The Toolbar
The Toolbar contains navigation section for DBM, a section for creating new entries and an individually definable section with launch icons for multiple DigaSystem and 3rd party application modules.
The General DBM Tool Buttons
Description | |
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![]() | Login: By means of this button the user calls up the login dialog in order to login or logout of the system. |
![]() | Refresh: Click on this button to refresh the entry list (an automatic refresh interval can be defined; see section Define automatic table Refresh in Table Configuration. |
![]() | Selection dialog: This button calls up the simple selection dialog to enter various search criteria |
![]() | Delete: Calls up the delete dialog for the selected entries (see also Deleting an Entry) |
![]() | Print: Opens the Print template dialog to print out the marked entries (if available). |
![]() | View Browser: Opens a browser window in DBM and a predefined URL. |
Buttons for Creating Entries
![]() | New entry/record: This button displays the recording screen to define and start the recording of a new entry. |
![]() | New text entry: Creates a new entry without audio, that is automatically set to the class "Text" |
![]() | New virtual entry: Creates a new virtual entry. A virtual entry is a placeholder with metadata for a not yet available audio. E.g. this can be used in the DigaSystem module "DigAIRange" as placeholder for a news block and/or be merged with a media entry to pass over the metadata (see Merging Entries) |
![]() | New group: Creates a new group. In a group multiple entries can be thematically put together. |
![]() | New story: Creates a new story. In a story multiple entries can be thematically put together. |
![]() | DigaGrabber: Opens the DigaGrabber module for grabbing Audio CD's into a DigaSystem table. |
![]() | Quickingest: Opens the Quickingest module for importing the video material of specific digital cameras into a DigaSystem table. |
Buttons for Editing / Working on Entries
The following list of application launch buttons shows often used (including some third party applications), but not all possible buttons; except for the Preview and DigaText (commented below with "default") icons all those buttons need to be configured in the DigaSystem Administrator to appear.
![]() | Preview (default) |
![]() | SingleTrack |
![]() | EasyTrack |
![]() | MultiTrack |
![]() | Sequoia |
![]() | DigaText (default) |
![]() | Word Starts MS Word. Word Template needs to be defined with parameter DBM\WordDotFile |
Buttons for Scheduling Entries
![]() | DigAIRange |
![]() | OnAIR TrackMixer Opens the OnAIR TrackMixer (formerly Crossfade Mixer). |
Buttons for Distributing / Archiving Entries
![]() | Replicator Client |
![]() | DigaTransIP |
![]() | DigaTransferSystem Start of DigaTransferSystem |
![]() | Archive |
Colorizing Toolbar Buttons
See Configuring UI Appearance with Themes for buttons listed above
Colors of Custom Action buttons are defined by Configuring Custom Actions.