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The Dynamic Fields Pre-Structured offers a convenient interface where you can pre-manage custom fields and data. Chameleon offers you the ability to define and organize all of your dynamic fields custom data into human-readable, easily easy to navigate groups and fields which makes both manual and automated data population straightforward and easy. In addition, your organized dynamic data can include your own customized .

Customized labels, called Display Names . These customized labels are an optional setting your Chameleon administrator can enable are enabled for display by a Chameleon administrator using a System Preference key called Dynamic Fields > Use Display Names.

The advantage of taking the time to set up and organize your custom-labelled dynamic field hierarchy is having a well-thought out interface that is easy to populate and quick to review regardless of whether you choose to automate or manually manage the datawhen managing your custom data. It can help to ensure that desired fields are included.

You can create various groups and assign them to data types such as (Story, TopicTraffic, League, Team, Game, Mediaetc.)

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Notes:

The key to dynamic data organization is consistency and forethought. The Automation Name values you assign in Chameleon for your dynamic fields and groups must match any will be used in your scene templates.

Optionally group names can match an external data feed's parser configuration for data automation. An external parser requires both the group's automation name and the field's automation name to correctly populate the correct dynamic field in your hierarchy so that it appears correctly in the Chameleon content module with the correct Display Name label.

You can make your dynamic fields freely available in Chameleon, or you can specify which content group your dynamic fields are available to in Chameleon. See the topic on Content Groupsfor details.

Add a Dynamic Field Group

  1. Click the ➕ Add Group button.

  2. Enter group information:
    Display Name - the display label you want to see displayed in Chameleon for this dynamic field group when you are viewing it in a Chameleon content module.
    Name - used both for

    incoming

    data feed parsing and in graphics to associate the tag with an object in the scene.
    Default Module - the type of data that will typically use this group. Eg. Stories. This is also used to automatically filter the available fields in the dynamic field editor for quick access to the most relevant dynamic fields for the content at hand.
    Content Group - this is the same content grouping feature used throughout Chameleon to organize your content and provide access to users appropriately.

  3. Click the 💾 Save button

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Add a Dynamic Field For a Group

Select a group from the list.

  1. Click the ➕ Add Field button

  2. Enter field information:
    Display Name - the display label you want to see displayed in Chameleon for this dynamic field when you are viewing it in a Chameleon content module.
    Name - used both for

    incoming

    data feed parsing and in graphics to associate the tag with an object in the scene.
    Type -  choose Text, Number, or Toggle, etc

  3. Click the checkmark ✅ button to save.

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Dynamic Field Types

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Support for a single line of input

May contain letters as well as numbers

Eg. 3rd or 45 or 56.60 or $6700

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See the page Dynamic Field Types

Edit a dynamic group or field

  1. Click the Edit (pencil) button

     to

     to modify a group or field at any time. 

  2. Click 💾 Save button to save your changes.

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Note: Changes made to the Name for either groups or fields can impact configured incoming data feeds as well as graphics data.

Ordering Dynamic Fields

The display order of the dynamic fields can be controlled by using drag-n-drop of the fields to put them into the desired order.