Viewing the Content Window

To view the complete news item, click the item's slug or thumbnail image (if the slug is disabled on the Account Settings page) to display the entire content in a separate window known as the Content window.

The textual information may differ depending on the media type. For instance, video items include a Script and Shotlist section, which is not relevant for other media. Because many audio stories have the same slug, they are further identified by an audio cut number displayed in the Summary section.

Most media items display or play automatically when the Content window opens.

For these items..	Do this. from the Content window..
AP Online Video Network (OVN) videos	Click View in OVN Player to play the item with OVN's video player. Click Select All to copy the OVN Player URL and paste it in an XML or HTML file or in a Web browser's URL box.
NBC Olympics videos	Click View on NBC Web site at top to play the item from NBC's Web site using the Microsoft Silverlight video player. If you have not downloaded MS Silverlight, you are prompted to do so. Click Install and follow the instructions to download the Silverlight player.
Interactives	Click Play Interactive at top to run the item.

The Content Pane

The Content pane contains two or more sections of information that cannot be displayed in a single window view. To display the rest of the content information, use either the scroll bar to the right or click the content section heading to jump right to the section.

Use the more>> and <<previous links (or the Page box) to navigate through the displayed media results in the Suggested/Related Media pane. For instance, if you display a story with four suggested stories and two related photos, use either the more>> and <<previous links or the Page box to scroll through all of the suggested and related items for this story.

At the top of the Content pane are links for the following distribution methods:

History. Click this link to display a popup window containing the download history of this item. You can see which colleagues within your own organization have also downloaded this same item.

This popup menu also appears when you click a news item's icon from a media tab.

Print. Click this link to send the content to a printer.

Email. Click this link to display an e-mail section at the top of the Content pane. In this section, enter the e-mail address of the intended recipient(s). Separate multiple e-mail addresses with a comma. Enter an optional message to include in the e-mail and click Send Email.

The e-mail recipient will receive an e-mail with the subject line, "News from Associated Press." The e-mail sender is identified by either the contact's Email Address setting on the Account Settings page or (if this setting is blank) by "noreply.apexchange@ap.org."

By default, the format of the e-mail is TXT. However, you can send an HTML-formatted e-mail by selecting HTML from the Download menu before clicking Send Email.

Edit (if enabled). Click this link to display the current Text story in Edit Mode. In this mode, you can modify the story's text prior to saving it to your local machine. You can only edit Text stories.

Edit Mode supports the Cut, Copy and Paste keyboard shortcuts, as well as HTML and other special tags entered at the keyboard. Click Cancel to reset the story to its original version.

Modified content file name format	<slug>_<user name>.<extension>
Example	BC-BKN--Nets_ckent.txt

When you navigate away from a story in Edit Mode (such as clicking a Suggested or Related story link), a warning message appears to inform you to confirm your cancel action.

Save. Click this link to display a File Download window that allows you to either:

Open a print-ready version (for text, photos or graphics) or full version (for videos) of the content
Download the content to either your local hard drive or a server in your network.

Content is opened or saved in the format you selected from the Download Preferences page.

Content file name format	<slug>.<extension>
Example	BC-Iran-Nuclear.nitf

Media Type	Possible Format Types	Applications that Open the Media
Text	TXT, HTML, NITF XML, DOC, ANPA* *ANPA content expires after three days. If you select expired content, a message appears to inform you that content is no longer available.	TXT, ANPA: Notepad, WordPad HTML/XML: Your default Web browser (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer) DOC: Microsoft Word
Photo	JPEG	JPEG: Your default graphics program (such as Adobe Photoshop)
Graphic	Illustrator, FreeHand, PDF	Illustrator: Adobe Illustrator FreeHand: Macromedia FreeHand PDF: Adobe Acrobat
Video	Flash Video, QuickTime, Real Video, Windows Media	Flash Video: Adobe Flash Player QuickTime: QuickTime Player Real Video: RealPlayer Windows Media: Windows Media Player
Audio	MP3, MPEG, Real Audio, Waveform Audio (WFA)	MP3/MPEG/Real Audio/WFA: Your default audio player (such as RealPlayer or Windows Media Player)
Interactives	ZIP (varying combination of HTML, SWF, MP3 and other files)	ZIP: Your default Web browser (to play the index.html file) and Adobe Flash/Shockwave Player

Note: You must have the correct media application(s) loaded on your machine to open their associated files.

Important: All documents in AP Exchange are the property of the Associated Press. Distributing these documents to third parties may infringe on AP's copyright. Please contact your AP representative for more information.

Suggested/Related Media Pane

The Suggested/Related Media pane displays media items that share a relationship to the displayed item. Suggested content is linked by an AP editorial staff member. It is denoted by a red dot and includes such items as accompanying photos or graphics. Related content is computer-matched content that is based on relevance using keywords, headlines and other criteria. It is denoted by a half grayed dot .

The media items are further divided into separate sections based on media type. The number of suggested and/or related items for the active media type (with the red highlighting) is indicated next to the media type.

Click View beside a media type to display its suggested and/or related media item titles and/or thumbnails in this pane. Click the associated item link or thumbnail to display the entire news item in the Content pane.

If the system is running slow, the suggested and related media items may take a few seconds to display in this pane. This animation appears until the content is retrieved.

Unentitled/OUTed Content

Your organization is entitled to view content for the AP products and services to which you are subscribed. However, based on your contract agreement, there may be certain types of news that is typically associated with an AP service that you may not be entitled to see. These non-entitled news items are considered OUTed content. To determine whether OUTed content exists:

Search for a story with linked media.

Open the story's Content window.
Compare the total number of suggested items with the number of content links in the File Name (Transref) row of the Summary details. You will need to click View for each media type to obtain the total number of suggested items.

If there are more Transref links than suggested items, you have found OUTed content.

Click the links to see which items are OUTed. Clicking a link to an OUTed item opens a separate Content window with a message similar to the following:

If you feel that an item is OUTed in error, please contact AP Customer Support.