Recovering Stories In Case of Disconnect
When you work in MediaCentral UX, the state of your story is stored on your local Windows or Macintosh system every 10 seconds. This feature is helpful in case of a disconnection or service failure, or if you close a browser session without saving your work. This feature is also helpful if your administrator sets an automatic session timeout.
Edits made during the last ten seconds cannot be recovered.
You can recover your unsaved changes in several different ways:
• If a disconnection or failure occurs and you remain signed in, the editing functions of the Queue/Story pane are deactivated, and the Auto Recovery dialog box is displayed, as described below.
• If the disconnection or failure results in the need to sign in again, a dialog box is displayed that lists assets with unsaved changes.
Click the name of the asset to open the last saved version. If the asset is a story, the Queue/Story pane displays three additional buttons:
- Recovered: Click this button to open the recovery file (from the local system).
- Last Saved: Click this button to open the last saved file (from the Interplay Production database).
- Keep This: Click this button to save the version that you display and delete the other version.
If the story includes a script sequence, and the Sequence pane is open, these buttons are displayed on the Sequence pane.
You can switch back and forth between versions to compare them, and click the Keep This button when you decide which version to keep.
• If you close the Auto Recovery dialog box without selecting an asset, you can select Auto-Recovered Assets from the Queue/Story pane menu to display the Auto Recovery dialog. This option appears only if auto-recovered assets are available.
This feature works similarly for stories and sequences. For specific information about auto-save for sequences, see
Recovering Sequences.
If your browser crashes, but the MediaCentral UX session and iNEWS session are still active, iNEWS stories are locked for five minutes. You will not be able to edit or restore the story unless the lock is released or the MediaCentral UX and iNEWS sessions end. You can ask your MediaCentral UX administrator to end the MediaCentral UX session, which will release the lock.
