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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
Types of Searches
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Types of Searches
There are several ways to search for information in the iNEWS databases. Each way operates in
different environments and with different kinds of data. First decide the type of search you want
to perform. Most often, you will perform either seek queries or indexed queries, depending on
the server (or servers) your site has available, the information you are looking for, and the way
you want the system to process your search request.
You can search for information using these Find commands:
• Find/Find Next — Find looks for an occurrence of a given search string in a story or queue.
Find Next keeps repeating the previous find until you change the search parameters. It is
only used with the Find command.
• Find All looks for all occurrences of a given search string in a queue or directory, either of
which can be indexed or non-indexed.
• Find Global looks for all occurrences of a given search string within all indexed queues in
the database. It will execute the query and search through every single indexed queue.
Find Toolbar
To access the Find commands, select a Find command from the Edit menu or use the Find
toolbar.
If the Find toolbar is not displayed in the main window, display it be selecting View > Toolbars
and then clicking on the Find option in the Toolbars dialog.
Basic Word Searches
To search for individual occurrences of a word in a story you are working on, use the Find/Find
Next command (Ctrl+F). All iNEWS users can use this command. The system presents each
occurrence of your search string as it is found. This search is done in the foreground, which
means you cannot perform other work while searching. Do this interactive type of search only
when you need to search a limited number of queues or stories, and if you intend to do something
with the information as you find it.
For example, you want to create a background story that will include text from a number of prior
stories on the same subject. As you find a relevant story dealing with your topic, say
"earthquakes," you will pause in your search and copy text from a prior story to the one you’re in
the process of writing.