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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
Checking User Names for Validity
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Checking User Names for Validity
If you do not know the correct user name for a person to whom you want to send a message, you
can check the name against the local system.
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This feature does not check Community systems for possible matches.
To check a user name:
1. In the Messages toolbar on your iNEWS workspace, enter part or all of a user’s username in
the To field.
2. Select Communicate > Messages > Check Name (or press Ctrl+W).
The system checks the database for the name you entered.
If the user name is recognized by the system, the Check Name dialog box appears, listing the
user names that are similar to the name you entered. It also indicates who is logged in and
who is not. A check mark to the left of the name indicates that the user is logged in. An "X"
next to the name indicates that the user is logged out.
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If the name is not recognized by the system, the Check Name warning dialog box appears stating
that no match was found.
3. Click the name of the user to whom you want to send a message.
4. Click OK.
The name is entered into the To field of the Messages toolbar. You can now type your
message and send it to the user whose name you validated.
Sending a Message
Messages are a quick way for users to communicate information to each other. Use the Message
option if you are sending quick, short messages.