Use this panel to create, modify, approve, schedule, and publish the social media stories. The Story Editor panel opens when you double-click or double-tap a story in the running order or in the My Stories panel.
Twitter stories, or Tweet, consists of up to 140 characters of story text, and may also include one image. Twitter stories support the following image file formats:
•.gif — Graphical Interchange Format
•.jpg or .jpeg — Joint Photographic Experts Group
•.png — Portable Network Graphic
The Story Editor interface for working with Twitter stories is as follows:
Top Toolbar
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Save — click or tap this icon to save the story. |
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Take Content Lock from User — click or tap this icon to take the content lock from the current user so that you can edit the story. This icon is only available with another user is currently editing the same story that you have open in the Story Editor. |
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Add Format — use this menu to select a format to create a new story within the same story family. |
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Open Format — use this menu to select a previously-created story to open it in Story Editor. |
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Delete Format — click or tap this icon to delete the current story. |
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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 story. |
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Recase — click or tap this icon to adjust capitalization to make the story text mixed case. Review the resulting text carefully, as the recase tool cannot account for all situations. |
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Drag — drag this icon into a running order to copy the current story to the running order. |
Channel — use this list to select the Twitter account to which to publish the story.
Body — in this box, enter new story text or edit existing story text.
Twitter stories can contain up to 140 characters. The Characters Left field in the status bar at the bottom of the Story Editor reports the remaining characters for a story. To save characters, Inception considers URLs that start with http:// to be 22 characters.
Media Source — use this list to select the media source that contains an image file for the story.
Upload Media Source — when you select an Upload media source from the Media Source list, use the following controls to select an image file:
Browse — click this button to use the File Upload dialog box to upload an image file to the media source selected in the Media Source list.
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click this button to select an image file from the media source selected
in the Media Source list.
File — use this list to select the image file for the story.
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click this button to preview the image file selected for the story in
the Video Player panel. The Video Player panel is not available on mobile
devices.
— click this button to select an image file to upload to a media source.
Directory Media Source — when you select a Directory media source from the Media Source list, use the following controls to select an image file:
File — use this box or list to select the image file for the story.
— click this button to enter in the File box the file name of the image
file for the story.
— click this button to use the File list to select the image file for
the story.
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click this button to preview the image file selected for the story in
the Video Player panel. The Video Player panel is not available on mobile
devices.
QuickTurn Media Source — when you select a QuickTurn media source from the Media Source list, use the following controls to select a video file:
Segment — use this list to select the QuickTurn segment for the story.
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click this button to preview the QuickTurn segment selected for the story
in the Video Player panel. The Video Player panel is not available on
mobile devices.
Streamline Media Source — when you select a Streamline media source from the Media Source list, use the following controls to select an image file:
Asset — drag the asset that contains the image file for the story from the MOS Objects panel, Streamline Plugin panel, or Streamline to this box.
Bottom Toolbar
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Approve — click or tap this icon to approve the current story for publishing. |
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Request Approval — click or tap this icon to request approval of the story when a user does not have approval permission. When e-mail approval in enabled, an approval request is sent to all users who have approval permission. |
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Unapprove — click or tap this icon to change the approval status of the current story from Approved to Not Approved. This icon is only available for stories that are approved and not published. |
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Publish — click or tap this icon to publish the current story. This icon is only available for approved stories. |
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Request Publish — click or tap this icon to request approval of the story, and to publish it as soon as approval is obtained. |
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Unpublish — click or tap this icon to change the publish status of the current story from Published to Not published. This icon is only available for published stories. |
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Hold — click or tap this icon to approve the story, but not publish it. This icon is available if a user with publish permissions requested that the story be approved and published. |
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Reject — click or tap this icon to reject a request to approve or publish a story. |
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Schedule — click this icon to schedule a date and time to automatically publish the story. |
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Reschedule — click this icon to change the date and time to automatically publish the story. This icon is only available for scheduled stories. |
Spelling Shortcut Menu
Suggested Spellings — select one of the suggested spellings to replace the selected misspelled word.
Ignore —select this command to ignore the spelling of the selected word for the current editing session. Inception removes the squiggly red underline from the selected word for the current editing session. The next time you open the story, Inception once again highlights the word as a spelling error.
Add to System Directory — select this command to add the selected word to the additional word list for the active dictionary. After adding the selected word, Inception removes the squiggly red underline from the word. The words that you add to the additional word list of a dictionary are available to all users that use the dictionary for spell checking.
Add to Personal Directory — select this command to add the selected word to your personal word list for the active dictionary. After adding the selected word, Inception removes the squiggly red underline from the word. The words that you add to your personal word list are only available to you for spell checking.
Spellcheck Dictionary — select this command to select a spell checking dictionary for the current editing session.
Copy — select this command to place a copy of the selected text on the clipboard.
Cut — select this command to remove the selected text from the story and place it on the clipboard.
Paste — select this command to paste the contents of the clipboard into the story at the cursor location.
Hotkeys
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CTRL A |
Select all of the text in a story. |
CTRL C |
Copy the selected text to the clipboard. |
CTRL Q |
Save and close the story. |
CTRL S |
Save the story. |
CTRL V |
Paste text from the clipboard into a story. |
CTRL X |
Remove the selected text from the story and place it on the clipboard. |
CTRL Z |
Reverse your last edit. |
