Story Editor

Procedures

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.

Broadcast

Broadcast stories contain text but are not published to a social media account. You can use Broadcast stories in a running order as operator cues or as containers to publish multiple social media stories at one time.

If the running order is based on an NCS rundown, the running order contains Broadcast stories imported from the NCS. You can open an NCS Broadcast story in the Story Editor, but you cannot edit the story. An NCS Broadcast story can be copied to another running order to create a new Broadcast story that you can edit.

Top Toolbar 

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_Save.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_Take_Lock.png 

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.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_Take_Lock00001.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_Add_Format.png 

Add — use this menu to select a format to create a new story within the same story family.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_Delete_Format.png 

Delete — click or tap this icon to delete the current story.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_Create_Placeholder.png 

Create Placeholder — use this menu to select the MOS device for which to create a MOS placeholder. The Create MOS Placeholder dialog box to opens for you to create a MOS place­holder for the selected MOS device. After the MOS device operator creates the requested MOS object, Inception exchanges the MOS object placeholder with the new MOS object.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_Restore.png 

Restore — click or tap this icon to restore the story and move it from the Recycle Bin folder back to the Story Browser folder from which the it was deleted. This icon is only available for stories opened from the Recycle Bin.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_Purge.png 

Purge — click or tap this icon to permanently delete the story from the Inception Server. This icon is only available for stories opened from the Recycle Bin.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_Discuss.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_Drag.png 

Drag — drag this icon into a running order to copy the current story to the running order.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_Assignees.png 

Assignees — click or tap this icon to open the Edit Assignees dialog box to assign Inception users to the story or edit the Inception users assigned to the story.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_Notify_as_Breaking_Story.png 

Notify as Breaking Story — click or tap this icon to mark the current story as a breaking story. This icon is only available for stories that are not marked as a breaking story.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_Cancel_Breaking_Story.png 

Cancel Breaking Story — click or tap this icon to cancel the breaking story status for the cur­rent story. This icon is only available when a story is marked as a breaking story.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_History.png 

History — click or tap this icon to open the Revision History panel to select a story revision to revert to and then open in the Story Editor.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_-_History00002.png 

Close History — click or tap this icon to close the Revision History panel.

 

Body — in this box, enter new story text or edit existing story text. Use the tools in the Text Formatting toolbar to set the appearance of story text and to spell check the story text.

You cannot edit an NCS Broadcast story.

Text Formatting Toolbar 

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Bold.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Italic.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Underline.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Remove_Format.png 

Remove Format — click or tap this icon to remove Bold, Italic, Underline, Strike-through, and Text Color formatting from the selected text.

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Select_All.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Broadcast00003.jpg 

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

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Copy.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Paste.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Paste_as_Plain_Text.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Paste_from_Word.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Undo.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Redo.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Find.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Replace.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Show_Blocks.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Maximize.png 

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

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Print.png 

Print — click or tap this button to select how to print story content.

Formatted — print a story with the production cues displayed to the left of the story content.

Formatted + Instructions — print a story with the production cues displayed to the left of the story content and include instructions.

Unformatted — print a story as displayed in the Story Editor panel.

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Convert_to_Upper_Case.png 

Convert to Upper Case — click or tap this icon to change the selected text to all upper-case letters.

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Convert_to_Lower_Case.png 

Convert to Lower Case — click or tap this icon to change the selected text to all lower-case letters.

 

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Convert_to_Body_Case.png 

Convert to Body Case — click or tap this icon to change the selected text to mixed case letters. Review the resulting text carefully, because the case adjustment tool can­not account for all situations.

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_SOT.png 

SOT — click or tap this button to insert sound on tape (SOT) information in a story. By default, SOT information is displayed as green text in a story. The word count for a story does not include SOT information.

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Note.png 

Instruction — click or tap this button to insert an instruction in a story. By default, instructions are displayed as blue text in a story. The word count for a story does not include instructions.

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Production_Cue_Group.png 

Production Cue Group — use this list to select the production cue group that con­tains the production cues to insert into a story. Hot keys only insert the production cues contained in the selected production cue group.

Story_Editor_-_Text_Tools_-_Production_Cue.png 

Production Cue — use this list to select the production cue to insert into a story. By default, production cues display as red text in a story. The word count for a story does not include production cues.

 

MOS Objects — this area displays the MOS objects contained in a story. A black background with a warning icon highlights MOS objects that have mismatched MOS IDs. The order of the MOS objects in the MOS Objects area is the order in which MOS objects are output to an automation system (OverDrive) when the Broadcast story goes to air during running order playout.

You can drag MOS objects from the ActiveX plugin, Web plugin, or MOS Objects panel in to the MOS Objects area. Within the MOS Objects area you can manage MOS objects as follows:

Edit MOS object settings by double-click a MOS object to open the associated plugin.

Reposition a MOS object by dragging it to new position in the MOS Objects area.

Copy the selected MOS object in the MOS Object area by pressing Ctrl C. Paste a copied MOS object into the MOS Object area by pressing Ctrl V.

Replace a MOS object by dragging a MOS object from ActiveX plugin, Web plugin, or MOS Objects panel to the icon of the MOS object to replace in the MOS Object area.

Delete the selected MOS object in the MOS Object area by pressing the Backspace or Delete key.

Revision History — this area displays the available revisions of the Broadcast story open in the Story Editor. Select a story revision to revert to and open in the Story Editor.

Revert — click this button to revert to the selected story revision and then open it in the Story Editor.

Bottom Toolbar 

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_Bottom_-_Approve.png 

Approve — click or tap this icon to approve the current story for publishing.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_Bottom_-_Request_Approval.png 

Request Approval — click or tap this icon to request approval of the story when a user does not have approval permission. Inception adds a check mark to the Running Order panel Submit­ted column for stories that users have requested approval.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_Bottom_-_Unapprove.png 

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.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_Bottom_-_Publish.png 

Publish — click or tap this icon to publish the current story. This button is only available for approved stories.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_Bottom_-_Request_Publish.png 

Request Publish — click or tap this icon to request approval of the story, and to publish it as soon as approval is obtained.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_Bottom_-_Unpublish.png 

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.

Story_Editor_-_Toolbar_Bottom_-_Reject.png 

Reject — click or tap this icon to reject a request to approve or publish a story.

 

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

Panel Navigation 

Hotkey

Function

Alt  

Focus on the panel above the current panel.

Alt  

Focus on the panel below the current panel.

Alt  

Focus on the panel to the right of the current panel.

Alt  

Focus on the panel to the left of the current panel.

Ctrl Alt  

Open the next tab in the current panel.

Ctrl Alt  

Open the next tab in the current panel.

 

Editor Navigation 

Hotkey

Function

Ctrl  

Jump to the paragraph above.

Firefox: Jump to the end of the current line.

Ctrl  

Jump to the paragraph below.

Firefox: Jump to the start of the current line.

Ctrl  

Jump to the start of the next word.

Ctrl  

Jump to the start of the previous word.

Alt Page Up 

Open the previous story in the running order in the Story Editor.

Alt Page Down 

Open the next story in the running order in the Story Editor.

Page Up 

Scroll text up by approximately the length of the editing area.

Page Down 

Scroll text down by approximately the length of the editing area.

Home 

Jump to the start of the current line.

Ctrl Home 

Jump to the start of the story.

End 

Jump to the end of the current line.

Ctrl End 

Jump to the end of the story.

 

Text Selection 

Hotkey

Function

Ctrl A 

Select all the text in a story.

Shift  

Select the text from the cursor to the character above the cursor in the line above.

Shift  

Select the text from the cursor to the character below the cursor in the line below.

Shift  

Select the next character to the right.

Shift  

Select the next character to the left.

Ctrl Shift ↑ 

Select the next word above.

Ctrl Shift ↓ 

Select the next word below.

Ctrl Shift → 

Select the next word to the right.

Ctrl Shift ← 

Select the next word to the left.

Shift Home 

Select the characters from the cursor to the start of the current line.

Ctrl Shift Home 

Select the characters from the cursor to the start of the story.

Shift End 

Select the characters from the cursor to the end of the current line.

Ctrl Shift End 

Select the characters from the cursor to the end of the story.

Shift Page Up 

Select text upwards by approximately the length of the editing area.

Shift Page Down 

Select text downwards by approximately the length of the editing area.

 

Copy and Paste 

Hotkey

Function

Ctrl C 

Copy the selected text to the clipboard.

Ctrl V 
Shift Insert 

Paste text from the clipboard into a story.

Shift Ctrl V 

Paste text from the clipboard into a story without any text formatting.

Ctrl X 
Shift Delete 

Remove the selected text from the story and place it on the clipboard.

 

Text Formatting 

Hotkey

Function

Ctrl B 

Make the selected text bold.

Ctrl I 

Italicize the selected text.

Ctrl U 

Underline the selected text.

 

Text Editing 

Hotkey

Function

Shift Enter 

Add a line break.

Ctrl K 

Insert sound on tape (SOT) information in a story. By default, SOT informa­tion is displayed as green text in a story.

Ctrl Backspace 

Delete the characters from the cursor to the start of the current word.

Ctrl Delete 

Delete the characters from the cursor to the end of the current word.

Ctrl Z 

Undo your last edit.

Ctrl Q 

Save and close the story.

Ctrl S 

Save the story.