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12 Confirming Functionality
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Testing Workflow
The person testing the system’s workflow should have a basic working knowledge of the
various systems that interact with Command, such as the newsroom computer system as well
as the Command client application.
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For basic user information on Avid iNEWS, iNEWS Command, or other integrated Avid
products, see the User’s Guides and help systems that accompany each product.
To test workflow:
1. Create an iNEWS rundown with stories that contain graphic and video events.
a. If you use hand-entered machine control events, test that by entering some into new
and existing stories.
b. If you are using a plug-in, such as Avid Deko Select or Avid Thunder Select, open
the plug-in and test it as well by using it to insert events into stories.
2. Load the rundown. (For Avid iNEWS, this means to turn on and load the monitor
server.)
3. At a Command Workstation, start the Command client application.
4. Confirm that the newsroom playlist associated with that rundown appears in the Playlist
Explorer.
5. Open the playlist.
6. Lock all channel groups.
7. Play video and graphic events. Ensure that they appear as expected on the video
monitors, and check to make certain that available and unavailable items are correctly
reported.
8. Rearrange stories in the newsroom rundown and ensure that the items in the newsroom
playlist at the Command Workstation adjust accordingly.