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Modifying layouts
Modifying layouts
After installing the different iTX Desktop Client modules on the system-administrator and
operator workstations, you may need to modify some iTX Desktop layouts slightly to suit your
system design.
The iTX Desktop on your system-administrator workstation allows you to modify layouts while
they are in the layout-editing mode. When you save changes to a global layout, they apply
wherever you use that layout in the iTX system.
Note: To put layouts in the layout-editing mode and edit them, you must be in your user view;
you cannot edit layouts in the workstation view.
You can switch some layouts to the layout-editing mode directly from the iTX Desktop menu.
These layouts have features that require different settings for different systems. Other layouts,
which do not require any structural changes, are locked. To unlock them, and put them into the
layout-editing mode, requires the entry of a password.
You may need to make these changes to layouts:
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On the Engineering layout, connect service-monitoring components to iTX services.
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On the Engineering layout, associate Alert buttons with audio files.
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On a suitable system-administrator layout, add an Auto Failover Control to enable the
system to switch to a back-up machine if an Output Server fails.
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On various layouts, change group properties.
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On the Asset layout, configure Asset Type buttons.
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On the Asset layout, associate search buttons with PinPoint search criteria.
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On various ingest layouts, set the properties of the Encoder Settings buttons; these
properties control what options are available to operators when setting the structure
of files created during ingest.
If you are using iTX in a system with a matrix router, you may need to make these layout
changes:
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On various routing layouts, map router control components to the router.
Your system may include a Channel Control or Multi-Channel layout that is configured to
display the next event in a particular channel view on a preview monitor. You may need to
make this layout change:
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Configure the hold time for preview events.
We describe how to make these changes in this section. To prevent modified layouts being
overwritten during a system upgrade, you should make the changes on cloned versions of
You need to make the cloned layouts global, so that they can be included in any other user view
or workstation view.
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