Assignment Editor

Procedures

Use this panel to gather content to create the Broadcast stories and Social Media stories to fulfill an assignment. The Assignment Editor panel opens when you double-click an assignment in the Assignment Manager panel.

You require an NCS license for your Inception system to access the Assignment Editor panel. Also, you cannot use a mobile device to edit assignments. Please contact Ross Video to purchase an NCS license for your Inception Server.

Content

Use this tab to enter supporting information for the stories that you or your colleagues write for an assignment.

Top Toolbar 

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Settings — click or tap this icon to use the Edit Assignment dialog box to edit the slug, due date, location, program, format, assignees, status, and note set for an assignment.

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Print — click or tap this icon to print the current assignment.

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Save — click or tap this icon to save the assignment.

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Take Lock from User — click or tap this icon to take the assignment from the current user so that you can edit the assignment. This icon is only available with another user is currently editing the same assignment that you have open in the Assignment Editor.

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Discuss — click or tap this icon to open the Discussion panel and join a discussion with other Inception users about the current assignment.

 

Story Information — in this box, enter supporting information for the Broadcast stories or Social Media stories that you write for an assignment. Use the tools in the Text Formatting toolbar to set the appearance of text entered in the Story Information box.

Text Formatting Toolbar 

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Bold — click or tap this icon to make the selected text bold.

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Italic — click or tap this icon to italicize the selected text Italic.

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Underline — click or tap this icon to underline the selected text.

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Remove Format — click or tap this icon to remove all formatting from the selected text.

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Select All — click or tap this icon to select all of the text in a story.

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Cut — click or tap this icon to remove the selected text from the story and place it on the clip­board.

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Copy — click or tap this icon to place a copy of the selected text on the clipboard.

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Paste — click or tap this icon to paste the contents of the clipboard into a story.

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Paste as Plain Text — click or tap this icon to paste the contents of the clipboard into a story without any text formatting.

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Paste from Word — click or tap this icon to paste formatted text selected from a Word file into a story and retain text formatting.

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Undo — click or tap this icon to reverse your last edit.

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Redo — click or tap this icon to recover the last edit that you canceled with the Undo tool.

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Find — click or tap this icon to find text in a story.

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Replace — click or tap this icon to replace text in a story.

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Show Blocks — click or tap this icon to show or hide HTML block identifiers borders in a story.

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Maximize — click or tap this icon to hide or show the Top and Bottom Toolbars.

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Print — click or tap this icon to print a story.

 

Size — use this list to set the point size of the selected text.

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Numbered List — click this icon the change the selected text into a numbered list.

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Bulleted List — click this icon the change the selected text into a bulleted list.

 

Status Bar 

Word Count — the number of words contained in the Story Information box.