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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
Using Abstract Display in Queue
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t If you easy locked the queue, click the Easy Lock box.
5. Click Unlock.
Using Abstract Display in Queue
The Abstract Display in Queue feature gives you the ability to display a selected number of lines
of story body for each story in the queue view.
To enable abstract display in queue:
1. Select Tools > Options > Preferences.
2. Click on the Layout tab.
3. Click in the Preview Lines - Use Default check box.
4. Click OK.
5. To check the number of preview lines defined, right-click in the queue and select Queue
Properties to bring up the Queue Properties dialog and click on the User Interface tab.
Preview Lines shows the number of lines defined.
6. Select View > Story Preview to temporarily change the number of preview lines.
If you leave the queue you are on and return to it, the preview lines setting returns to the
default.
The Story Preview dialog opens.
7. Click in the Lines to preview text box and type a new number.
8. Click OK to register your change.
If you click on the Default button the queue’s Property default will be selected.
Using Currency Total
Currency total allows you to click on individual cells or full columns in the Queue panel and
total these items.