Grass Valley NewsQ Pro v.2.1 - Manual (Page 24)

Chapter 1 Introducing NewsQ Pro
10 Digital News Production
The Assignment List Manager
The Assignment List Manager (ALM) comes in two forms: standalone and
embedded into the NewsEdit application.
Producers (or other station personnel) use the standalone Assignment List
Manager to determine how many clips are missing for a given news show.
Editors use the embedded Assignment List Manager to receive assignments
from the producer and to send completed clips to a Media Server for playout.
Both forms of the Assignment List Manager are used to create additional
placeholders for clips and to reassign placeholders to other categories.
The standalone Assignment List Manager runs on any computer on the
network—an icon in the task bar flashes red when items in the selected category
are missing.
The embedded ALM runs on the NewsEdit workstation and integrates with
NewsEdit — the NewsEdit toolbar displays part of the Assignment List
Manager so editors can see at a glance how many stories need video. Opening
the Assignment List Manager provides more detail on specific stories.