Session 11: ENPS Active-X for Journalists

Preparation

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Description

This video tutorial focuses on how journalists and editorial newsroom staff interact with the Active-X plugin within their ENPS environment.

Session specific objectives

  • Opening the Active-X plugin and the Mos Gateway
  • Adding graphics templates to stories
  • Changing text parameters
  • Changing image parameters

Chapter 1: Introduction

  • Rationale

Chapter 2: The ENPS Client

  • Story selection
  • Opening the Active-X plugin
  • MOS toolbar icon

Chapter 3: Active-X MOS Gateway pop up

  • Scaling and resizing
  • Session drop-down menu selection
  • Channel selection
  • Template List

Chapter 4: Example graphics template selection

  • Methods
  • Parameter List:
    • Bitmap/image content field
    • Text content field

Chapter 5: Adding the graphics template to the story

  • Item renaming
  • Updating
  • ADD tool button
  • DRAG tool button
  • Saving the graphics template addition
    • Orange highlight confirmation

Chapter 6: Graphics template Previewing

  • PREVIEW tool button
  • Modifying after Preview
  • Deleting a graphics template from a story
  • CUT tool button

Chapter 7: The NewsPlayout project: Full frame templates

  • COMMODITIES
  • CURRENCIES
  • MARKETS
  • QOFTHEDAY

Chapter 8: The NewsPlayout project: L-shaped content 1

  • SIDEBAR
  • Update methods
  • Browsing for images

Chapter 9: The NewsPlayout project: L-shaped content 2

  • Straplines
  • Checkbox options

Video duration

10 minutes

User Level

All new users