Grass Valley Xnews Vertigo Suite v.5.0 - Manual (Page 42)

Xnews User Manual 3-9
Familiarizing yourself with the Xnews Interface
Opening/hiding the Asset Browser panel
The Asset Browser is a collapsible browser that is located and anchored to the left side of
the Xnews interface. By collapsible, we mean that you open and hide the browser’s display
by clicking the gripper bar on the left-hand side of the screen (figure
3-9 ).
Figure 3-9. Click the gripper bar to open or hide the Asset Browser
Another way to reopen the Asset Browser when a page or template is open in the Xnews
Home Area is to click the C
REATE NEW button in the Xnews toolbar. The page/template
immediately closes in the Home Area and the Asset Browser and Asset Gallery return to
their previous state.
N OTE
If the H IDE THE A SSET B ROWSER on open setting is enabled on the Preferences page in the
Xnews settings, the Asset Browser will automatically collapse when a page or template is
opened in the Home Area. See
page 2-15 for more information.
Refreshing a category
The benefit of having the Xmedia Server centrally archive all of the assets (i.e. pages,
templates, images...etc.) is that anybody on the network can ingest, create, or access these
assets at anytime. Since the contents of the Xmedia Server may be changing during your
Xnews session (as others add, edit, or remove assets), the Xmedia Server automatically
refreshes the Asset Browser every time a change is saved to an asset or asset category.
This ensures that the Xnews Asset Browser always contains the latest versions of the
assets stored on the Xmedia Server.
Although it isn’t necessary, you can refresh the Asset Browser by right-clicking on a
category in the Asset Browser and selecting the R
EFRESH command (figure 3-10 ). The
Asset Browser immediately reloads the category with the Xmedia Server content.
Figure 3-10. The Refresh command reloads the category with the most recent content from the XMS
Click to open the Asset Browser Click to hide the Asset Browser