Inception Mobile
Remote newsroom access
Free
The Inception mobile app is the portal into your newsroom to aid collaboration and communication from anywhere. This app brings your remote staff closer to your news operations and keeps everyone up to date with the latest information from the field to the control room and vice versa. Write stories on the move or keep in touch with your team via the messenger tool and directly see your assignments. *Requires connection to an Inception system. For more information, please go to rossvideo.com
more Updated dependencies for improved stability and security.
2.2.1 Jan 29
SAML SSO Support.
2.2.0 04/16/2025
Enable biometric authentication.
Added support for Landscape orientation.
Enable additional system and custom columns in rundowns.
Display additional timing info for airing rundowns.
2.1.0 02/28/2024
Features:
Users with the appropriate permissions will be able to:
Browse stories, assignments and running orders by directory.
Browse and search running orders.
See all the running order columns, timing information and the timing bar when the running order is in playout mode.
View and edit running order stories.
Configure running order columns’ visibility, width and order.
Bug Fixes:
Addressed an issue where a leading or trailing space character would impact the ability to search for a user when creating a message
Fixed an issue where production cues in the story body were not displayed in bold.
Fixed an issue where tapping the close icon in message attachments was challenging.
2.0.0 11/30/2023
Fixed an issue where user logins timed out early.
Fixed an issue where excess data was consumed.
1.2.1 04/28/2023
- Users with the appropriate permissions will see all stories or assignments created in Inception, regardless of the directory. These stories and assignments will appear in one single list.
- Users can now open stories from messages or within an assignment list.
- Mobile users can now request approval for broadcast stories from the mobile application.
- Fixed an issue where the create story icon does not appear at times after the mobile application times out.
- Fixed an issue where dynamic updates to an assignee do not appear as expected.
1.2 02/16/2023
This release includes security improvements and bug fixes.
1.1.1 12/06/2022
Features:
- Persist login credentials via remember me toggle, any succession attempts to log into the app will not require them to enter their credentials.
- Allow users to select an email address and have their phone’s native/default email application open the information.
- Allow users to select a phone number and have their phone's native/default phone application open the information.
- Allow users to select an address and have their phone's native/default map application open the information.
Bug Fixes:
- User not able to dismiss keyboard by taping outside text input on the login screen.
- Assignment details – Multiline content is rendered as one line.
- Message attachment – Black background appears intermittently in the image preview when the image is not loaded.
- Session expired modal appears when the user loses internet connectivity.
- Unrecoverable error in release mode when the user logs in.
- When the user expands on the selected body the expansion is not consistent with the gesture iOS.
- Assignment removed modal appears when the session is expired in assignment view details.
- Password field is hidden behind the keypad when there is an error on the login screen.
- Multi-day assignments do not appear in the app after the start date has passed.
- Message attachment – User cannot load an image when the image size is large.
- Story editor – When the user toggles between SOT and INST then the changes are applied to untargeted data.
- Story editor – Text auto deselects when the user selects SOT or Inst.
- Story viewer – Story body scrolls with just tapping on the body.
- Story viewer – When a user is offline edit slug button should not be visible and the edit button body should be disabled.
- Messages – Back button on the Conversation Details screen makes the conversation go to the top of the list.
- Stories – When a user is creating a story the swipe-down gesture is enabled.
- View assignment attachment card – All attachment types not covered.
- Auto-suggest keeps building when the user continues typing after exceeding the field character limit.
- Stories – Text is cut at the end of a sentence in certain cases.
- Placeholder/cursor position top margin is larger than expected on the body editor.
- The first word of auto-suggest is not displayed on the body editor.
- Selecting text and then pasting doesn't replace text on the body editor.
- Native BIU formatting options are not disabled on the body editor.
- Selecting BIU formatting options in a new line switches keyboard casing to lowercase on the body editor.
- Long press of the space bar to move the cursor position does not maintain the button (BIU/SOT/INST) state.
1.1.0 10/12/2022
In this 1.0.1 release, we've made improvements to the story viewing and editing feature, messages, and performance of the app so you can have a better experience.
1.0.1 06/28/2022
Updated dependencies for improved stability and security.
more Version 2.2.1 Jan 29
Data Not Collected The developer does not collect any data from this app.