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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
Viewing Queue Properties
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To use currency total:
1. Click on the cells you want to total in the Queue panel (use the Ctrl key to select several
rows or columns simultaneously).
2. Right-click in the Queue panel, and select Total to Clipboard.
The total= appears in a tooltip with the sum of the values in the selected cells or columns.
The total of the cells or columns selected is copied to the clipboard.
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Cells can contain currency or decimal numbers but should not be used with date or time values.
Viewing Queue Properties
You can view queue properties that are both administrator-controlled—such as sort
characteristics and printing capabilities—and user-controlled, such as production lock.
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You do not need to open a queue to view its properties. Right-click on any queue in the Directory
panel and select Properties from the pop-up menu. The Queue Properties dialog box appears.
For information on altering queue properties, see the iNEWS Newsroom Computer System
Operations Manual.
To view queue properties from the Queue panel:
1. Open the queue whose properties you want to view.
For more information, see
“Opening a Queue” on page 62.