Playlist

This panel lists the available playlists. A playlist contains Inception created social media items, social media items from social media feeds, or both. Taking a playlist online makes all approved items in the playlist available to external systems such as character generators.

Toolbar

	Edit Playlist — click or tap this icon to edit attributes of the current playlist.
	Create Item — click or tap this icon to create a new playlist item. New playlist items are added to the bottom of the current playlist.
	Take Online — click or tap this icon to take the current playlist online. When the playlist is online, all approved items in the playlist are available to external systems, such as character generators.
	Take Offline — click or tap this icon to take the playlist offline. When the playlist is offline, items in the playlist are not available to external systems. This icon is only available while the current playlist is online.
	Remove — click or tap this icon to delete the selected playlist item or items for the current playlist.
	Empty Playlist — click or tap this icon to delete all playlist items from the current playlist.
	Approve — click or tap this icon to approve the selected playlist item or items for publishing to external systems.
	Unapprove — click or tap this icon to unapprove the selected playlist item or items for publishing to external systems. This icon is only available for approved playlist items.
	Float — click or tap this icon to deactivate the selected playlist item or items without deleting them. Floated playlist items are not published to external systems. Floated playlist items appear pink in the playlist, and are identified by a check mark in the Floated column.
	Unfloat — click or tap this icon to reactivate the selected floated playlist item or items. This button is only available for floated playlist items.
	Single Select (mobile only) — this icon indicates that you are working in Single Select mode and that you are only able to select a single playlist items from the playlist. Tap this icon to switch to Multi Select mode.
	Multi Select (mobile only) — this icon indicates that you are working in Multi Select mode and that you are able to select multiple playlist items from the playlist. Tap this icon to switch to Single Select mode.
	Refresh — click or tap this icon to refresh the view of the playlist.

Playlist Table

Use this table to view and manage the stories in a playlist. Each row in the Playlist table represents a story.

Avatar — this column displays the avatar image of the social media user who created the playlist item.

Story Progress — this column displays a color-coded marker that indicates the approval status of the story. Marker colors are as follows:

• Incomplete — the story is incomplete and may require editing before approval.

• Complete — the story is complete but not yet approved for publishing.

• Approved — the story is approved and ready for publishing.

Author — this column displays the name of the person who created the item. If the item was dragged into the playlist from the Feed Viewer, the author name is the one associated with the social media account, and may not be the real name of the author.

Handle — this column displays the name of the Twitter user that sent the Tweet that was used to create a playlist item.

Description — this column displays a truncated version of the playlist item story text.

Source — this column displays the social media source of the playlist item.

Approved — a check mark displayed in this column indicates that a story is approved for publishing. If you have the appropriate permission, you can select this column to approve a story or clear this column to unapprove a story.

Aired — a check mark displayed in this column indicates that a playlist items has aired. The Aired status is set manually. If you have the appropriate permission, you can select this column to mark a story as aired or clear this column to mark that the story has yet to air.

Floated — a check mark displayed in this column indicates that a story is floated and not included in the playout of the running order. If you have the appropriate permission, you can select this column to float a story or clear this column to unfloat a story.

Modified — this column displays the date and time of the most recent change made to the story.

Modified By — this column displays the name of the user who last modified the story.

Playlist URL — this field displays the Playlist URL, which external applications or systems can use to access the contents of the playlist.

Copy to Clipboard (desktop computers only) — click this link to copy the Playlist URL to the clipboard on your computer. After copying the Playlist URL, you can paste the URL into applications to direct them to the playlist. External applications or systems use the Playlist URL to access the contents of the playlist.

View (desktop computers only) — click this link to open an RSS reader to view the content that Inception outputs through the Playlist URL. The Playlist URL only outputs the approved playlist items of an online playlist.

Most web browsers have a built-in RSS feed reader. If you use Google Chrome to access Inception, you may need to install an RSS feed reader plugin.

Hotkeys

Hotkey	Function
CTRL A	Select all of the playlist items in the current playlist.
CTRL C	Copy the selected playlist items in the playlist.
CTRL F	Float the selected playlist item. For a floated playlist items, unfloat the selected playlist item.
CTRL I	Insert a new playlist item in the playlist above the selected playlist item.
CTRL L	Take the current playlist online. For online playlists, take the playlist offline.
CTRL V	Paste copied playlist items into a playlist at the selected location.
CTRL X	Approve the selected playlist item. For an approved playlist items, unapprove the selected playlist item.
CTRL Enter	Open the selected playlist item in the Story Editor panel.
CTRL Delete	Remove the selected playlist item from the playlist.