Viewing the Media Tabs

The Media tabs allow you to select which media type (text, photos, graphics, video, interactives or video, depending on your customer entitlements) to display in the Center column for all entitled products, saved searches or simple search results. You can only display one media type at a time. The default media type becomes your previously selected tab.

Move the mouse over a tab's title to display the number of items per page that AP Exchange will display. A value of (0) indicates that no matches were found for that media type. You can change the number of displayed items per page via the Account Settings page.

Refreshing the Search Results

Current Search Name/Path

The current search name area indicates which search results are displayed in the Center column. The current search name can be either:

• Your default news category (selected from the Essential AP or the AP Product portlet); this search category is designated as your default search. You can change this by setting a saved search as your default search via the My Saved Searches page.
• The keyword(s) or expression used to perform the search
• The path and title of a news item or saved search that was selected from the Left column; for example:

For AP Newspaper customers: To display the top news headlines for Essential AP's International category, the path and name that will display in this area is International - Top Headlines.

For AP Digital customers: To display celebrity news stories for AP Product's Entertainment Online category, the path and name that will display in this area is Entertainment Online- Celebrities.

For AP Broadcast customers: To display sport scores within Essential AP's Sports category, the path and name that will display in this area is Sports - Sports Scores.

Point to this label to display a tool tip that reveals one or more of the following information about the current search:

1. • The search criteria (such as keywords, boolean expressions and selected products)
   • How long ago the oldest content displayed in the Center column was posted
   • The product IDs (Source) that comprise the news category

When you perform one or more Search within results or Pinpoint searches, the current search name/path changes to a linked "search breadcrumb" trail:

• Search Within Results example:

• Pinpoint/AP Subject selection example:

Click any link in this trail to return to that previous search.

Save or Modify Search

Whether the current search is a newly entered search or a saved search, click Save This Search to modify its search criteria and/or create a saved search on the Save Search page (resembles the Advanced Search page).

Number of Search Results

The number of search results displayed in the media panes is set according to the Number of Items Displayed section on the Account Settings page. The number of matching results found by the search is displayed on the media pane, along with the number of items that the pane is currently showing. Use the more>> and <<previous links or the Page box at the top and bottom of each pane to navigate through the search results.

Dayparted News (For Broadcast users only)

Depending on your organization's entitlements, some users may only receive news from certain text and audio products for part of the day. This is known as dayparting. In this instance, you will only see news from these products that occurred during the time of the day that your organization purchased. However, AP Exchange will still offer bulletins, flashes, urgents and weather 24 hours a day.

The dayparts are:

Selecting News Items

Enable the check box to the left or above any news item to perform selected content previewing or bulk (multiple file) downloads. For more information, see Bulk Downloads.

Keyword Searches

If keywords are used in your search criteria, they will be highlighted in red in the story summary (as well as in the story text in the Content window).

Metadata Content

The metadata content displayed within the media panes (such as content date, time, slug, headline, friendly key, transref number, priority and word count) and the content refresh rate are also set via the Account Settings page.

Story Revisions

A story with prior revisions is indicated by the icon in the Text pane next to the date and time. Click the icon to display the headlines of the prior story revisions below. Click a headline to see its Content window.

Click the icon again to hide the prior revision headlines.

Story Headlines and Summaries

By default, AP Exchange displays a story's headline and its summary in the Text pane. To hide the story summaries, click Headline.

Click Summary to re-display the story summaries in the Text pane.

Content Icons

Download History Icon

Linked Media Icons

If a story has suggested (linked) media (such as accompanying photos and/or graphics), the linked media icon appears to the right of the headline.

For more information about suggested or related media items, see Viewing the Content Window.

Watch List Icon

To add a news item to your active watch list, click . If you do not have any watch lists created, AP Exchange places the news item in an automatically generated watch list.

For information about watch lists, see Right Column - View Alerts and Manage Watch Lists.

Download Icon

To download a news item to your local machine:

1. Click and select a file format from the menu that appears.

Result: The File Download dialog appears. Notice that "_<the first four letters of your last name>" is appended to the end of the news item's file name.

2. Click Save or OK.
   Result: The Save As dialog appears.

3. (If necessary) Browse to the directory where you would like to save the file; then click Save.

For an alternate way to download content, see Viewing the Content Window.