Tile Actions and Actions in Spill

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The following are rightclick options for any tile, either from a tile scroller or on a spill line. Any action with a graphic beside it is also a speed menu option. To use the speed menu, select the tile and then click the appropriate speed menu button.

 

Open - plays the selected tile.
speed publish Do Not Publish/Publish- unpublishes the tile (if published) and publishes the tile (if unpublished).
speed bench Place on the Bench- places selected tile on the bench, making it accessible in any room. By default, tiles are placed on the bench in the current room, but tiles can be placed on the bench in any room, or on the universal bench, by use of the bench list.
speed delete Delete - deletes reference to this tile. The tile itself is not deleted: if a tile is affiliated with more than one NE, then it will still exist on the second scroller even if reference to it is deleted from the first.
speed create blank tile Create a Blank Tile (* not available on a spill line) - creates a "placeholder" tile to which content can be added at a later date. Blank tiles can be of great value in building template NEs.
Edit (* available only in workrooms)- drops the selected tile into the audio/video editor to allow you to create child tiles from a clip.
speed show map Show Parent Map- displays the upward cabinet relations for the selected tile, tracking the path from the selected the tile's NE to the cabinet under which it stands.
Export Tile - export an tile in order either to back up a particular piece of information (including the file and all fields or to send the tile to another DNE.
Open in Windows® (* available for multimedia tiles only) - allows you to open a multimedia tile in your default media player.
Activate Containing NE - activates the NE that contains the spilled tile, and highlights the selected tile, displaying fields for that tile.
Change Preview Image - allows you to add or change the preview thumbnail that appears on the tile in spill.
Place All Tiles on the Bench - places all tiles on the bench.
Delete all Tiles deletes all tiles.

 

 

The following is a rightclick option for video tiles on a spill line only.

 

Change Starting Frame - A single frame from a video is displayed as a thumbnail in the spill line. By default, the first frame is displayed, but this can be changed to display any frame in the video as the thumbnail.
 

1. Rightclick on the video tile in spill,
2. Select Change Starting Frame
3. Scroll through the frames of the video on the split media scroller.
5. Click the frame number (bottom center) to finalize the selection.

 

The following is a rightclick option on a spill line only.

 

Unstack and Re-order (* available only on tile stacks) - spills a stack onto a spill line and allows you to shuffle tiles within a stack or onto or off from a stack. Once unstacked, tiles are moved with stacks exactly as they are with regular spill lines.

 

The following are rightclick options for any NE whose tile scroller has been spilled on any spill line.

 

Open NE - activates the spilled NE.
Close - removes all spilled tiles and closes the spill line.