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Table Of Contents
- Avid iNEWS User's Guide
- Contents
- Using This Guide
- iNEWS System
- Getting Started
- The iNEWS Workspace
- Toolbars
- 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
- Working with Wires
- Stories - Creation and Modification
- Moving Stories
- Stories - Protection
- iNEWS Projects
- Scripted Stories
- Displaying a Production Cue
- Enabling Autoscript
- Adding a Production Cue to a Story
- Adding a CG Production Cue
- Adding a Video Production Cue
- Adding a Still Store Production Cue
- Moving a Production Cue
- Deleting a Production Cue
- Using Script Templates
- Using CG Title Entry
- Primary Machine Control Event Placeholder
- Using MOS Placeholders
- Unscripting a Story
- Production Tasks
- Producer Basics
- Endorsing a Story
- Inserting a Break Line
- Ordering a Queue
- Calculating Backtime from Out Time
- Displaying the Show Timing Clocks
- Establishing Broadcast Control in a Queue
- Loading a Rundown Queue into Broadcast Control
- Placing a Rundown Queue in Show Timing Mode
- Production Locking a Queue
- Setting Clock for Show Timing
- Setting Story Start Times in a Rundown Queue
- Synchronizing a Story
- Synchronizing the First Story
- Synchronizing a Rundown Queue During Broadcast
- Timing Story Text
- Timing a Show
- Floating a Story
- Tracking a Show
- Printing
- Messages and Mail
- Sessions and Preferences
- Macros
- Searching in iNEWS
- Local Databases
- Connecting to a Remote Service
- System Shortcuts
- Icons
- Glossary
- Index
Key Locking a Story
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One user can acquire the body lock and edit the story body while another user with the form lock
can edit the story’s form data. When one of these locks is applied, the person’s user name
appears at the bottom right corner of the workspace in the Status bar. Pressing the Edit Lock
button manually locks both form and story sections.
To edit lock a story:
1. Open the queue containing story with which you want to work.
For more information, see “Opening a Queue” on page 62
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2. Click a story to select it.
3. Select Story > Edit Lock (or press Ctrl+E).
The story is edit locked.
To unlock a story that has been manually edit locked, do one of the following:
t Press Ctrl+E.
t Navigate to another story.
t Click on the Unlock button in the toolbar.
Key Locking a Story
When you create a story that you want to prevent from being accessed by another individual, you
can key lock the story so that unauthorized individuals cannot open, edit, move, duplicate, print,
or delete it. Only those users who know the "key" can unlock a key-locked story.
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Your system administrator can access any story, including a locked story, at any time.
To key lock a story:
1. Open the queue containing story with which you want to work.
For more information, see
“Opening a Queue” on page 62.
2. Open the story and click on it so your cursor appears in the Story panel.
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If you select the story in the Queue panel only, the following option in step 3 will not appear in
the Tools menu.
3. Select Tools > Lock Story.
The User Lock Story dialog box opens.