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E Managing Traits at the Console
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To assign a mailbox to a queue, use:
dbtraits <queue name> mail <mailbox number> | <reserved mailbox name>
For instance, to assign mailbox 103 to the queue WIRES.KEYWORDS.HOCKEY, type:
dbtraits wires.keywords.hockey mail 103
The dis Column
The dis column of the list d output represents two traits in one column: the preview lines trait
(formerly known as display lines) and the refresh trait.
The format of the preview lines information at the console is:
SRPlo-LIsUGQSXWFiT sortfield purge dis mbox directory
Q-RP----I---QSXW--- TITLE P3.0 D1 - WIRES.ALL
The preview lines trait applies to lines previewed in the Queue panel of the iNEWS
Workstation. The value of a queue’s preview lines trait controls how many lines of each
story in the queue are displayed. The number in the dis column indicates the preview lines
setting. You can have a queue display as few as one line of each story or as many as 23 lines.
The second trait, refresh, is also listed under the dis column. Refresh controls whether the
system automatically updates your screen if you view a queue someone else is changing. If
the number begins with a D, the queue is not refreshed automatically; if it begins with an R,
it is refreshed automatically.
Preview Lines
To change the value of a queue’s preview lines trait, use:
dbtraits <queue name> dis <number of lines>
Because screens can display a maximum of 22 lines of a story at a time, that is the maximum
value used with this trait. The minimum value is 0, which would show no preview lines.
For instance, to give SHOW.RUNDOWNS a one-line display, type:
dbtraits show.rundown dis 1
SHOW.RUNDOWNS now has a one-line-per-story display.
In a one-line display, the first line on the screen is the top line of the form assigned to that
queue. The next 22 lines in the queue display the second line of each story’s form. Queues
that display more than one line per story begin with the top line of each story’s form.