session of iNEWS.

To open a new workspace, using the default layout:

t Do one of the following:

- Click the New Workspace button on the Main toolbar to open a new workspace without

specifying a queue.

- Press Shift+Ctrl+N.

The workspace will open in the default layout without displaying a specific queue in the Queue panel or any story in the Story panel. The iNEWS directory will appear in the Directory panel so the user can then navigate to any folder and queue in the database.

To open a workspace to a specific queue:

1. Do one of the following:

t Click the Open Workspace button on the Main toolbar.

t Select Window > Open Workspace.

t Press Shift+Ctrl+O.

The Open Workspace dialog box opens.

2. Enter the directory path of the queue you want to open.

3. Click a layout to open the workspace with that layout.

Changing Workspace Color Settings

You can change the color of the text and highlighting as it is displayed in iNEWS. Any changes you make affect only your user account and will follow your login.

Opening an iNEWS Workspace

To change workspace color settings:

1. Select Tools > Options > Colors.

The Color Rules dialog box opens.

Opening an iNEWS Workspace

2. Select a color rule from the Rule list.

The Test(s) and Affects fields change with your selection, and a sample of the rule you selected appears in the Sample field.

3. Click Text Color to change the text color, or click Back Color to change the highlight color.

The Color dialog box opens.

4. Select a color and click OK.

The Sample field in the Color Rules dialog box displays the color you selected.

5. Click Bold, Italic, or Underline if you want to apply that attribute to the text.

6. Do one of the following:

t Click Apply to make this change and continue making color changes.

t Click OK to make this change and close the dialog box.

Working with Panels

The workspace provides iNEWS users the chance to arrange its panels in a variety of ways to best suit the needs of the user. Panel sizes can be modified, the layout altered, or users can zoom in on a single panel.

This section provides more information about all of the ways you can adjust the primary panels of an iNEWS workspace.

Changing the Layout of Panels

The iNEWS system gives you several ways to view your workspace layout. You can change the layout at any time. The layout you choose remains until you log out of the system.

Working with Panels

There are four possible layout options:

Option Icon Description

#1 The default layout provides the Directory panel on the left, the Queue

panel on the top right, and the Story panel on the bottom right side of the iNEWS workspace.

#2 The second option positions the panels in a 3-wide, vertical split with the

Directory panel on the left, the Queue panel in the middle, and the Story panel on the right.

#3 The third option provides a two-panel simultaneous view, with a vertical

split. In this layout, the Story panel remains on screen on the right side of the workspace. The user can toggle between viewing the other two panels (Directory and Queue panels) on the left side of the workspace by selecting that side and pressing Alt+Right or Left arrow.

Working with Panels

Option Icon Description

#4 The fourth option provides a two-panel simultaneous view with a

horizontal split. In this layout, the Story panel remains on screen at the bottom of the workspace. The user can toggle between viewing the other two panels (Directory and Queue panels) on the top half of the workspace by selecting that side and pressing Alt+Right or Left arrow.

To change the layout of panels in an open workspace:

1. Select View > Layout or press Shift-Ctrl+L.

The Select Workspace Layout dialog box opens.

2. Click the workspace layout you want. The workspace is changed to the layout you selected.

The first four buttons on the left of the Layout toolbar (shown below) can also be used to change

the layout of panels within the workspace.

The other three buttons pertain to arranging multiple workspaces. See “Arranging Multiple

Workspaces” on page 41 for more information.

Resizing a Panel in the Workspace

Resize a workspace panel when you need to view more of one panel and less of another.

To resize a workspace panel:

1. Place your cursor along border of the panel you want to resize.

As you move your cursor over the border, the cursor changes from a pointer to a splitter bar.

2. When the splitter bar is active, click the border and move it to resize the panels.

3. Release the button at the new position.

The workspace panel is resized until the next time you resize the panels.

Zooming in on a Panel

You might want to zoom in on a panel when you want to concentrate on information in a particular panel. When you zoom in on a panel, it occupies the entire workspace and hides the other panels.

To zoom in on a panel:

1. Click on the panel you want to zoom in on.

2. Do one of the following:

t Select View > Zoom.

t Press Alt+Z.

The panel you chose now occupies the workspace.

You can press Alt+Z again to toggle back to the original multi-panel view.

Moving From Panel to Panel in Zoom Mode

Working with Panels

You can move from one panel to another in zoom mode. This is helpful if you want to view detailed information for each panel.

To move from panel to panel in zoom mode:

1. Zoom in on a panel.

2. Do one of the following:

t To move left, press Alt+Left arrow.

t To move right, press Alt+Right arrow.

t To move from the story body to the story form, press Alt+Up arrow.

The pattern for navigating while in zoom mode is:

Navigation between the three main panels while in zoom mode does not loop. In other words,

pressing Alt+Right arrow while zoomed in to the Story panel will not move to the Directory panel. If you are zoomed in to the Story panel and want to view the Directory panel, press the Alt+Left arrow keystroke combination twice.

Zooming out of a Panel

When you want to return to a normal two- or three-panel view of the workspace, you can zoom out of a panel.

To zoom out of a panel:

t Select View > Zoom.

t Press Alt+Z.

You can press Alt+Z again to toggle back to the single-panel view.

Displaying a Context Menu

A context menu contains frequently used commands, making those commands readily accessible in the panel in which you work. The command options available will vary depending on what panel the mouse pointer is in when you right click.

To display a context menu:

t Right-click on the panel in which you want to work, and then select a command from the

context menu.

Arranging Multiple Workspaces

In the Directory panel, when you display the context menu, the options will reflect the location

of your cursor. For example, when you select a queue icon, the Properties menu option will apply to that queue. If a folder icon is selected, the Properties menu option will apply to the directory and its contents.

Arranging Multiple Workspaces

In iNEWS, you can arrange many workspaces in the main window. This allows you to work on several stories at once with the workspace layout you like best.

To arrange multiple workspaces:

t Do one of the following:

- Select Window > Auto Arrange > option (either Off, Horizontally, or Vertically).

- Select one of the three arrangement buttons on the right of the Layout toolbar, shown

below:

The open workspaces are arranged according to the arrangement choice you made.

Switching Between Workspaces

While the iNEWS Workstation allows you to open up several workspaces at once, to work in a particular workspace, that workspace must be active. A workspace is active when its title bar is a different color from the other workspaces.

To switch between workspaces:

t Click on any part of the workspace.

t Press Ctrl+Tab.

Closing a Workspace

You can close any workspace in the main window without exiting iNEWS.

To close a workspace:

1. In the main window, click the workspace you want to close. Ensure that its title bar is highlighted. Usually, it will appear blue when active.

2. Do one of the following:

t Click the X button in the upper right corner of the workspace you want to close.

Closing a Workspace

t Select Window > Close.

The workspace closes, with any changes saved automatically. Any other open workspaces will remain open in the main window.

By default, pressing Ctrl+F4 will close the active workspace, unless the system administrator

has reconfigured the Ctrl+F4 keystroke combination to do something else.

To close all workspaces simultaneously:

1. Do one of the following:

t Select Window > Close All.

t Press Alt+W, then type L.

Working with Multiple Monitors

Users, such as news producers, might want to run iNEWS at workstations with multiple monitors. Avid iNEWS does support this option; however, there are some things one must keep in mind if running iNEWS client software on a dual monitor workstation.

• If the application is maximized at close, it will be maximized on the primary monitor when it is reopened, regardless of which monitor it was on when closed.

• Moving a user from a dual monitor workstation to a single monitor computer, such as an undocked laptop, could result in the application opening to a screen that no longer exists.

To move iNEWS to single available screen:

1. Right click on iNEWS in the Windows taskbar.

2. Select Move.

3. Press on of the Arrow keys on the keyboard; this will lock the application’s window to the mouse pointer.

4. Use mouse to position mouse pointer onto the screen and the iNEWS main window will move with it.

Working with Multiple Monitors

4 Toolbars

In iNEWS, the standard toolbars allow you to easily access many of the same options you’ll find in the menu. You can also create your own custom toolbars and shortcut buttons, utilizing macros, to help speed up your productivity.

The following topics provide more information on toolbars:

Standard Toolbars

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- Displaying or Hiding a Toolbar

- Moving a Toolbar

• Custom Toolbars

- Creating a Custom Toolbar

- Modifying a Custom Toolbar

• Shortcut Button Images

- Creating a Shortcut Button

Standard Toolbars

The iNEWS system provides ten standard toolbars with which you can access many of the same options you’ll find in the menus; however, some buttons on toolbars are distinct from menu commands.

Toolbars make it easy for you to quickly perform a function. By dragging and dropping a toolbar, you can place it anywhere in the workspace to suit your needs. You can also choose to remove toolbars that you don’t need to conserve screen space. By positioning the mouse pointer over any button on a toolbar, you can view a tooltip that briefly describes the function of each button.

The standard toolbars cannot be altered, but they can be hidden or moved within the iNEWS Workspace. Each standard toolbar is described in the following table:

Standard Toolbars

Toolbar Description

Browse Lets you move easily among stories. Options include: First, Previous, Next, and Last.

Clock Displays the workstation clock time.

Edit Gives you quick access to editing tasks, such as: Cut, Copy, and Paste.

Find Searches queues and story panels for text you specify.

Format Lets you add styles and colors to text. Options include: Font, Bold, Italic, Underline,

Normal, Presenter Instruction, Closed Caption, and Machine Control Instructions.

Layout Lets you change the workspace layout and the arrangement of the window.

Main Lets you perform standard iNEWS tasks. Options include: Create a new workspace,

Open an existing workspace, Create a new story, Edit lock/unlock, Check spelling, Save a story, and Print to a local printer. Additionally, the Main toolbar provides buttons for viewing priority wires stories, such as bulletins, accessing your mail and messages, and opening a Web browser within iNEWS. Icons on some buttons will blink when new, unread data is received, such as urgent wires, mail, or messages.

Messages Lets you view and send instant messages between you and other iNEWS users.

Toolbar Description

Navigation Lets you navigate around the workspace. The Up and Down Arrow buttons move you

through the panels of the workspace and back again. The Right and Left Arrow buttons may be used to navigate back and forth between previously viewed queues within the current session.

Timing Lets you view—from left to right—the item countdown, segment countdown, and

over/under times in a rundown. The show timing clocks are blank (as shown) when show timing is off.

Displaying or Hiding a Toolbar

Standard Toolbars

You can display or hide any toolbar to help manage your work.

To display a toolbar:

1. Select View > Toolbars.

The Toolbars dialog box opens.

Standard Toolbars

The toolbars that are already displayed have a checked box next to the toolbar name.

Search Results, although listed in the Toolbars dialog box, is not a toolbar. It is a special pane

that, like toolbars, can be displayed or hidden within the iNEWS window. For more information, see “Search Results Pane” on page 195.

2. Click a toolbar check box to display that toolbar.

3. Click Close.

The toolbar you selected appears in the toolbar area of the main window.

To hide a toolbar:

1. Select View > Toolbars.

The Toolbars dialog box opens.

The toolbars that are already displayed have a checked box next to the toolbar name.

2. Click the box next to the toolbar you want to hide.

When the box is blank, that toolbar will not be displayed.

3. Click Close.

The toolbar you deselected no longer appears in the toolbar area.

You can right-click anywhere in the toolbar area at the top of the main window to access a

context menu with a list of toolbars and a customize option. Selecting the customize option will open the Toolbars dialog box, allowing you to customize the display of toolbars or create new custom ones.

Moving a Toolbar

You can arrange the toolbar section of iNEWS to meet your needs. In addition to displaying and hiding toolbars, you can also rearrange the order of the toolbars to appear in any order at the top or on the side of the workspace. You can only move toolbars when they are displayed in the workspace.

To move a toolbar:

1. Click anywhere just outside of the buttons in the toolbar you want to move.

2. Drag the toolbar and drop it in its new location.

Your new toolbar arrangement will be displayed until the next time you rearrange the toolbars.

Custom Toolbars

A custom toolbar helps you work more effectively. The buttons you create will take you to specific places in the database. Instead of navigating through the directory panel, you can go to a queue with a single click of a button.

Custom Toolbars

When adding or modifying a shortcut button on a custom toolbar, you will define the:

• Button name

• Queue directory path

• Tooltip description for the button

• Button image

You can also delete a shortcut button when it is no longer useful.

Creating a Custom Toolbar

Create a custom toolbar for those tasks that you need to perform or destinations you need to access often in iNEWS.

To create a custom toolbar:

1. SelectView > Toolbars.

The Toolbars dialog box opens, showing standard system toolbars. Any custom toolbars you create will appear at the end of the list.

2. Click New to add a custom toolbar name to the list.

The New Toolbar dialog box opens.

Custom Toolbars

3. Type the name you want to assign to the toolbar you are creating.

4. Click OK.

The Customize Toolbar dialog box opens.

5. You can now create shortcut buttons for your toolbar.

Custom Toolbars

For more information, see “Creating a Shortcut Button” on page 53

6. Click OK to return to the Toolbars dialog box.

7. If it is not already checked, click the check box to the left of the toolbar you just created.

8. Click Close to close the Toolbars dialog box and return to the main window.

The toolbar you created appears at the top of the Directory panel. The following image is an example of a custom toolbar displayed horizontally. Custom toolbars can be positioned within the workspace vertically too.

9. Click the title bar of the new toolbar and drag it to the toolbar area of the iNEWS Workspace.

Modifying a Custom Toolbar

If you have the proper security access, you can make modifications to a custom toolbar to fit your needs. For instance, you can change the order in which the buttons appear in a custom toolbar, or you can delete a button that you never use. See your system administrator to find out if you are able to modify custom toolbars.

To modify a custom toolbar:

1. Select View > Toolbars.

The Toolbars dialog box opens.

Custom Toolbars

2. Click the check box to the left of the customized toolbar you want to modify.

You cannot modify standard system toolbars; therefore, the Customize and Delete buttons are only enabled when you select a customizable toolbar.

3. Click Customize.

The Customize Toolbar dialog box opens.

4. In the Customize Toolbar dialog box, you can move, modify, add, or delete buttons from the toolbar, and specify where to show text labels for toolbar buttons. Select the option you want to perform.

5. If you modify or add a button, complete the Custom Toolbar Button dialog box and click OK twice to return to the Toolbars dialog box.

If you selected any other option, click OK to return to the Toolbars dialog box.

6. If it is not already selected, click the toolbar you just modified to have it appear in the main window.

7. Click Close.

The toolbar appears with the modifications you made to it. The following image is an example of a custom toolbar displayed horizontally. Custom toolbars can be positioned within the workspace vertically too.

It is strongly recommended that you log out after making any toolbar modifications so the

changes to custom toolbars during the current session are permanently saved into the system. Should the workstation become disconnected without you properly logging off, those alterations would be lost, forcing you to have to repeat the modifications.

Custom Toolbars

Creating a Shortcut Button

Shortcut buttons can be created on any custom toolbar in iNEWS. Customization is not permitted on the standard toolbars.

These buttons can be used to shorten tasks, such as initiate macros, opening sessions, or navigating to specific locations in the database. The procedure in this section covers the button creation for all possible options. For information on an alternative procedure for creating a “navigation shortcut button”, see

If you just created the toolbar, and the Toolbars dialog box is already open, you can skip steps 1

and 2, and begin with step 3.

To create a shortcut button:

1. Select View > Toolbars, or right-click on any customizable iNEWS toolbar.

The Toolbars dialog box opens.

“Creating a Navigation Shortcut Button” on page 118.

2. Click the check box next to the customizable toolbar you want to work with.

3. Click Customize.

The Customize Toolbar opens.

Custom Toolbars

4. Select Text Labels if you want your customized shortcut buttons to have text titles.

After selecting the Text Labels check box, you can modify the width of the shortcut buttons, such

as changing the size of the default width of 16 pixels to a larger size of 43 pixels.

5. Click Add.

The Customize Toolbar Button dialog box opens.

Custom Toolbars

6. In the Name field, enter a button name.

The name you type here will appear on the button if you select the Text Labels check box in the

Customize Toolbar dialog box.

7. In the Tooltip Text field, enter a description for the button.

This description appears on-screen when the mouse pointer rests on the button.

Custom Toolbars

8. In the Action section, click one of the following radio buttons to select it:

Button Action

Navigate to: Enter the directory path of the queue you want the button to open. You can

also click the queue in the Directory panel and drag it into this field.

For more information on creating this button for navigation to projects or facets, see

Session: Select the session you want the button to open.

Command Line: Type the keyboard shortcut or name for the command or program you want

the button to open. For instance:

“Creating a Navigation Shortcut Button” on page 118.

iexplore.exe

Options: Type an additional Web address or filename to open, such as

Macro: Type the macro commands you want the button to perform. For more

information on writing macros, see

The information in Options is dependent on data supplied in the Command Line. For instance,

you cannot type notepad.exe, which is the Notepad program, in the Command Line and then type

“Creating a Macro” on page 174.

www.avid.com

the name of a DOC file, such as script.doc, in Options because Notepad cannot open Word DOC files. (Notepad can be used to open TXT files and view the source of HTML files.)

9. In the Image field, click one of the following radio buttons to select it:

Button Action

Predefined List: Select an image from the list provided in the Customize Toolbar Button

dialog box.

User defined: Browse through directories to find a bitmap image of your own. See

“Shortcut Button Images” on page 57 for more information about these

images.

10. Click OK.

The new button appears in the Current Buttons list of the Configure Shortcut Bar dialog box.

11. Click OK again.

The Toolbars dialog box opens.

12. Click the check box next to the new toolbar.

The new toolbar opens in the main window.

13. Click Close to return to the main window.

Shortcut Button Images

Custom toolbars have shortcut buttons that, like standard toolbar buttons, require some type of image or icon used to represent the button’s purpose. When creating a shortcut button, you can select an image that will appear on the button from the standard iNEWS list, or you can import an image. The same image can be used on several buttons.

If you choose to import your own image, the image must meet the following requirements:

• File format is Device Independent Bitmap (DIB)

• Bitmap is 16 pixels wide by 15 pixels high

• No more than 8 bits per pixel, uncompressed

• Background pixels must have the RGB value of (192, 176, 192)

The bitmap images will not be visible to multiple users at multiple workstations unless the

bitmaps are loaded in the same place on every workstation or in a shared network directory.

Custom Toolbars

5 Working with Queues

A queue is an area of the database that contains related stories, such as wire stories or a show rundown of scripts. The name assigned to a queue should identify its contents. Whatever a queue’s contents, the detailed information of each story is visible only in the Story panel. Use the Queue panel to manage stories in a queue, such as the order, and so forth.

A special type of queue known as search queues can be created to store pre-defined queries of

indexed queues. For information on this type of queue, see “Search Queues” on page 197.

The following topics provide more information about queues:

Changing Forms for Viewing Queues

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• Changing the Width of a Queue Form Field

• Easy Locking a Queue

• Key Locking a Queue

• Moving a Queue

• Opening a Queue

• Refreshing a Queue

• Searching for Text in a Queue

• Specifying a Destination Queue

• Unlocking a Queue

• Using Abstract Display in Queue

• Using Currency Total

• Viewing Queue Properties

Changing Forms for Viewing Queues

Anytime a user opens a queue, it is displayed using its default queue form. The system administrator sets up the default. A user can choose to display a queue’s contents in the Queue panel using a different form.

Changing the Width of a Queue Form Field

When a user has changed forms for a queue, they can return to the default form by exiting the queue and reopening it.

You can only change forms for a queue when your cursor is in the Queue panel.

To change the form you use to view a queue’s contents:

1. Select View > Use Forms > Forms.

2. Select the form you want to use.

3. Click OK.

To return to the default form:

t Select View > Use Forms > Normal.

Changing the Width of a Queue Form Field

Occasionally, you might need to change the width of a form field in the Queue panel to view all the information in a column. This change will last only as long as you are in the queue, and cannot be saved or viewed by other users. Only your system administrator can make permanent changes to forms.

To change the width of a queue form field:

1. Open the queue you want to change.

For more information, see

2. In the Queue panel, locate the field you want to widen or narrow and click it.

3. Move the cursor to the edge of the form field. When the cursor changes to a cross, click and drag the column until it is as wide or narrow as you want it.

Easy Locking a Queue

Easy lock a queue when you want to limit other people’s access to a queue while you are working in it. Easy lock limits access to your user name. This means that only someone signed on with your user ID can open the queue after it has been easy locked. Remember, though, that your system administrator can access your locked queue.

To easy lock a queue:

1. Open the queue you want to lock.

For more information, see

2. Select Tools > Lock Queue.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

The User Lock Queue dialog box opens.

3. Click the Easy Lock check box.

4. Click Lock.

The queue you selected is now locked, and only you can open it.

Key Locking a Queue

Key lock a queue when you want to limit other people’s access to a queue while you are working in it. Unlike easy locking a queue, however, anyone who knows the "key" can open the queue you key locked.

Key Locking a Queue

Your system administrator can access any key-locked queue at any time.

To key lock a queue:

1. Open the queue you want to lock.

For more information, see

2. Select Tools > Lock Queue.

The User Lock Queue dialog box opens.

3. Create a "key" by entering a password between 1 and 12 characters.

The key can contain numbers, letters, and some punctuation marks. As you enter the key, asterisks replace the text you are typing. This is to secure your key from others.

4. Click Lock.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

The Confirm Key dialog opens.

5. Re-enter your key to confirm the code.

The queue you selected is now locked, and can only be opened by individuals who know the key.

Moving a Queue

When you move a queue, you remove its contents, such as stories, from their original directory and add them to the destination directory. The queue itself is not moved. Any queue that is locked or requires write-permission will be copied rather than moved.

Moving a Queue

To move a queue:

1. Click the queue you want to move.

2. Press and hold the Shift key, and drag the queue to the destination directory.

The queue’s contents are moved to the destination directory.

Opening a Queue

Queues are located within directories in the Directory panel. Open a queue when you want to work with the stories in it.

In iNEWS, you can open a queue in two ways:

• When you open a queue from the Directory panel, you must first open directories and subdirectories where the queue resides.

• When you open a queue using the Go To menu, you type the path to the queue you want to open rather than clicking in the Directory panel until you locate the queue.

Refreshing a Queue

To open a queue from the Directory panel:

1. In the Directory panel, double-click the directory containing the queue you want to open, or click the plus (+) sign next to the directory to expand it.

A list of queues, and possibly subdirectories, appears.

2. Do one of the following:

t If the queue resides in a subdirectory, first double-click the subdirectory to expand it and

then double-click the queue to open it.

t If the queue resides in the directory you just opened, double-click the queue to open it.

To open a queue using the Go To menu:

1. Select Go To > Destination.

The Goto Queue or Folder dialog box opens.

2. In the Destination drop-down list, click the queue you want to open.

3. Click OK.

The queue and all the stories within it appear.

Refreshing a Queue

While you are working in a queue, other users may also be adding, deleting, renaming or rearranging stories within the same queue. To see any changes that have been made to a queue by others, you will need to refresh the queue periodically to update the information in it.

To refresh a queue:

t Choose Refresh from the View menu (or press F5).

Pressing the up arrow key when the cursor is at the top of a non-refresh queue will refresh the

queue.

The queue is updated and displays any changes that have been made since you opened the queue.

Searching for Text in a Queue

To search for text in a queue:

1. Open the queue you want to work with.

Searching for Text in a Queue

For more information, see

2. Select Edit > Find (or press Ctrl+F).

The Find dialog box opens.

3. In the Next Story Containing the Text field, enter the text you want to search for.

4. In the Search only in section, click a radio button to limit the parameters of your search.

5. Click Find.

The selection box moves to the first occurrence of the search text and highlights the text.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

Specifying a Destination Queue

You can quickly move between queues by using the Go To option.

To specify a destination queue:

1. Select Go To > Destination.

The Go To Queue or Folder dialog box opens.

2. Select a path from the Destination list, or type the path of the queue you want to open.

Use periods to separate the directory names (for example: "show.6p.rundown"). If typing the name, the system will automatically complete the directory or queue name as soon as it detects a match. These destinations will be held in memory during the current session and can be selected again by clicking the drop-down arrow. The destinations are cleared from memory when the user logs out.

3. Click OK.

Unlocking a Queue

Unlock a queue when you no longer want to prevent another user from accessing the queue.

Unlocking a Queue

To unlock a queue:

1. Open the directory containing the queue you want to unlock.

2. In the Directory panel, click the locked queue.

3. Select Tools > Unlock Queue.

The User Unlock Queue dialog box opens.

4. Do one of the following:

t If you key locked the queue, enter the key in the Key field.

t If you easy locked the queue, click the Easy Lock box.

5. Click Unlock.

Using Abstract Display in Queue

The Abstract Display in Queue feature gives you the ability to display a selected number of lines of story body for each story in the queue view.

To enable abstract display in queue:

1. Select Tools > Options > Preferences.

2. Click on the Layout tab.

3. Click in the Preview Lines - Use Default check box.

4. Click OK.

5. To check the number of preview lines defined, right-click in the queue and select Queue Properties to bring up the Queue Properties dialog and click on the User Interface tab.

Preview Lines shows the number of lines defined.

6. Select View > Story Preview to temporarily change the number of preview lines.

If you leave the queue you are on and return to it, the preview lines setting returns to the default.

The Story Preview dialog opens.

Using Abstract Display in Queue

7. Click in the Lines to preview text box and type a new number.

8. Click OK to register your change.

If you click on the Default button the queue’s Property default will be selected.

Using Currency Total

Currency total allows you to click on individual cells or full columns in the Queue panel and total these items.

Viewing Queue Properties

To use currency total:

1. Click on the cells you want to total in the Queue panel (use the Ctrl key to select several rows or columns simultaneously).

2. Right-click in the Queue panel, and select Total to Clipboard.

The total= appears in a tooltip with the sum of the values in the selected cells or columns.

The total of the cells or columns selected is copied to the clipboard.

Cells can contain currency or decimal numbers but should not be used with date or time values.

Viewing Queue Properties

You can view queue properties that are both administrator-controlled—such as sort characteristics and printing capabilities—and user-controlled, such as production lock.

You do not need to open a queue to view its properties. Right-click on any queue in the Directory

panel and select Properties from the pop-up menu. The Queue Properties dialog box appears.

For information on altering queue properties, see the iNEWS Newsroom Computer System Operations Manual.

To view queue properties from the Queue panel:

1. Open the queue whose properties you want to view.

For more information, see

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

2. Do one of the following:

t Right-click in the Queue panel and select Properties.

t Select Edit > Properties (or press Alt+Enter).

The Queue Properties dialog box opens.

MediaCentral | UX Integration

You can view information about queue forms, locks, sorting, and other properties associated with the queue. These properties are described in more detail in the Avid iNEWS Setup and

Configuration Guide.

If viewing properties for search queues, only two tabs appear: Forms and Groups. The others do

not apply to search queues.

3. Click Close when you are finished viewing the queue properties.

MediaCentral | UX Integration

For users who want to participate in the story-centric workflow initiated from an assignment in MediaCentral | UX, a field called Assignment must be added to the story forms used in that workflow. Once the Assignment field is created and the story is part of an assignment destination queue, you can click the assignment link, located in the story form’s Assignment field, to open an Assignment pane from MediaCentral | UX within the iNEWS workspace. The pane presents the assignment linked to the iNEWS story.

MediaCentral | UX Integration

When a user tries to launch the Assignment pane for the very first time, a Login screen will

appear to let the user enter login credentials for Avid MediaCentral | UX.

6 Working with Wires

The iNEWS system lets journalists monitor news wires from workstations and easily transition that information into stories for broadcast.

The following topics provide more information on wires in the iNEWS system:

Viewing Priority Wire Stories

•

• Viewing the Ten Most Recent Priority Wires

Viewing Priority Wire Stories

Priority wire stories include bulletins, urgents, and flashes. They are incoming wire stories coded as high priority by a wire service and placed in the priority queue. Each alert is color-coded depending on whether it is a bulletin, urgent, or flash. The color is determined by your system administrator.

When priority wire stories arrive, you are notified by an audio signal—usually a beep—and a flashing Urgent icon. This icon looks like a yellow lightning bolt with an arrow tip. You can see this icon in two locations of the user interface: on the Bulletin button in the Main toolbar or on the status bar at bottom right of the iNEWS window. In the status bar, the number of priority wire stories are also provided next to the Urgent icon.

For more information about what appears on the status bar, see

You can open the priority queue to view the stories at any time.

To open a priority wire story:

1. Do one of the following:

t Click the Bulletin button in the Main toolbar.

t Click the Urgent icon in the status bar.

t Select Go To > Priority Queue, or press F7.

A new workspace containing the priority queue opens, displaying a list of wire stories.

“Status Bar” on page 25.

Viewing the Ten Most Recent Priority Wires

2. Double-click which wire story you want to view.

Viewing the Ten Most Recent Priority Wires

Use Alert History when you want to know immediately what the ten most recent priority wire stories are.

To view the ten most recent priority wires:

1. Select Go To > Alerts History, or press Shift+F7.

The Alerts History dialog box opens with a list of the ten most recent priority wires.

2. Do one of the following:

t Select a wire story and click Open.

t Double-click a wire story to display it in your workspace.

7 Stories - Creation and Modification

You can create and edit stories from within a queue. When you create new stories, you can save them to the iNEWS Server for future review by you or others. The basics of editing stories includes: creating a story, opening existing stories, navigating through stories, and editing text in stories. In iNEWS, stories are created and edited in the Story panel and its three sub-panels.

The following topics provide more information about the creation and modification of stories:

Understanding the Story Panel

•

- Displaying Story Form Sub-Panel

- Displaying Instruction Sub-Panel

- Navigating the Story Panel

- Changing Tab Settings for Story Text Sub-panel

• Creating a New Story

• Opening a Story

• Changing Case of Text in Stories

• Formatting Text

• Searching for Text in a Story

• Replacing Text in a Story

• Using iNEWS Scratchpad

- Pasting Text from the iNEWS Scratchpad

- Erasing the iNEWS Scratchpad

• Inserting a Time Stamp

• Adding Page Breaks to a Story

• Spell-Checking a Story

• Saving a Story

Understanding the Story Panel

The Story panel is the area of the workspace where you write and edit stories. Stories are either scripted or unscripted. Unscripted stories do not contain production cues or machine control instructions. A scripted story is a production version of the story that contains instructions for broadcasting.

The Story panel can be divided into as many as three sub-panels, which display the various information that is found within scripted and unscripted stories:

• Story Form - located across the top of the Story panel

• Story Text - located on the bottom (right side) of the Story panel.

• Instruction - located on the bottom (left side) of the Story panel.

The Story Text sub-panel is the only one that is always visible. Displaying either of the other two is optional.

Understanding the Story Panel

Sub-panel Description

Story Form The Story Form sub-panel contains fields for data that can also

appear in the rundown’s Queue panel, such as a script’s slug or story title, Video ID, status, etc.

The system manager defines the content and layout of the form fields, which can be text fields or drop-down lists of predefined options. Some fields may also be read only. Although you can change the appearance of some fields during a session, you cannot save these changes.

Sub-panel Description

Story Text The Story Text sub-panel contains the text or script of the story and is

the only part that is always displayed as part of the Story panel. This area is blank when you create a new story. As you type, the text automatically wraps to the next line and scrolls down to keep the current line visible on the screen.

Instruction The Instruction sub-panel contains production cues or machine

control data for still store, video, and character generator devices. These instructions appear for scripted stories only.

Displaying Story Form Sub-Panel

The Story Form sub-panel is typically visible for both scripted and unscripted stories; however, you can hide it to conserve space.

To hide the Story Form sub-panel:

t Select Story > Hide Form Area.

t Right click in the Story Form sub-panel and select Hide Form Area.

Understanding the Story Panel

To show a hidden Story Form sub-panel:

t Select Story > Show Form Area.

Displaying Instruction Sub-Panel

The Instruction sub-panel, which appears to the left of the Story Text sub-panel when displayed, is typically hidden for unscripted stories and is only pertinent when writing or editing scripts that contain production cues and machine control instructions. You can display it at any time, regardless of whether the story contains such instructions, or hide it to conserve space.

To hide the Instruction sub-panel:

t Right click in the Instruction or Story Text sub-panels and select Hide Production Cues.

To show a hidden Instruction sub-panel:

t Right click in the Story Text sub-panel and select Show Production Cues.

The Instruction sub-panel will automatically appear whenever you add a production cue marker

to a story.

Navigating the Story Panel

Various keystroke combinations are available for navigating within the Story panel.

To scroll through a story’s text:

t Press Ctrl+Up Arrow

t Press Ctrl+Down Arrow

If your computer’s mouse has a scroll wheel, you can roll the wheel towards you to scroll down

and away from you to scroll up. If you want the cursor to move, use the Up and Down Arrow keys

To navigate to the first or last production cue, ensure the cursor is in the Instruction sub-panel, then:

t Press Ctrl+Page Up to go to the first production cue in a script.

t Press Ctrl+Page Down to go to the last production cue in a script.

To navigate through the production cues, ensure the cursor is positioned within a production cue, then:

t Press Tab to go to the next production cue.

t Press Shift+Tab to go to the previous production cue.

Changing Tab Settings for Story Text Sub-panel

Tab stops are the measurement by which the cursor will indent on a line when the user presses the Tab key. Indentation settings determine left and right margins for text in the Story Text sub-panel, as well as any indentation for first line of paragraphs.

Understanding the Story Panel

The Tabs option allows a user to change tab stop and indentation settings for their Story Text sub-panel. After these are set, they are part of that user’s preferences.

To change settings for tab stops:

1. Select Format > Tabs.

The Tabs and Indentation dialog box opens.

Creating a New Story

The Tabs option will only appear enabled in the Format menu when there is a story open in the

Story panel and your cursor is located in the Story Text sub-panel.

2. In the Tab stops section, type the length that a tab should indent, such as

3. Click Set.

4. Click OK.

To change settings for indentations:

1. Select Format > Tabs.

The Tabs and Indentation dialog box opens.

2. In the Indentation section, type the length you want for margins or indentation in the appropriate field, such as

3. Click OK.

Creating a New Story

In addition to opening existing stories, you can create new stories in a queue.

To create a story:

1. Open the queue in which you want to create a story.

2. Position your cursor in the queue below where you want the new story created.

3. Do one of the following:

0.5”

for the first line of each paragraph.

0.5”

t Select File > New Story.

t Press Ctrl+N.

t Press the Insert key.

A new queue entry appears in the Queue panel as a blank row, and a blank story appears in the Story panel.

4. In the Slug column of the Queue panel, enter the new story’s title.

5. Enter any other important information in the remaining columns for the new story.

6. In the Story panel, enter the story’s text.

Avid iNEWS supports the use of hyperlinks in the story body. Links can be in the form of http://

or www. E-mail addresses are also recognized. A user preference is available, defining whether clicked links will open into an Internet Explorer workspace within the iNEWS application or into the user‘s default browser outside of the iNEWS application.

Creating Story Links

When the cursor is on a line in the Queue panel or in the Story Text sub-panel, the “Copy story link to clipboard” option is available in both the context menu and Story menu. When this option is selected, it creates a story link on the user’s clipboard, which can be pasted into another story. You may also press Shift+Ctrl+K to create a link.

Opening a Story

Story links appear as: new workspace displaying the linked story.

inews://<server>/<path>/<story>

Opening a Story

In iNEWS, you can open any unlocked stories in a queue. Open a story when you want to view, edit, or delete information in the story.

To open a story:

1. Open the queue containing the story you want to open.

For more information, see

A list of stories appears in the Queue panel.

2. Click a story to open it in the Story panel.

If your have zoomed in to the Queue panel, you can open a story by double-clicking on the

selector button to left of the story you want to open.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

Changing Case of Text in Stories

There are four case formats for text within a story:

. Clicking the link will create a

Format Description

Upper case Changes case so all letters are capitalized.

Lower case Changes case so all letters are lower case.

Title case Changes case so the first letter of each word is capitalized. This can be useful for

character generator (CG) data, since many stations type their CGs in title-case format.

Sentence case Changes case so the first letter of the first word at the beginning of each sentence

is capitalized.

To capitalize all letters of a selected portion of text, do the following:

1. Highlight the text you want to change.

2. Do one of the following:

t Select Format > Case > UPPER CASE.

t Press Alt+O, then S, then U.

To lower case all letters of a selected portion of text, do the following:

1. Highlight the text you want to change.

2. Do one of the following:

t Select Format > Case > lower case.

t Press Alt+O, then S, then L.

To title case all letters of a selected portion of text, do the following:

1. Highlight the text you want to change.

2. Do one of the following:

t Select Format > Case > Title Case.

t Press Alt+O, then S, then T.

Formatting Text

To sentence case all letters of a selected portion of text, do the following:

1. Highlight the text you want to change.

2. Do one of the following:

t Select Format > Case > Sentence Case.

t Press Alt+O, then S, then S.

Formatting Text

You can format text in a story when you want to give it characteristics different from the rest of the text. For instance, use different formats to indicate script directions, instructions for the crew, or information for news presenters.

You format options are described in the following table:

Format Keystroke Description

Select Typeface Selecting a different typeface is a user customization that only

applies to your workstation. Selecting a different typeface has no effect on printing.

Searching for Text in a Story

Format Keystroke Description

Boldface Ctrl+B Displays and prints bold text.

Italic Ctrl+I Displays and prints italic text.

Underline Ctrl+U Displays and prints underlined text.

Normal Ctrl+Alt+N Displays and prints normal text.

Presenter Ctrl+Alt+P Identifies instructions for the news presenters. Presenter text can

appear on the teleprompter, but it does not get timed or go to closed captioning.

Closed Captioning

To format text:

1. Open the queue that contains the story you want to work with.

For more information, see “Opening a Queue” on page 61

2. Click a story to select it.

3. In the Story panel, highlight the text you want to format.

4. Do one of the following:

t Click on the appropriate formatting button located in the Format toolbar, if displayed.

t Select Format, and then select the format you want to apply to the text.

If you find that text placed in tables runs together and doesn’t display properly, select a

non-proportional typeface, such as Courier or Arial Monospaced, for viewing the story.

Ctrl+Alt+C Identifies text that can be used for closed captioning.

Searching for Text in a Story

Use the Find command to find individual occurrences of text within a story (for example, to find all occurrences of the misspelled word seperate and change them to separate).

To search for text in a story:

1. Open the queue containing the story you want to work with.

For more information, see

2. Click a story to select it and then click in the Story panel.

3. Select Edit > Find (or press Ctrl+F).

The text Find dialog box opens.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

Replacing Text in a Story

4. In the Find what field, enter the text you want to search for.

5. If you want the search to find text that exactly matches the word(s) you entered, click the Match whole word only check box.

6. If you want the search to find only words that match the case you designated, click the Match case check box.

7. Click Find Next.

The first occurrence of the search text is highlighted. If the search is unsuccessful, the message "Finished Searching the story" appears.

You can press the Esc key to cancel a Find command search process within a few seconds.

Replacing Text in a Story

You can search for text in a story and replace it with alternative text that you specify. For example if you write a story containing the word "Nelson" and you discover that the correct spelling of the name is "Neilson," you can use the Replace command to make the correction.

To replace text in a story:

1. Open the queue containing story with which you want to work.

For more information, see

2. Click a story to select it.

3. Click anywhere in the Story panel.

4. Select Edit > Replace.

The Replace dialog box opens.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

Using iNEWS Scratchpad

5. In the Find what field, enter the text you are searching for.

6. In the Replace with field, type the replacement text exactly as you want it to appear.

7. To ignore occurrences of the text inside a longer word ("honey," and not "Mahoney," for example), click the Match whole word only check box.

8. To ignore occurrences of text with a different case ("US" and not "us," for example), click the Match case check box.

9. Click Find Next to go to the story’s first occurrence of the text you specified.

10. Do one of the following:

t Click Replace to change the highlighted text and search for the next occurrence.

t Click Find Next to skip to the next occurrence without changing the highlighted text.

t Click Replace All to replace all occurrences of the specified text with the new text.

Using iNEWS Scratchpad

The iNEWS Scratchpad feature lets you copy multiple items, store them, and then paste them into a story. Copy text to it when you want to gather information to insert into a story.

To copy text to the iNEWS Scratchpad:

1. Open the queue that contains the story you want to work with.

For more information, see

2. Click a story to select it.

3. In the story panel, select the text to be copied.

4. Select Edit > Scratchpad > Copy to Scratchpad (or press Shift+Ctrl+C).

The text is copied. Continue selecting and copying text until all the text you want to copy has been placed on the scratch pad.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

Pasting Text from the iNEWS Scratchpad

When you have copied text to the iNEWS Scratchpad, you can retrieve that text from it and place the text into a story.

To paste text from the iNEWS Scratchpad:

1. Open the queue that contains the story with which you want to work.

Inserting a Download Link

For more information, see

2. Click a story to select it.

3. In the Story panel, click in the story where you want to paste the text.

4. Select Edit > Scratchpad > Paste from Scratchpad (or press Shift+Ctrl+V).

The text is pasted into the text area you selected.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

Erasing the iNEWS Scratchpad

You can erase the iNEWS Scratchpad after you have pasted text from it into another story.

To clear the iNEWS Scratchpad:

t Select Edit > Scratchpad > Erase Scratchpad (or press Shift+Ctrl+Delete).

All of the text is deleted from it.

Inserting a Download Link

If your iNEWS system is setup to integrate with a file server, then users can upload small-sized files, such as PDFs, DOCs, or JPGs, to a file server and then include a download link to the file within an iNEWS story. For instance, a download link to something on the file server might look like this: http://fileserver/iNEWS/pressrelease.pdf.

Clicking on such a link in a story downloads the file from the file server to the user’s workstation.

To insert a download link into an iNEWS story:

t After uploading the file to the fileserver, enter the URL path to the file into the iNEWS story.

Inserting a Time Stamp

A user can insert the current time, based on their workstation clock, into a story using the Time Stamp function.

The time stamp will be inserted at the current cursor location.

To insert a time stamp, do one of the following:

t Press Ctrl+T

t Select Edit > Time Stamp.

Adding Page Breaks to a Story

You can manually force page breaks into a story where you want them to appear. Usually, you add page breaks when you are preparing to print the story.

To add a page break when printing to a local printer:

1. Open the queue containing the story you want to work with.

Adding Page Breaks to a Story

For more information, see

2. Select a story, and open it into the Story panel.

3. Do one of the following:

t Press Ctrl+Alt+B.

t Select Story > Page Break.

A visible page break for local printing is added.

Spell-Checking a Story

The iNEWS system allows you to check the spelling in a story to ensure that it has no spelling errors.

To spell-check a story:

1. Open the queue containing the story with which you want to work.

For more information, see

2. Click a story to select it and then click at the beginning of the story in the Story panel.

Spell check begins at wherever the cursor is. To check the spelling in production cues, you have

to click at the beginning of the first production cue in the story.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

3. Select Tools > Spelling.

The Spelling dialog opens, with the first unrecognized word highlighted.

Spell-Checking a Story

4. Use the spelling tool to check all words in the story.

t If a word is correct in the story but not recognized by the spelling tool, click Ignore, or

Ignore All to ignore all occurrences of the word in the story.

t If a word is incorrectly spelled in the story, enter the correct spelling of the word in the

Change To field or click a suggested word. Then click Change, or Change All to make a global replacement of the word in the story.

t If a word is correct in the story, is unrecognizable by the spelling tool, but is used often

in many stories (your last name, for example), click Add to add it to your custom dictionary.

When you have checked the entire story, a message box opens.

5. Click OK.

Creating a Custom Dictionary

Each user has a custom dictionary, which can be used to store words. These words are considered additional listings to the standard dictionary installed with the software, and are used by the system's spell checker. Each custom dictionary is associated with a specific user, and is applied only when that user is logged on.

To create a custom dictionary, or add words to a custom dictionary:

1. Click the Tools menu.

2. Select Custom Dictionary. The Custom Dictionary dialog box will appear.

3. Type in your list of words, pressing Enter between each one.

4. Click OK.

To delete a word from your custom dictionary:

1. Click the Tools menu.

2. Select Custom Dictionary. The Custom Dictionary dialog box will appear.

Saving a Story

3. Select a word in the listing, and delete it.

4. Click OK.

Saving a Story

Whenever you create or modify a story, you should save your changes frequently.

To save a story:

t Do one of the following:

- Select File > Save Story.

- Press Ctrl+S.

- Click the Save Story button on the Main toolbar.

The system is designed to automatically save your changes when you navigate out of a story.

Saving a Message as a Story

You can save a message or messages from the Message History dialog box as a story in the iNEWS system. For more information on how to do this, see

page 159

Saving a Story

“Saving a Message as a Story” on

8 Moving Stories

When working in iNEWS, you will find it is often necessary to move or duplicate text, entire stories, and entire queues from one location to another.

The following topics provide more information about the moving of stories or queues within the iNEWS database:

Selecting a Story

•

- Selecting Several Stories in a Sequence

- Selecting Several Stories out of Sequence

• Copying a Story

- Copying Several Stories in a Sequence

- Copying Several Stories out of Sequence

• Mailing a Copy of a Story

• Moving a Story

- Moving Several Stories in a Sequence

- Moving Several Stories out of Sequence

• Grouping Stories

• Importing a Story

• Exporting a Story

- Exporting Multiple Stories

• Mailing a Copy of a Story

Selecting a Story

Select a story any time you want to open, move, copy, mail, float, or delete the story.

To select a story:

1. Open the queue containing the story you want to select.

For more information, see

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

2. In the Queue panel, locate the story you want to select and click the selector button to the left of the story.

While in the Queue panel, holding the Shift key down and pressing the Space bar can also be

used to select a story.

The text of the highlighted story appears in the Story panel.

Selecting Several Stories in a Sequence

At times, you might want to select many stories grouped together in a Queue panel. You might, for instance, want to move or copy them simultaneously rather than selecting each one manually.

To select several stories in a sequence:

1. Open the queue containing the stories you want to select.

Selecting a Story

For more information, see

2. In the Queue panel, locate the first story in the sequence of stories you want to select and click the selector button to the left of that story.

3. Move to the last story in the sequence of stories and, while pressing the Shift key, click the selector button to the left of that story.

All the stories between those you selected manually are also selected. Now you can move, copy, or otherwise work with those selected stories.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

Selecting Several Stories out of Sequence

At times, you might want to select many stories within a queue that are located within in a Queue panel but are not grouped together. You may, for instance, want to move or copy them simultaneously rather than selecting each one manually.

To select several stories out of sequence:

1. Open the queue containing the stories you want to select.

For more information, see

2. In the Queue panel, locate the first story you want to select and click the selector button to the left of that story.

3. While pressing the Ctrl key, click the selector button to the left each story you want to highlight.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

All the stories you selected manually are highlighted. Now you can move, copy, or otherwise work with those selected stories.

Copying a Story

You can copy a story from one queue to another within a workspace or across multiple workspaces. When you copy a story, you duplicate the story from the source queue and add it to the destination queue. The source queue remains unchanged in the database.

To copy a story:

1. Open the queue containing the story you want to copy.

Copying a Story

For more information, see

2. In the Queue panel, highlight the story by doing one of the following:

t Click on the selector button next to the story you want to copy.

t Press Shift+Space.

3. Click again and, holding the selector button, drag the story to the destination queue.

The story is copied to the destination queue.

You can also copy a story by selecting Edit > Copy To, or by pressing Ctrl+D after selecting the

story to copy from one queue to another destination.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

Copying Several Stories in a Sequence

At times, you might want to copy multiple stories grouped together in a Queue panel. You might, for instance, want to copy them all together rather than copying each one manually.

To copy several stories in a sequence:

1. Open the queue containing the stories you want to copy.

For more information, see

2. In the Queue panel, locate the first story in the sequence of stories you want to copy and click the selector button to the left of that story.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

3. Move to the last story in the sequence of stories and, while pressing the Shift key, click the selector button to the left of that story.

All the stories between those you selected manually are also selected.

4. Do one of the following:

t Select Edit > Copy To.

t Press Ctrl+D.

The Copy Stories To Queue dialog box opens.

Copying a Story

5. In the Destination Queue field, select a queue from the menu or enter the destination queue’s directory path, such as:

ARCHIVE.2014.JUN

6. In the Distribution Code field, select a code from the menu or enter the code you want to assign to the story.

7. Click OK.

The stories are copied to the destination queue.

Copying Several Stories out of Sequence

At times, you may want to select multiple stories within a queue that are located within in a Queue panel but are not grouped together. You may, for instance, want to copy them all together rather than copying each one manually.

To copy several stories out of sequence:

1. Open the queue containing the stories you want to copy.

Copying a Story

For more information, see “Opening a Queue” on page 61

2. In the Queue panel, locate the first story you want to copy and click the selector button to the left of that story.

3. While pressing the Ctrl key, click the selector button to the left each story you want to highlight

All the stories you selected manually are highlighted.

4. Do one of the following:

t Select Edit > Copy To.

t Press Ctrl+D.

The Copy Stories To Queue dialog box opens.

5. In the Destination Queue field, select a queue from the menu or enter the destination queue’s directory path, such as:

ARCHIVE.2014.JUN

6. In the Distribution Code field, select a code from the menu or enter the code you want to assign to the story.

7. Click OK.

The stories are copied to the destination queue.

Moving a Story

When you move a story, you remove it from its original location and place it in its new location. Stories can be moved within a single queue or between queues.

For instance, as stories in a rundown queue develop, the order they will be presented in a newscast can change. Authorized individuals (usually production staff) can rearrange the order of stories in a queue by moving them around in the Queue panel until the order works for that newscast. Another possibility is when a story, written for one show, will actually be used in another show, in which case a user could move the story from the original rundown queue to the other.

You must have write permission to both the source and destination locations to move a story or stories. Any stories that are locked or require write-permission will be copied rather than moved.

Moving a Story

To move a story:

1. Open the queue containing the story you want to move.

For more information, see

2. In the Queue panel, click the selector button to the left of the story you want to move.

If your cursor is on a row, you can select entire row by pressing Shift+Spacebar. If the row is

within a story group, holding the Shift down and pressing Spacebar twice will select all stories (rows) in the story group.

3. Do one of the following:

t Drag the story to the new location within the queue.

t Press and hold the Shift key, then drag the story to another destination queue in the

Directory panel.

t If you have a second workspace open, you can drag the story from its original queue to a

destination queue opened in the other workspace.

If stories are dragged to a queue in a position within a story group, the stories will be added to

that story group. For more information on story grouping, see “Grouping Stories” on page 95.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

The story is moved to its new location. The backtime of each story in a Queue panel is automatically adjusted to reflect any changes made when the order of stories is changed.

Another method of moving stories in a queue is to cut and paste them from the Queue panel,

using the editing buttons on the toolbar or Ctrl+X to cut and Ctrl+V to paste.

You can also use Ctrl+M and type the pathname of the destination queue to move a story between queues. See “Moving Several Stories in a Sequence” on page 92 and “Moving Several

Stories out of Sequence” on page 93 for more information.

Moving Several Stories in a Sequence

At times, you might want to move many stories grouped together in a Queue panel. You can move a group of stories easily in iNEWS. Any stories that are locked or require write-permission will be copied rather than moved.

To move several stories in a sequence:

1. Open the queue containing the stories you want to move.

Moving a Story

For more information, see

2. In the Queue panel, locate the first story in the sequence of stories you want to move and click the selector button to the left of that story.

3. Move to the last story in the sequence of stories and, while pressing the Shift key, click the selector button to the left of that story.

All the stories between those you selected manually are also selected.

4. Do one of the following:

t Select Edit > Move To.

t Press Ctrl+M.

The Move Stories To Queue dialog box opens.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

Drag and drop is another alternative that may be used to move stories. See “Moving a Story” on

page 91 for more information.

5. In the Destination Queue field, select a queue name from the menu or enter a queue name, such as:

6. In the Distribution Code field, select a story from the menu or enter the code you want to assign to the story.

7. Click OK.

The stories are moved to the destination queue.

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Moving a Story

Moving Several Stories out of Sequence

At times, you might want to move many stories within a queue that are located within in a Queue panel but are not grouped together. You can move a group of stories easily in iNEWS. Any stories that are locked or require write-permission will be copied rather than moved.

To move several stories out of sequence:

1. Open the queue containing the stories you want to move.

For more information, see

2. In the Queue panel, locate the first story you want to move and click the selector button to the left of that story.

3. While pressing the Ctrl key, click the selector button to the left each story you want to highlight.

All the stories you selected manually are highlighted.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

4. Do one of the following:

t Select Edit > Move To.

t Press Ctrl+M.

The Move Stories To Queue dialog box opens.

Moving a Story

Drag and drop is another alternative that may be used to move stories. See “Moving a Story” on

page 91 for more information.

5. In the Destination Queue field, select a queue name from the menu or enter a queue name, such as:

6. In the Distribution Code field, select a story from the menu or enter the code you want to assign to the story.

7. Click OK.

The stories are moved to the destination queue.

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Grouping Stories

You can group stories within a queue for the purposes of linking them together. For instance, in a rundown, a producer may want to link the presenter’s intro and tag before and after a reporter’s package together as a story group. When stories in a queue can be grouped, a Story Group column will appear as the second column in the Queue panel located next to first column of selector buttons.

The following partial image of a rundown shows three story groups: the first with three stories about Education, the second with three stories about a gun ban, and the third with only two stories about an earthquake in Chile.

Grouping Stories

After a group is created, the group may be moved together within a queue or dragged and dropped from one queue to another. Stories may also be created within an existing group or removed from a story group.

To create a group from existing stories:

1. In the Queue panel, highlight two or more consecutive stories by doing one of the following:

t Click on the selector buttons next to the stories you want to group together.

t Press Shift+Space to select a row and then press the Up or Down Arrow buttons to

complete your selection of stories.

2. Do one of the following:

t Right-click and select Create Story Group.

t Select Tools > Create Story Group.

To add a story or stories to an existing group:

t Position your cursor within the group and create a new story. Creating a new story between

rows of a group will add the new story to that group.

t Drag and drop a story or selection of stories in between rows of a group.

Importing a Story

t If the story you want to add is located in the row directly above or below the group to which

you want to add it, use the selector buttons to select it along with the story group, then do one of the following:

- Select Tools > Create Story Group.

- Right-click and select Create Story Group.

To dissolve a group of stories:

t In the Queue panel, position your cursor on a story within the group and select Tools >

Dissolve Story Group.

t Right-click on any story within the group and select Dissolve Story Group.

To move a story group:

1. In the Queue panel, click on any square within the Story Group column (2nd column) to select the group.

2. Drag and drop the group into its new location.

You can drag and drop a story group anywhere within a single queue or from one queue to another in a different workspace and group associations are retained.

Using the selector buttons (1st column) to move a block of stories containing two or more stories

in a group will retain the story group association. If using the selector buttons to select a block of stories in which only one is in a group, moving the block will dissolve any story group association for that story.

To remove a story from a group:

t Click the story’s selector button, then drag it out of the group and to a new location in the

queue.

Importing a Story

You can import files from your PC to the iNEWS newsroom computer system. After the files are imported, they appear as stories in the active queue.

To import a story:

1. Open the queue into which you want to import a story.

For more information, see

2. In the Queue panel, click where you want to insert the imported story.

It will be inserted above the selected story.

3. Select File > Import Story.

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

The Import Story dialog box opens.

Exporting a Story

4. Select a location from the Look in list.

5. Select the "Rich Text” or “Text only” (RTF or TXT) file to import.

6. Click Open.

The imported story is inserted and its contents appear in the Story panel.

Exporting a Story

You can export a story or stories from the iNEWS database to your local hard drive. When the story has been exported as a file to your local hard drive, you can open it in other applications.

To export a story:

1. Open the queue from which you want to export a story.

For more information, see

2. Click the story you want to export.

3. Do one of the following:

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

Exporting a Story

t Select File > Export Story if you want to export just the information from the Story Text

panel (right-hand side of the Story panel).

t Select File > Export Story Extended if you want to export the production cues in the

Instruction sub-panel (left-hand side of the Story panel) as well as the information from the Story Text panel.

The Export Story dialog box opens.

4. Select a destination from the Save in list.

5. In the File Name field, enter the name under which you want to save the exported file.

6. Select either "Rich Text” or “Text only” (RTF or TXT) from the Save as type list.

7. Click Save (or press Ctrl+S).

The story is converted to the file type you selected and is exported to the destination you specified.

Exporting Multiple Stories

The steps are the same as exporting a single story, except that you select multiple stories in the queue, using the selection buttons in the Queue panel. This feature allows you to select and export all stories in a queue or selected segments. When exporting multiple stories, you will not

be prompted to save each story; rather, the system will save all stories automatically using their titles from iNEWS. If you specify a different filename in the Export Story dialog box, the system will use that name and append numbers, such as -1, -2, or -3, to distinguish between each subsequent story.

Mailing a Copy of a Story

You may want to pass along a story to another user of the system. Use the Mail option to copy a story to another user.

To mail a copy of a story:

1. 1.Open the queue containing the story you want to mail.

Mailing a Copy of a Story

For more information, see

2. In the Queue panel, click the story you want to mail.

3. Select Story > Mail.

A mail workspace opens with the story’s contents in the text area of a new mail message. You might have to close a workspace or rearrange the mail workspace to see the entire mail window.

4. In the To field, enter the name of the user to whom you want to send the story.

5. In the Subject field, enter a subject.

6. In the CC field, enter a user name if you want to send the copy to another user.

7. Click Send to send a copy of the story to the user.

You can also mail a story including the story’s form content and production cues by selecting

Mail Extended from the Story menu. When this is done, the form content and production cue instructions are sent as text with the story content. For instance, the example below shows story form content at the beginning, followed by the story text and production cues, which appear in triple angle brackets.

Page: B18

Shot: B2/C1

Tal: D/M

“Opening a Queue” on page 61.

Slug: LUNG-TREATMENT

Format: VO

Video ID: LUNG-TM

Vid Stat:

Status: READY

Mailing a Copy of a Story

Audio: 0:42

Backtime: 17:35:23

Date: 10/4/14 14:41:46

Mod by: dm58

WR: dm58

App.: dm58

Cumetime: 0:04:07

_______________________________________________________________

<<< ON CAM >>>

((ON CAM))

PROMISING RESEARCH RESULTS INDICATE A NEW PILL CALLED "TRACLEER" COULD TRANSFORM THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION, A RELATIVELY RARE BUT POTENTIALLY FATAL LUNG DISORDER.

<<< TAKE VO >>>

((TAKE VO))

<<< *CG 2LINE

PULMONARY HYPERTENSION

NEW TREATMENT >>>

THE ONLY TREATMENT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE HAS TO BE CONSTANTLY INFUSED INTO THE BLOOD VIA A PERMANENT TUBE IN A VEIN IN THE NECK OR CHEST THAT IS ATTACHED TO A PUMP STRAPPED TO THE BODY.

IN THIS WEEK’S ISSUE OF THE LANCET MEDICAL JOURNAL, SCIENTISTS DESCRIBE HOW PATIENTS WHO TOOK "TRACLEER" HAD DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENTS IN THEIR BLOOD TESTS, THEIR EXERCISE CAPACITY AND THEIR ABILITY TO DO EVERYDAY TASKS WITHOUT SHORTNESS OF BREATH.

"TRACLEER" IS IN THE FINAL STAGES OF APPROVAL BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION AND SHOULD BE AVAILABLE IN THE UNITED STATES IN A FEW MONTHS. EUROPEAN APPROVAL IS EXPECTED NEXT YEAR.

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Pinnacle Systems iNews - 2017.1 User’s Guide

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Contents

Using This Guide

Symbols and Conventions

If You Need Help

How to Order Documentation

Avid Training Services

1 iNEWS System

Newsroom System Overview

The iNEWS Workstation

The iNEWS Server

The iNEWS Community

Terms and Concepts

2 Getting Started

Logging In to iNEWS

The iNEWS Workstation’s Main Window

Status Bar

Displaying or Hiding the Status bar

iNEWS Navigation Made Easy

Using the Directory Panel

Opening a Directory

Closing a Directory

Using the Go To Menu

Using the Destination Command

Changing Your Password

Logging Out of iNEWS

3 The iNEWS Workspace

Overview of an iNEWS Workspace

Opening an iNEWS Workspace

Changing Workspace Color Settings

Working with Panels

Changing the Layout of Panels

Resizing a Panel in the Workspace

Zooming in on a Panel

Moving From Panel to Panel in Zoom Mode

Zooming out of a Panel

Displaying a Context Menu

Arranging Multiple Workspaces

Switching Between Workspaces

Closing a Workspace

Working with Multiple Monitors

4 Toolbars

Standard Toolbars

Displaying or Hiding a Toolbar

Moving a Toolbar

Custom Toolbars

Creating a Custom Toolbar

Modifying a Custom Toolbar

Creating a Shortcut Button

Shortcut Button Images

5 Working with Queues

Changing Forms for Viewing Queues

Changing the Width of a Queue Form Field

Easy Locking a Queue

Key Locking a Queue

Moving a Queue

Opening a Queue

Refreshing a Queue

Searching for Text in a Queue

Specifying a Destination Queue

Unlocking a Queue

Using Abstract Display in Queue

Using Currency Total

Viewing Queue Properties

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6 Working with Wires

Viewing Priority Wire Stories

Viewing the Ten Most Recent Priority Wires

7 Stories - Creation and Modification

Understanding the Story Panel

Displaying Story Form Sub-Panel

Displaying Instruction Sub-Panel

Navigating the Story Panel

Changing Tab Settings for Story Text Sub-panel

Creating a New Story

Creating Story Links

Opening a Story