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New Media Types
AP Exchange now offers audio and interactives (interactive Flash demonstrations or presentations) content. -
New Save and Refresh Search Buttons
The Save Search and Refresh Search links have been replaced with new buttons. -
New Topic Portlets in the Left Column
The Links and Resources portlet displays links to external Web sites and database resources; the Digital Portlet (where enabled) displays AP Digital topics. -
Narrow Search Results by Browsing AP Topics
After running a search, users can now narrow their results even further by selecting a specific news topic from the Browse Topics tab in the Left Column. -
Date and Time Localization
Previously, AP Exchange displayed U.S. date and time formats for all content. Now, AP Exchange allows users to set their preferred date and local time formats, making content dates and times appear according to your settings. -
View Text Stories Up to 30 Days Old
AP Exchange now allows you to search for Text stories that are up to 30 days old; however, still only up to two weeks for all other media types. -
View 2008 Olympic Sports and State Athlete Stories
The Essential AP portlet contains a new category under Sports entitled "Olympics" that allows users to access stories on each 2008 Olympic sport and (where enabled) each state's Olympic athletes. -
Watch NBC Olympic Videos
Users can now search for NBC video coverage of the 2008 Olympics and play them from NBC's Web site using the Microsoft Silverlight player. -
Welcome AP Digital and AP Broadcast Customers!
AP Exchange is now available to AP Digital and AP Broadcast customers. However, not all features are available to all customers. Various sections of this guide indicate whether a feature is available to a specific customer type. -
Viewing and Contributing of AP Member Content
AP Newspaper members can use the Marketplace feature to freely share news content with other participating AP members. -
Managing Passwords
Users designated as managers can reset passwords for temporary user accounts. -
Setting Messages
Users designated as managers can change the Login page message and the announcement message on the home page. -
Saved Search Sharing
Share your saved searches with other AP Exchange users within your organization. -
Company Names for Stock Ticker Symbols
Assign a descriptive or company label to the ticker symbols that you created. -
Pagination for Search Results
Navigate to a specific page by entering its page number. -
Download History for News Items
View your organization's download history for a specific news item. -
User Administration Page
Site Administrators and Bureau Chiefs can perform basic user administration functions for users within their organization(s). -
Advance/Hold for Release (HFR) Default Setting
All users can receive advanced or Hold for Release (HFR) content. By default, the ADV/HFR setting on the Account Settings page is now enabled. -
Syndication Feed Server URL Change
When you click the Feeds icon
for a saved search item, the feed URL now correctly points to
the AP WebFeeds Server. -
Manage button in the Navigation bar
The Saved Searches button has been replaced by the Manage button, which allows you to manage your saved searches, local companies and watch lists. -
Watch List Management Page
You now have another way to perform watch list management functions. -
Watch List Sharing
You can now share your watch lists with other AP Exchange users within your organization. -
My Companies Portlet
Click a ticker symbol from this portlet to search for all current financial news related to the company. -
My Local Companies Management Page
You can view all of the stock ticker symbols created by you and your fellow organization users and choose the ticker symbols that you want to appear in the My Companies portlet. -
Search History Portlet
For your current login session, AP Exchange saves a listing of all searches that you ran from the Search box. -
Contact Us Link
Click this new link (next to the Logout link) to view general AP information and contact details for editorial and technical support.