Review and Approval
Most media packages created in the Social Message and Web Story panes require approval before they can be published, although packages published to personal accounts might not require approval. You can view all of the packages submitted for approval in the Packages pane.
When you publish to a corporate Web site, Media Distribute sends your approved package to your content management system (CMS). The CMS determines when the media package is published to your corporate Web page, depending on how your CMS has been configured.
You must have an Media Distribute Producer role to approve stories. You can use other roles to view the messages displayed in the Packages pane, but you cannot approve packages without an Media Distribute Producer role.
Scheduled media packages are marked with a schedule icon. If you schedule a story from a rundown queue and set the story to sync with iNEWS, the story is marked with a Sync icon. The synced story automatically picks up any updates made to the story in iNEWS. If a scheduled rundown story is synced with iNEWS, and then the story status changes from non-floated to floated, the Sync icon changes to a Broken Sync icon, since floated stories cannot be scheduled. If you change the floated story back to an unfloated story, the sync is restored and the icon changes back to the Sync icon. If the air date of a synced story changes, the Schedule Date in the Packages pane updates to reflect the new air date.
| Schedule icon |
| Sync icon |
| Broken Sync icon |
The Packages pane allows you to do the following:
• View and sort a list of all packages submitted for publication. You can also delete packages from the list.
• Filter the list based on a range of dates, or filter the list by users, status, and online service or platform.
• Select a package to edit, allowing you to modify the story or the associated video.
• Approve and publish packages to any available target.
• Recall a package scheduled for delivery before the scheduled date.
For more information on using the Packages pane, see the following topics:
