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Terms and Concepts
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Queue Panel The Queue panel is one of the three primary panels that make up the iNEWS
workspace. The Queue panel displays a list of the stories in a queue. Stories
are added, deleted, moved, and ordered through this panel.
Stories A story is a document listed in a queue in the database. It might contain any
type of information from scripts with production cues to contact names and
addresses. A story may be displayed in its entirety in the Story panel of the
iNEWS workspace.
Story Panel The Story panel displays a story’s form, text, and any other pertitent
information, such as production cues. Of the three main panels that make up
the iNEWS workspace, the Story panel is unique because it may be divided
into three sub-panels, the Story Form panel, Instruction panel, and Story Text
panel.
Story Form
Sub-Panel
The Story Form sub-panel contains metadata fields for describing the story,
such as a script’s page number, slug or title, format, Video ID, and so forth.
The data also appears in tabular form in the Queue panel.
Instruction
Sub-Panel
The Instruction sub-panel contains production cues or machine control
instructions for production devices, such as character generators.
Story Text
Sub-Panel
The Story Text sub-panel contains the text or script of a news story that is sent
to closed captioning and to the teleprompter to be read on-air. It is the only part
of the Story panel that is always displayed—unlike the Story Form and
Instruction panels, both of which can be hidden based on the nature of the
story or the user’s preferences.
Rundown The Rundown (also known as Running Order or Lineup) is a queue with
specific form fields and characteristics, which allow an ordered list of scripted
stories to be organized as a timed show. The timed-out list of scripts indicate
the order in which they will run during a news program. The rundown is
viewed in the Queue panel of the iNEWS workspace.
Monitor Server The monitor server is a utility program, running on the iNEWS Server. When
turned on, it checks its assigned rundown for machine control events, reports
any errors, and creates a playlist. When “loaded”, the monitor server sends its
playlist to a specified device automation system, such as iNEWS | Command
or ControlAir.
Project Projects are a way of categorizing stories by topic so that news teams working
on a particular topic can find everything related to it in a single place, without
moving or copying the original source information from its current location in
the database. Projects and facets are displayed on the Projects tab in the
Directory panel.
Facet Facets are sub-topics, providing additional granularity to projects.
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