Personal Settings

The Personal Settings Editor allows you to configure certain aspects of how the ENPS Client works and looks.

You can access the Personal Settings Editor using any of the following methods.

Select File Menu > Options > Personal Settings, or;
Right-click Personal Folder and select Settings....

Options

The following tables describe each section of the Personal Settings Editor and its fields.

General

Dashboard Options

Default Opening View

Select whether you want the Dashboard to open in Full Screen, Vertical, or Detached.

List Options

Default Opening View	Select whether you want windows in ENPS to open as Floating, Pinned, or Detached.
List items up to this number of days in advance	The List Window may contain a large number of Rundowns and Planning Grids for future dates. Since entries in the List Window are sorted chronologically, they will appear before today's work in progress. Change this value to the maximum number of days in advance that you want to appear in the List Window. You can enter any value up to 99 days. If you leave this field blank, all future entries will be displayed.
Default Zoom (%)	Enter your preferred Default Zoom level (100% or higher) for items in the List Window.
Max List Results	Enter your preferred number of Max List Results for items in the List Window.

Layout Options

Load alert bar at startup	The Alert Bar allows users to see wire alerts and ENPS messages, even if the ENPS window is minimized. It is recommended that you keep the Alert Bar enabled.
Hide Notification Panels at startup	Select this checkbox to hide the New Messages and Wire Alerts panels when you start the ENPS Client.
Navigation Bar Orientation (Restart Required)	By default, Horizontal will be selected. If you want the Navigation Bar to be displayed vertically instead of horizontally, select the Vertical radio button. This setting will only take place after restarting the ENPS Client.
Navigation Bar Display	By default, Icons will be selected. If you want the Navigation Bar to display text instead of icons, select the Text radio button.
Show on Navigation Bar	Checklist of items to show or hide on the Navigation Bar.

UI Theme

Color theme to use in the ENPS Client interface, including dark modes

Apps

App Launcher

Open App in Web Browser	Opens the selected app in a web browser.
Open App within ENPS	Opens the selected app in the ENPS client.

Story

Story Options

Automatically reformat news stories	When checked, this option automatically removes extraneous line feeds from news wire items as they are loaded into an Editing Window. This generates text flow across the full width of the Editing Window. Select Undo to restore original formatting for a selected item. Selecting this option may make it difficult to read Stories with tabular data such as stock data or sports statistics.
Show word count	Select this option to display the word count in Stories.
Show source content area	Select this option to display the Source Content Area in opened Stories.
Open Urls In External Browser	Select this option to open links in the ENPS Client in an external web browser.
Minutes between automatic back up of stories	Select this option to determine the amount of time between automatic back ups of stories.

MOS Item References

All Collapsed	Select this option if you want all MOS item references in a Story to be collapsed.
All Expanded	Select this option if you want all MOS item references in a Story to be expanded. If a MOS item reference is expanded, it will display a proxy preview if available.

Rundown

Rundown Options

Open Rundowns horizontally maximized

Set the default Rundown view to be horizontal across the top half of the screen.

It is recommended that you enable this option so that you can view more columns on your screen at one time.

Rundown View Options

Select the view that you want to use when you open Rundowns and Planning Grids. By default, they will open with the template layout but you can change this setting so that they will open with your personal view.

It is recommended that you leave this setting at its default value until you are familiar enough with the ENPS Client to create your own Rundown Layout.

Language

Language For Menus

Select the language you want to use for the menus in the ENPS Client.

This option controls the ENPS interface only.

Preloaded spell-check dictionaries

A dictionary must be selected in order for spell check in Stories to work. In this list you can select which dictionaries the ENPS Client should pre-load when you open the client. For performance reasons, it is recommended that you limit this to the two or three languages that you use most often.

Your workstation's locale is set in the Region and Language settings in the Windows Control Panel. When you add text to a Story, either by typing it or copying and pasting it from an external source, the text will be marked with your workstation's locale, regardless of which language you enter in the Story Editor.

Text entered while the locale is set to English will be checked against the English dictionary, text entered while the workstation is set to French will be checked against the French dictionary, and so on, regardless of which languages are pre-loaded.

If you need to spellcheck for more than one language, you can do so by clicking on the Spellcheck button in the Story ribbon or Planning Item ribbon, and selecting the desired languages from the drop-down menu.

Planning

Display Date Picker for Event Start and Event End	If selected, you will see the entire date and time displayed within planning grid Event Start and Event End columns, making it easy to modify those values.
Include Breaks	If deselected, “break” rows are no longer displayed in the calendar.

Notifications

Alert Options

Play alert sounds when messages arrive	Sound an alert when messages are received.
Play alert sounds when priority news arrives	With this setting, the ENPS Client sounds an alert when urgent wire items or Forward Search items enter the system. For more information about Forward Searches, see Forward Search Settings.
Suppress wire urgents	This setting should be used with caution, as it will override all urgent wires in the Top Line Area. However, it will still allow urgent wire notifications for those stories which match Forward Search criteria. This is useful at sites where users only want to receive notifications regarding custom categories.
Show notification card when notifications arrive	Displays the notification card when a notification is received.