Storyboards

A Storyboard is a collaborative workspace that provides a single place for users in your newsroom—and across your enterprise—to store, share and find all of the individual elements that can be used to tell a Story. This can include Story notes, basic facts, media, links to Planning Items and Contacts, etc. These can then be combined into a single, finished Story for use in a Rundown or the elements themselves can be dragged to a Rundown as separate lines to create a package of related Stories.

Storyboards can be used for breaking Stories, ongoing events or broad topics like a political campaign. The Storyboard could contain information about the candidates, contact information for their campaigns, video or audio clips from speeches, and more. If your enterprise spans multiple sites, Story elements about a campaign stop covered by one site could be added to the Storyboard and used at other sites within your enterprise.

In addition to Story elements, Storyboards include a community of ENPS users who have either directly contributed content to the Storyboard or explicitly indicated their interested in the Storyboard topic. User activity is logged automatically, so whenever users add, edit or remove an item in the Storyboard an entry will be logged in the Comments and History pane. Storyboards also provide for easy communication with other members of the Storyboard Community, either through direct messaging or collaborative group chat.

Storyboards share privilege settings with Rundowns. Whatever rights a user has to Rundowns in a folder will also govern what they can do in a Storyboard in the same folder.

Open a Storyboard

To open an existing Storyboard, double-click on an item with a Storyboard icon from your personal folder or a group folder. For example:

Create a Storyboard

To create a new Storyboard, right-click on either your Personal Folder or a Group Folder and select New Storyboard. You will be prompted to provide a title.

Once the Storyboard is open, you can add a description by either double-clicking in the blank space below the title or by clicking the Storyboard Properties button on the Storyboard Ribbon and filling in the Description field.

In the Storyboard Properties menu, the Image URL field allows you to put in a URL or file path to a shared location for an image to be associated with your Storyboard. The image will appear once your Storyboard is open.

The Continuous Content Interval (days) field has a default value of "0". This means that content in the Stories pane of the Storyboard will be moved to the archive if the content has not been modified for 30 days. If you want the content to remain in the Storyboard for longer than 30 days, you must enter a value higher than "30" in this field. For example, entering "365" will keep the content in the Storyboard for one year.