Importing Designation Lists
Articles > Designations
July 12, 2023 at 9:58:02 PM
Designation Lists can be imported two ways, text file and OnCue XMLs from other cases.
Text Files can be a very quick way to load a lot of designations all at once. The format is not complex, and it does not necessarily have to be precise to be successful. Any text editor can be used to create the file, but it does need to have some basic information and must be saved as a *.txt file (comma delimited, tab delimited, plain text.)
To create the import you must have headers in your text file. Media ID, Transcript ID, a Transcript Highlighter Color Number. All headers must be contained in brackets [].
Import file sample.
The first header with “ID=” indicates the line contains the Media ID and/or Name. The first space separates the Media ID and name.
So the first header looks like this - [ID=V1 Bart Defense Affirmatives]
In OnCue it ends up like this.
The second header line contains the Transcript ID. When you look at the Transcripts tab in OnCue that is the ID/Name - [Transcript=Jain, David 2011-12-19]
You can copy this information from the Transcript tab by clicking on your transcript and at the bottom of the screen expand the arrow.
The final header identifies the highlighter color to be used for the designations directly below it. “HL=” should be followed by the number or the title of the desired color (see Explaining Transcript Highlighters for a more details). If no color is chosen, the default is 1.
[hl=2] or [hl=Defense Affirmatives]
Following the header, begin listing each designation, with one designation on each line. We realized that you rarely get clean files so we wanted to minimize the issues as much as possible. Import text files can be tab delimited, comma delimited, space delimited, colons and dashes and even look like the list below. OnCue ignores the extra stuff and focuses on numbers. Single page lines are okay and OnCue recognizes when there is a page followed by two different line numbers.
