66.8 Create ETX-G Current Event and Next Event Templates

This chapter documents the steps to create “Current Event” and “Next Event” templates in ETX-G and previews the templates in the Executive Editor’s Secondary Object section.  Upon preview, you can schedule the “Current Event” and “Next Event” to go on-air via the Etere STMan feature.

• Create a “Current event” template
  
  1. In the local workstation, create a new folder, e.g. “888”.
  2. Create an empty text file in the new folder and name the file “params.txt”.
  3. Launch the Etere CG Editor at the local workstation.
  4. Click on the “Text” item in the New Items list, drag and drop the text layer into the Preview window, and enter “Current Event” in the text content.
     Etx-g_current_event_1
     
     
  5. Next, click on the “Ticker” item in the New Items list, drag and drop an empty ticker layer into the Preview window, and enter “TickerContent2” in ticker content.  You can adjust the ticker position, size, and background colour using the features provided in CG Editor.
     
     Etx-g_current_event_2
     
     
  6. Upon completion, select “File > Save Configuration” and save the file to the folder “888” created in local workstation, assign a name to the file and save as default “.ml-cgc” file type, e.g. “CurrentEvent.ml-cgc” or “888.ml-cgc”.
     
  7. In folder “888”, open the “CurrentEvent. ml-GCC” with Notepad and replace the content highlighted in red with content highlighted in green.
     
     Change_image_current_event
     
     
  8. Save the changes to the file “CurrentEvent.ml-cgc” and exit from Notepad.
     
     
• Create a “Next event” template
  
  1. create a new folder in the local workstation, e.g. “999”.
     
  2. Create an empty text file in the new folder and name the file “params.txt”.
     
  3. Launch the Etere CG Editor at the local workstation.
     
  4. Click on the “Text” item in the New Items list, drag and drop the text layer into the Preview window, and enter “Next Event” in the text content.
     
     Etx-g_next_event_1
     
     
  5. Click on the “Ticker” item in the New Items list, drag and drop an empty ticker layer into the Preview window, and enter “Ticker Content 1” in the ticker content.  You can adjust the ticker position, size, and background colour with the features provided in CG Editor.
     
     Etx-g_next_event_2
     
     
  6. Upon completion, select “File > Save Configuration” and save the file to the folder “999” created in local workstation, assign a name to the file and save as default “.ml-cgc” file type, e.g. “NextEvent.ml-cgc” or “999.ml-cgc”.
     
  7. In folder “999”, open the “NextEvent. ml-GCC” with Notepad and replace the content highlighted in red with content highlighted in green.
     
     Change_image_next_event
     
     
  8. Save the changes to the file “NextEvent.ml-cgc” and exit from Notepad.