Account Settings Pages

Account Settings (Profile/News Interest)

This page allows you to specify your user profile details and news interests.

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Settings:

First Name/Last Name

Enter your first and last names.

Email (User Name)

Enter your e-mail address, which becomes your new AP Exchange user name.

Phone/Fax

Enter your telephone and fax numbers. If you have a telephone extension, enter it in the Ext box.

Job Function

Enter your job function/title.

Years in Job

(Optional) Enter how many years you worked at this job.

Date Format

Select how you would like AP Exchange to represent the date and time (Western, European, Default=Western).

Time Zone

Select your local time zone; AP Exchange will use this selection to interpret time for your location.

News section of interest

Select all news categories that interest you.

Reset Password

This page allows you to change your AP Exchange password.

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Setting:

New Password / Confirm Password

Enter the new AP Exchange password (5-12 characters). Enter it again into the Confirm Password box.

Customize Home Page

This page allows you to customize the AP Exchange home page.

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Settings:

Number of Items Displayed

Select the default number of news items per page (5, 10, 20 or 30) to display in each media pane. If needed, click <<previous and more>> in the media pane to page through items.

Fields Displayed

Select the metadata fields to display in the media panes. The available metadata is based on the media type.

Note: The Advance/HFR Note option (Hold for Release notes) is not available to all customers.

Content released in the last

Select how long ago the displayed news was posted (1 Day, 3 Days, 1 Week, 2 Weeks or Max=(30 days for text / 3 days for audio / 2 weeks for other media).

Refresh content every

Select how often AP Exchange updates the media panes with the latest news (1 minute, 3 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes) or select Manually to manually refresh the media panes.

Download Preferences

This page allows you to specify your default file formats for bulk downloading. Select your preferred option for each media type.

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Note: Clean Text vs. Plain Text - Plain text (.TXT) files include line spacing between paragraphs. Clean text (.TXT) files remove the line spacing between paragraphs.