Introduction

Welcome to CUE, Escenic's new browser-based application for newsroom staff! CUE is intended to become Escenic's primary interface for all newsroom staff, and will eventually replace Content Studio. CUE is a joint CCI-Escenic project and will be capable of acting as an interface to CCI Newsgate systems as well as Escenic systems, so for newsrooms that use both CCI Newsgate and Escenic, it will provide a highly productive integrated interface to both systems.

This first version of CUE allows Escenic users to:

• Create and edit content

• Upload images and other binary content

• Drag and drop / cut and paste content from external systems such as Microsoft Word, Excel, browsers etc.

• Add relations to content items

• Tag content items

• Add content items to sections

• Add content items to lists (but not inboxes)

• Publish content items

You will still need to use Content Studio to:

• Edit sections

• Edit section pages

• Edit images, video and audio content (but you can upload and publish these content types from CUE)

• Insert in-line images into content items (but you can view and edit content items that already contain in-line images in CUE)

• Edit Widget Framework templates

• Desk content items on section pages

In other words, this first version of CUE is a tool for journalists and other content creators. Publication designers and editorial staff will most likely need to use Content Studio at least some of the time.