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Scene Manager Thumbnails with Datalinq VL Blocks

Posted By Joshua Coats 04-09-2024 12:03
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We have a project that is using a datalinq visual logic block to populate text objects. The text objects display properly on both Sequencer preview and Virtual Output but they do NOT consistently create a proper Scene Manager thumbnail. We've set a proper Preview Frame marker in the default scene director, ...

RE: Error in updating data for ADODB connection

Posted By Joshua Coats 01-11-2024 11:50
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@Garner Millward Here you go. By the way, I've found a workaround of sorts that is meeting our on-screen stability need for now by using fixed tables that asynchronously refresh and cache data. We had to re-jig our scenes' datalinq setup a bit, and it's much less flexible (e.g. using macros ...

RE: Error in updating data for ADODB connection

Posted By Joshua Coats 01-09-2024 18:38
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Apologies, I'm running version 11.0 for both XPression and the Datalinq Server. ------------------------------ Joshua Coats Newsroom Artist Supervisor Scripps News Atlanta United States ------------------------------

Error in updating data for ADODB connection

Posted By Joshua Coats 01-09-2024 18:35
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I have a fancy ticker scene (not a true ticker crawl, just using a take group with back-to-back logic) that advances through a league's draft order based on an excel sheet, and updates to reflect picks and trades in real-time. I have the workbook setup as an .XLS with legacy workbook sharing turned on. ...

RE: Xpression Google Sheets Datalinq not working anymore?

Posted By Joshua Coats 12-13-2023 16:38
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Hi Garner! Is this CDATA option only available on v11.5? Or can I use this with v10 or v11? ------------------------------ Joshua Coats Newsroom Artist Supervisor Scripps News Atlanta United States ------------------------------

RE: Datalinq XML for User Input List

Posted By Joshua Coats 10-25-2023 12:19
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Thank you both. I'm using BLADE to generate the XML, and there's a CSV format option that I can use to build the table, it just won't update dynamically with incoming data like the XML will (at least as far as I can figure). ------------------------------ Joshua Coats Newsroom Artist Supervisor ...

Datalinq XML for User Input List

Posted By Joshua Coats 10-23-2023 15:13
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Maybe a dumb question, but is there a way to extract specific nodes (e.g. Contests\Contest\Choices\Choice\Name) from an XML and display them as a user-selectable list from the sequencer? I know this is possible with an excel sheet, just not sure how to pull it off with an XML. ------------------------------ ...

RE: Visual Logic Switch Block with Custom Code

Posted By Joshua Coats 08-21-2023 17:31
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I was on 9.2! That did the trick. Thanks @James Peltzer🤘 P.S. should I be worried about the red square next to the tab name? ------------------------------ Joshua Coats Newsroom Artist Supervisor Scripps News Atlanta United States ------------------------------ ...

Visual Logic Switch Block with Custom Code

Posted By Joshua Coats 08-21-2023 15:00
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I am using a Switch block in Visual Logic to trigger some custom functions that I've set up in the API. The code fails because of missing semi-colons that the visual logic seems to fail to include, only for my custom code calls though. I can add them manually but I really don't want to break the visual ...

RE: Masking crawl text in a scene group without affecting Scene Group

Posted By Joshua Coats 06-27-2023 15:43
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You should be able to create another scene on a lower layer apart from your scene group that achieves the effect you're looking for and that would not be affected by the parent scene's masks. You'll just want to setup scene triggers if you're playing out via sequencer; if you're using Tick-it, just include ...

RE: Using Visual Logic to trigger animation

Posted By Joshua Coats 06-27-2023 13:04
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Hi fellow Joshua! You can use an event marker (as a kind of null), to trigger a scene director to play based on a data value in Visual Logic by using the "Scene > Scene Directors" tree on the left side of your Visual Logic panel. Example project attached for your reference. ------------------------------ ...

RE: Using Visual Logic to trigger animation

Posted By Joshua Coats 06-27-2023 13:03
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XPression API Access to Take Item Colors in Sequencer for Scripting a Macro

Posted By Joshua Coats 06-27-2023 12:33
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Does the API offer any access to a take item's color property? I'd like to build a macro to automate the process. Our live news environment involves a lot of rundowns monitoring on and off every hour, and our operators are constantly color coding by hand. Not to mention, if a rundown is monitored off ...

Using Text Object to select datalinq column for static list

Posted By Joshua Coats 10-07-2022 13:41
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Wondering how to get this macro to work in the Column field. The Table field macro works fine. Is this possible or do I have to find a workaround? ------------------------------ Joshua Coats Newsroom Artist Supervisor Newsy Atlanta United States ------------------------------

RE: Visual Logic Failing for Preview Only

Posted By Joshua Coats 02-23-2022 14:09
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Ah, okay, I think I see what you're getting at. In Viewport and Online you're saying Visual Logic runs for frame 1 and probably has the same errors, but by the time frame 2 runs VL has essentially "stacked" a new run and fixes some of the order errors that must be in my logic. Time to comb through ...

RE: Visual Logic Failing for Preview Only

Posted By Joshua Coats 02-23-2022 13:28
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Is there perhaps a block/operation limit for preview? And I just have too many operations going on? And perhaps that limit is different/doesn't apply for Online rendering? Worth noting, there are no scripts on my scene. I've run into conflicts there before. ------------------------------ Joshua ...

RE: Visual Logic Failing for Preview Only

Posted By Joshua Coats 02-23-2022 13:24
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Hi Simon, Okay, the preview only renders one frame, understood. Still not sure I'm following why I'd be seeing errors in Preview but not Online. And yes, changing the order of the tabs produced different Preview errors, as pictured, but didn't affect Online. I'm wondering why my VL is only failing ...

RE: Visual Logic Failing for Preview Only

Posted By Joshua Coats 02-23-2022 12:37
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btw... even the animated preview will play it out correctly. It's only the initial still preview that fails it seems. ------------------------------ Joshua Coats Newsroom Artist Supervisor Newsy Atlanta United States ------------------------------

Visual Logic Failing for Preview Only

Posted By Joshua Coats 02-23-2022 12:33
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I have built a rather extensive web of visual logic that behaves perfectly when in layout mode and when taken online. However, the preview seems to only be using the visual logic up to a certain point, and then behaves as if portions of it are disabled (comparison below, VO on the left, Preview on the ...

RE: 3-point loop in template video

Posted By Joshua Coats 07-09-2021 14:50
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I know this is 6 years old BUUUT for anyone still wondering... the trick for me was to have a duplicate object (with visibility off) and duplicate material that both act as an input for the original. One set is for my "Clip" and one set is for my "Input". You still put your Clip material into the scene ...