Link Broadcast Stories

Linking Broadcast stories enables you to easily reuse content across stories. Since linked stories share content, you only need to edit one linked story to make changes to all linked stories. You can link stories from the following locations:

•Story Browser into a Running Order

•Running Order into the same Running Order

•Running Order into another Running Order

•Assignment Editor into a Running Order

You cannot link published Broadcast stories or story templates.

To link a story

1.Open one of the following locations that contains the story or stories to link in a running order.

•Story Browser panel.

•A running order that contains the stories to link in a Running Order panel.

•An assignment that contains the stories to link in the Stories tab of the Assignment Editor panel.

2.Open the destination running order in a second Running Order panel.

3.Position the source Story Browser panel, Running Order panel, or Assignment Editor panel with the destination Running Order panel so that both panels are visible in your layout.

4.In the source Story Browser panel, Running Order panel, or Assignment Editor panel, select the story or stories to link.

You cannot link published Broadcast stories.

5.Place the mouse pointer on the  icon of the selected Broadcast story or stories, then Ctrl-click and hold the mouse button down.

6.Drag the selected story or stories into the running order in the destination Running Order panel. Continue pressing the Ctrl key while you drag the selected story or stories.

As you drag the selected stores in the destination running order, a blue line previews the position to place the linked story or stories into the running order.

7.When the blue line highlights the position in the destination running order to place the linked story or stories, release the mouse button and then the Ctrl key.

The Running Order panel updates to show the linked stories at the selected location in the running order. The  icon identifies stories as linked stories. When Inception cannot create a linked story in the destination running order it creates a copy of the story. Since copies are regular Broadcast stories, the icon identifies a copied story.