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Understanding your Right-Click Menu – Designations

A lot of OnCue's features are accessible in right-click menus for various files and work product. If you're ever in doubt about what you can with something–just right-click it.

Here is a list of articles that show all of the right-click menus in the program:

Documents (including the Viewer pane with a document showing)

Audiovisuals (including the Viewer pane with an audiovisual file showing)

Transcripts (including the Transcript Viewer pane)

Designations

Media Scripts

Notebooks


Designation List Level:


(1) Publish

Start playing the list in Presentation – will continue to intended stop

(2) Publish as Text Only

Start playing the scrolling text only (no video) in Presentation – will continue to intended stop

(3) Copy

Copy your entire list – into Notebook, Media Script, even another list

(4) Edit Name and ID...

As described - change the ID/Name of the Designation List

(5) Delete

Careful - no undo

(6) Reports

3 options – See Deposition Designation Reports

(7) Import

All options for imports available – not tied to designations

(8) Export

See Exporting Designation Lists

(9) Add

Add to existing (list provided) or create new

(10) Add to Notebook

See Bates Numbering – Filling & Importing for options

(11) Assign Highlighter

As described - change highlighter for full list

(12) Automatic Advance

Change the way your designation list plays – auto or launch each clip one at time

(13) Hide

As described - Presentation mode

(14) Merge Page-to-Page

If a designation ends at the last line of a page and the next designation starts on the first line of the following page, this will merge them together (for example, 23:1-25 and 24:1-17 becomes 23:1-24:17)

(15) Remove Overlapping Lines...

Remove overlapping portions of designations. See Overlapping or Duplicate Designation Removal

(16) Create New Designation List from Selection...

Create new list from existing list

(17) Split Designation List...

Breaks up your list – See Split Designation List

(18) Edit in Designation Wizard

Opens your list in the Wizard

(19) Renumber IDs

Move designations, sort or delete – Keep your IDs consecutive using this

(20) Sort

Many options – See Sorting Designations Lists

Designation Clip Level:


(1) Publish

Start playing the list in Presentation – will continue to intended stop

(2) Publish as Text Only

Start playing the scrolling text only (no video) in Presentation – will continue to intended stop

(3) Copy

Copy selected designation – into Notebook, Media Script, even another list

(4) Delete

Careful - no undo

(5) Import

All options for imports available – not tied to designations

(6) Export

See Exporting Designation Lists

(7) Insert Designations Before...

Insert before existing designation by typing

(8) Insert Designations After...

Insert after existing designation by typing

(9) Add to Notebook

Selected designations copied to notebook or create a new notebook

(10) Assign Highlighter

As described – change selected designations

(11) Automatic Advance

Change the way your designation plays – turning off (left) – stop after that designation

(12) Hide Scrolling Text

As described - Presentation Mode

(13) Merge Page-to-Page

If a designation ends at the last line of a page and the next designation starts on the first line of the following page, this will merge them together (for example, 23:1-25 and 24:1-17 becomes 23:1-24:17)

(14) Create New Designation List from Selection...

Create new list from existing list

(15) Renumber IDs

Move designations, sort or delete – Keep your IDs consecutive using this

(16) Sort

Many options – See Sorting Designations Lists


(1) Publish

Start playing in presentation from selected designation – will continue to intended stop

(2) Show in Windows File Explorer

As described – opens file location in Windows

(3) Copy

Copy selected link to paste into another designation

(4) Delete

Careful - no undo

(5) Import

All options for imports available – not tied to designations

(6) Export

See Exporting Designation Lists