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Working with Wires

To navigate to wires, use the green-with-plus-sign button > Wires or Home > Wires. You may not have three blue buttons down the side under Main as shown below. That is fine.

Reading the wires

Click anything in the Wires tab to open the Wire Reader in the opposite pane (or in another tab, if your workspace is only one pane).

Use the curved arrow icon in the upper right of the Wire Reader to make a New Document from the text, or highlight some text and make a new document from that:

If the wire search is auto-updating, you'll see a red dot with a number indicating new wires have come in:

Searching the wires

There are two ways to search the wires in Nexus.

Click the search icon in the top right of your screen. Enter your search query. Put it in quotes if you need something very specific. ("Trump indictment" vs. trump indictment, for example.) Choose the Search Wires option:

Alternately, after you type, hit Alt-4 on a PC or Option-4 on a Mac, rather than clicking. The Wires pane will immediately update.

Advanced Searches

You may want to be more specific in your search query. From the wires page, go to the three-dot icon UNDER the green button — NOT the one to the left of it:

Choose Advanced Search:

  • Icon: Identifiable figure to help you recognize the search in the list of all saved searches, defaults to the magnifying glass
  • Naming the search: Referencable name for the search in the list of all saved searches
  • Selecting an item to load the search: Allows you to refine your search to certain streams
  • Updating: Allows search to auto-update with the latest wires
  • Saving the search: Allows you to save and easily reference the same search again and again
  • Terms:
    • With at least one of these words: Any of the words in a comma-separated list
    • With all of these words: All of the words in a comma separated list
    • With the exact phrase: Exactly the phrase as written - not needing the punctuation
    • Without these words: None of the words listed in a comma-separated list
  • Filters: Agencies (The news agency that the wire has come through), Categories (The news section that the wire fell into), Priorities (The priority of the wire as it came through)

Once you click Run, the icon for the search you created will appear in the upper left of the Wires window. You can add as many searches as you want and give them all different icons.

Once you click an icon to open a custom search, you can edit it (Edit Current Stream) or get rid of it (Close Current Stream) with the same three-dot icon you used to create it:

Close Current Stream doesn't just CLOSE the search — it deletes the saved search. Use with caution.

If you find that you have too many saved searches or searching wires is slower than usual, please reach out to IT Support directly (202-513-2980), or file a ticket. Clearing saved searches can improve the speed of Nexus overall.

Adding to Cards

You can add a wire story to a card — either the whole story or a selection — using the curve arrow icon in the upper right of the story:

You can choose New Document - Wire Text or New Document - Highlighted Wire Text.

Then choose the Card (you'll need to have it open in another tab) or start a new one: