A user perspective is a customized view of the Inception user interface. It is a mapping of Inception panel types to positions in the user interface layout. Perspectives also save the columns displayed in the Running Order, Playlist, and Social Polls panels
For example, you can create a perspective that includes a feed in the left column, a playlist in the top middle, and a Twitter feed in the right column. When you later use this perspective, any feeds you open display in the left column. Playlists open in the middle. Twitter feeds open in the right column.
Perspectives are especially useful for people who perform many different tasks in Inception. For example, a producer may create one perspective for working with running orders and the story editor panel, and another perspective for working with playlists and feeds.
Perspectives can include any or all panel types:
•Running Orders (Including panel columns)
•Playlists (Including panel columns)
•Feeds (Burst, Instagram, RSS, Spredfast, Twitter, and Wire)
•Story Editor
•My Stories
•Task Schedule
•Approval Manager
•Video Player
•Social Polls (Including panel columns)
•Social Polls Editor
All Inception users can create perspectives for their own use. Inception administrators can also create global perspectives available to all users.
Panels may not always open exactly where you expect. As you open and close panels, Inception adjusts the layout to optimize use of the available space. For example, if the current perspective includes a feed in the left column and you use it to open only a feed, the feed occupies all the available space. As you open more panel types, Inception adjusts the layout to conform with the perspective.
Perspectives are not available on mobile devices.
This chapter discusses the following topics:
•Change the Layout of a Perspective
•Make a User Perspective Global
•Revert a Perspective to the Default Layout