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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 Mail
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where <user name> is a user name on the <system name> system. The system name can be an IP
address in standard "dot" notation, such as 172.161.131.2, but is typically the call letters of the
TV station.
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This syntax is not necessary if the remote iNEWS system is added to a Community on the local
iNEWS system, which can be done by your system administrator.
To send an intersystem message:
1. In the To: text box, also known as the address box, of the Messages toolbar, enter a user
name. Then press Tab to move the cursor to the text box.
If the user is logged in, the Connect icon appears to the left of the address box. This lets you
know the user will receive the message immediately. If the user is logged out, a Disconnect
icon appears. See message indicators for more information.
2. In the text box, type your message text.
At any time, you can erase the current message and send a new one by clicking New
Message on the Messages toolbar.
3. Click Send Message.
If the user name in the address box is not valid, the Question Mark icon appears. Verify the
user name of the person you are sending to and resend the message.
Sending Mail
Use the Mail option when you need to send messages that are more than a single line long, when
you need to send to multiple recipients, or when you want the message to persist until the
recipient deletes it.
To send mail:
1. Select Communicate > Open Mail (or press F9).
The Mail window opens. The left panel displays a list of mail that has been sent to you.
Information in the list includes from whom the mail was sent, the subject of the mail, and the
date it was sent.
2. In the right panel, click New to activate the Sending a Message section.
3. Do one of the following;
t To send mail to a single user, enter the name of the user in the To field.
t To send mail to multiple users, enter each name in the To field, and separate each name
with a comma, a space, or both.
To send mail to multiple users who belong to a specific group, such as producers, you can
use the group name. Contact your system administrator for available group names.