NewTek TriCaster Advanced Edition Automation and Integration Guide - Manual (Page 44)

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One of the most exciting new sources of DataLink keys is DataLink™ for TriCaster™, NewTek’s new custom
extension for the Chrome
® web browser. Available without charge from the Chrome Web Store, DataLink™
Web allows you to easily populate both text and image DataLink keys from webpages.
The DataLink keys and values are immediately available for use in TriCaster title pages, and elsewhere in
TriCaster. Simply select some text, or an image, and use the right-click context menu (or a hotkey) to
update a DataLink key you have defined. Any title page using that key will immediately update.
S
ESSION
K
EYS
Note that %Session Title Name% and %Session Title Description% are special DataLink keys. Along with
%Session Title Image%, the values for these keys are defined in the Startup>Session screen (Figure 28) .
FIGURE 28
These special ‘session keys’ are pre-assigned by default to appropriate title entries in specific title pages
supplied with your TriCaster. When displayed live, these keys are replaced by the values you entered in the
Startup screen.
In certain cases, then, this means that simply taking a few moments to choose appropriate values for your
company or client will automatically pre-populate stock titles in the session with those values. (Of course,
you can modify the title page entries as you see fit, too).
T
IME AND
D
ATE
A number of time and date keys are always available in the key insertion drop-down menu. Examples of
these key names are Time, Date, and variants on these. These keys allow you to prepare clock and calendar
objects that update in realtime on your title pages. When these keys are displayed, the corresponding
values are derived from TriCaster’s production clock. This provides many useful and creative possibilities,
including counting down to an upcoming events.