Grass Valley Xnews Vertigo Suite v.5.0 - Manual (Page 39)

3-6 Xnews User Manual
Familiarizing yourself with the Xnews Interface
Toolbar buttons on the Xnews interface
The Xnews toolbar contains iconic buttons that execute various Xnews functions. The
following table provides a brief functional descriptions of each button in the toolbar.
C REATE NEW
If a page is already open in the Home Area, clicking this button closes the
page. The Home Area is replaced with the Asset Gallery, which displays the
contents of the category that was last selected.
OR
S AVE PAGE
These buttons only appear in the toolbar when a page/template is open in the
Home Area.
When an unsaved page is open in the Home Area, clicking the S AVE P AGE
button allows you to save the page as a shared page by specifying the
page details (i.e. name) and the category location(s).
When a page is open in the Home Area, the S AVE P AGE button appears in
the toolbar. Clicking this button saves any edits that were made to the page.
S AVE AND INSERT PAGE
This button only appears in the toolbar when a page/template is open in the
Home Area.
Allows you to save the open page by adding it to the open story/rundown.
C HANGE THE VIEW
Pressing this button toggles the Asset Gallery’s display format between
D
ETAIL and P ROXY views. As described on page 3-14 , Detail view displays
category contents in a list format, which provides more detail about the page.
While Proxy view displays the pages and templates as thumbnail images for
quick and easy recognition.
S EARCH
Pressing the S EARCH button opens the S EARCH XMS window, which allows
you to create and execute a search for assets on the Xmedia Server. From the
search results, you can replace an existing image, cel animation or clip asset
on a page in Xnews; or open a specific Page, Template, Work Order or Job.
See
“Searching for assets on the Xmedia Server” on page 3-21 .
N EW W ORK O RDER
Pressing this button opens the W ORK O RDER window, which allows you to
create a work order request for the creation or addition of an asset (i.e. image)
that is needed for a page. Once a work order is created, a placeholder is
placed on the page. See
“Creating and using Work Orders” on page 3-23 for
more information.
OR
P REVIEW PAGE
These buttons only appear in the toolbar when a page/template is open in the
Home Area and the Playout settings are enabled in the xnews.ini file.
Pressing this button publishes the open page to a designated device, which
allows the page’s on-air likeness to be previewed on the playout device. See
“Previewing the on-air look of a page” on page 5-14 for more information.
If the P REVIEW P AGE button has an X on it, this indicates that Xnews was
unable to connect to the device.