This area is a collection of tips and hints to Avid's newsroom system iNEWS.

There is no dedicated order of topics. Nevertheless new chapters should be added on bottom. Use the search function to find some useful elements.

Is it possible to maximize the search window?

The search panel is not a full window. It is a toolbar. Therefore it doesn't contain the functionality to maximize or minimize itself. Inside the iNEWS window you can resize it only by dragging the edges.

But it is possible to undock and resize the search window like a Adobe Photoshop™ palette. To do this:

1. Double click on the heading area (beside the Refine field) inside the search toolbar.
2. The search panel then is a separate free window.
3. Drag the edges to resize the window as you like.

Finally a double click beside the refine field toggles between the maximized and docked view of your search window. Of course Ctrl+R will open/close the search view.

Unfortunately you have to reset the undocked size of your search window (step 3.) each time you start an iNEWS session.

Only an undocked search panel can be dragged and dropped to another edge of the iNEWS window.

Is it possible to activate more than one actionserver by the same queue?

Of course. You are limited to one mailbox per queue but you can assign more than one server to a mailbox. In example to monitor a rundown and forward the rundown to another place via actionserver/txnet.

Edit the /site/config file. Each “mailbox-able” server contains two numbers in its declaration. The first one is the device number and the second one is the mailbox number. Simply use the same mailbox for two (or more) servers.

...
server       350          monitor        350  -       ; monitor
...
special      480        0          txnet   350     -      ;
...

As you see the monitor server 350 and the txnetserver 480 have the same mailbox. On a rundown queue the mailbox 350 is assigned and so you can monitor this queue for CA or MOS as well as mirror the stories on a external system, e.g. a web server.

Never edit your config with a windows based editor. Only use vi or ed!