Tablet Story Viewer

The Tablet Story Viewer (TSV) allows anchors and reporters to use their tablet as a backup for their prompter, instead of traditional paper scripts. The TSV also works great—on a tablet or a phone—for liveshots from the field, where there may be no traditional prompter available.

Content in the TSV - including the stories in the Rundown, the location of the yellow Timing Bar, and story text - updates in real time as changes are made. If necessary, click the Refresh icon to force an update to the current view.

The TSV stores the entire rundown locally on your device, so it will continue to function even if connectivity to the server is lost. In the event of a connection loss, the TSV will display the Server Disconnect icon and will continue to operate using the cached snapshot of the rundown and scripts from the time the connection was dropped. Real-time updating resumes when the connection is restored.

Open a Rundown in TSV Mode

To open a Rundown in TSV mode, click the TSV icon at the bottom of the screen.

Navigation

Initially, on larger screen devices, the TSV opens in split-screen mode with the rundown on the left, story scripts on the right, and a red bar containing the rundown title across the top. On phones, there is no split screen view - only the story scripts are displayed.

Click the Show/Hide Rundown icon to hide the rundown and display the script full screen, or to restore the split-screen view.

On tablets or phones, swipe left or right across the script pane to move between stories. In desktop/laptop browsers, use the left and right arrows at the top of the script pane to move between stories (these can also be used on mobile devices, as well). You can swipe or scroll up or down in the story pane to see additional text in longer stories.

If you have scrolled up or down in the Rundown, tapping the Snap to Timing Bar icon will return the rundown to the current timing bar position, if the timing bar is enabled and in use for the Rundown (the content of the story pane does not change). If the timing bar is not enabled on the rundown, the icon will switch to the Snap to Selected Row icon, which will jump the rundown to the location of the currently-displayed content in the Story pane.

Edit a Story in TSV Mode

Click the Edit icon to make changes to the currently-viewed script. Note: It is not possible to upload media, check-in or generate QR code slates while editing a story in TSV mode.

Text Case

Users can choose to display the text of a Story in all uppercase, all lowercase, or in correct case while viewing a Story in the Tablet Story Viewer. To do this, select the Aa button on the options bar at the bottom of the screen and select Lower Case, Upper Case, or Correct Case.

Close TSV

Click the Close icon to close any TSV window.

Open Multiple TSVs

ENPS Mobile allows you to open multiple instances of the TSV for different rundowns at the same time. As soon as you open the TSV, you will see 2 displayed in the Show Open Windows icon at the top of the screen.

Click on the icon to display a dropdown list of available windows—initially, your rundown open in TSV view and the ENPS Mobile main view. Using this dropdown you can access any of ENPS Mobile's functions and still quickly return to the TSV.

If you open other rundowns in TSV mode, you will see the number in the Show Open Windows icon increase. You can then use the icon to switch between all TSV instances as well as the ENPS Mobile main window.

Presenter View

While in the Tablet Story Viewer, users can change their view of Stories to the Presenter View. The Presenter View displays Story text in white text on a black background.

Users scroll through the Story by tapping once and holding above or below the scroll icon on the right-hand side of the Story. If the user taps and holds their finger on the screen, then slides up or down, the speed will increase or decrease depending upon the side of the scroll icon on which the tap was performed.

Double-tapping above or below the scroll icon will take the user directly to the previous Story (double-tapping above the icon) or the next Story (double-tapping below the icon). Tapping a story in the Rundown will jump the presenter view directly to that Story.

The scroll icon can be adjusted vertically on the screen to fit the needs of the user by tapping and holding directly on the icon and then dragging it to the desired position.