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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
Sending a Message
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To send a message:
1. In the To field of the Messages toolbar, enter a user name, and then press Tab to move the
cursor to the text box.
If the user is logged into either the local system or a remote system in a local Community,
the Connect icon appears to the left of the address box. This lets you know the user will
receive the message immediately. Similarly, if the user is logged out, a Disconnect icon
appears, and if the name is not recognized as a valid user, a Question Mark icon appears. See
“Message Indicators” on page 156
for more information.
2. In the text box, type the text of your message.
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You can also type or paste a URL into your messages, and iNEWS will provide the information as
a link.
3. Click the Send button or press Enter.
4. At any time, you can erase the current message and send a new one by clicking New
Message on the Messages toolbar.
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If the Messages toolbar is not displayed at the top of your workspace, you can display it by
pressing the F8 key. See also “Displaying or Hiding a Toolbar” on page 47 for more
information.
Message Indicators
In the Messages toolbar, one of three message indicators appears to the left of the To: text box,
depending on what you type in the To: text box.
Each possible indicator is explained as follows:
Indicator Description
Indicates that the user, whose name was typed in the To: text box, is
logged in to iNEWS.
Indicates that the user, whose name was typed in the To: text box, is
not logged in.
Indicates that you entered an invalid user name in the To: text box.