Pinnacle Systems iNews - 5.0 User’s Guide

Avid® iNEWS

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Avid iNEWS v5.0 User’s Guide • 9329-65435-00 Rev A • Created 6/12/14 • 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

The iNEWS Workstation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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

The iNEWS Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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

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

Logging In to iNEWS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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

Status Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Displaying or Hiding the Status bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

iNEWS Navigation Made Easy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Using the Directory Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Opening a Directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Closing a Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Using the Go To Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Using the Destination Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Changing Your Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Logging Out of iNEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Chapter 3 The iNEWS Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Overview of an iNEWS Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Opening an iNEWS Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Changing Workspace Color Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Working with Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Changing the Layout of Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Resizing a Panel in the Workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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

Moving From Panel to Panel in Zoom Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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

Displaying a Context Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Arranging Multiple Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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

Closing a Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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

Chapter 4 Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Standard Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Displaying or Hiding a Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Moving a Toolbar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Custom Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Creating a Custom Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Modifying a Custom Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Creating a Shortcut Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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

Chapter 5 Working with Queues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Changing Forms for Viewing Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Changing the Width of a Queue Form Field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Easy Locking a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Key Locking a Queue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Moving a Queue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Opening a Queue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Refreshing a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Searching for Text in a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Specifying a Destination Queue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Unlocking a Queue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Using Abstract Display in Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Using Currency Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Viewing Queue Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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

Viewing Priority Wire Stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

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

Chapter 7 Stories - Creation and Modification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Understanding the Story Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Displaying Story Form Sub-Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Displaying Instruction Sub-Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Navigating the Story Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Changing Tab Settings for Story Text Sub-panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Creating a New Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Creating Story Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Opening a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Changing Case of Text in Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Formatting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Searching for Text in a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Replacing Text in a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Using iNEWS Scratchpad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Pasting Text from the iNEWS Scratchpad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Erasing the iNEWS Scratchpad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Inserting a Time Stamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

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

Spell-Checking a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Creating a Custom Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Saving a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

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

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

Selecting a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

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

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

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

Unlocking a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

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

Backing up a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

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

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

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

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

Chapter 10 iNEWS Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Overview of Projects and Facets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Creating Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Date Variables for Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Creating Facets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Creating a New Story inside a Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Associating Stories with Projects or Facets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Creating a Navigation Shortcut Button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Chapter 11 Scripted Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Displaying a Production Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Enabling Autoscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Adding a Production Cue to a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Adding a CG Production Cue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Adding a Video Production Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Adding a Still Store Production Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

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

Deleting a Production Cue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

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

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

Primary Machine Control Event Placeholder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

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

Unscripting a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

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

Producer Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

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

Tracking a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Chapter 13 Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

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

Local Printing a Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Local Printing a Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Chapter 14 Messages and Mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Checking User Names for Validity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Sending a Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Message Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Replying to a Message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Recalling a Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Saving a Message as a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Sending an Intersystem Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Sending Mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Reading Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Replying to Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Forwarding Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Deleting Mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Setting Mail Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Chapter 15 Sessions and Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Working with Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Customizing User Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Setting Session Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Setting Confirmation Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Setting Backup Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Setting Refresh Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Setting Layout Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Setting Search Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Chapter 16 Macros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Types of Macros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Creating a Macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Using the State Keys in Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Chapter 17 Searching in iNEWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Types of Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Basic Word Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Seek Queries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Indexed Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Pattern Matching Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Phrase Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

The Find/Find Next Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Find/Find Next Search String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Using Find/Find Next in the Story Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Using Find/Find Next in the Queue Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Using the Find All Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Find All Search String. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Find All Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Managing Your Favorite Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Date Variables for Searching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Using the Find Global Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Search Results Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Search Queues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Word Delimiters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Basic Proximity Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Field Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Searching Older Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Chapter 18 Local Databases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Local Database Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Forms and Print Styles for Local Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Local Database Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Creating a Local Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Logging into a Local Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Creating a Folder in Your Local Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Creating a Queue in Your Local Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Deleting a Folder or Queue from a Local Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Chapter 19 Connecting to a Remote Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Disconnecting from a Remote Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Appendix A System Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Directory Panel Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Message and Mail Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Queue Panel Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

Story Panel Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Project Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Workspace Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Search Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Appendix B Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Directory Panel Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Messaging and Mail Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Queue Panel Icons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

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.

Symbols and Conventions

Avid documentation uses the following symbols and conventions:

Symbol or Convention Meaning or Action

> This symbol indicates menu commands (and subcommands) in the

A note provides important related information, reminders, recommendations, and strong suggestions.

A caution means that a specific action you take could cause harm to your computer or cause you to lose data.

A warning describes an action that could cause you physical harm. Follow the guidelines in this document or on the unit itself when handling electrical equipment.

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.

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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

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• 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.

Newsroom System Overview

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.

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

Term Description

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

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.

Instruction Sub-Panel

Story Text Sub-Panel

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

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

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• 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.

“Local Databases” on page 202.

The iNEWS Workstation’s Main Window

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 “Changing Your Password” on page 32

- 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.

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 iNEWS Workstation’s Main Window

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.

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.

Component Description

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

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

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

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 iNEWS Workstation’s Main Window

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

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

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 34.

“Toolbars” on page 45.

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

The iNEWS Workstation’s Main Window

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 110.

iNEWS Navigation Made Easy

“Custom Toolbars” on page 50.

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.

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Pinnacle Systems iNews - 5.0 User’s Guide

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