 Hi, my name is Andy Colborne. I'm the training manager here at Riedel. Welcome to the Riedel Academy to go a short video that will help you understand how to get a certain function working in your Riedel product. If you want to go a bit deeper and find out more about the technology that makes our systems work, then please do head over to the Riedel website and click on the Academy section. There we have all kinds of sessions from webinars to presentations, workshops, interactive online trainings. We also do in-person trainings. So thank you for watching this video, and we really hope to see you soon. Hello and welcome to this Riedel how to series. We're glad you're here in this video. We're going to be talking about groups. Now, the first question you might be asking yourself is what is a group? Well, a group is a way that one person can talk to multiple destinations simultaneously. So let's say, for example, the control room on a news program is still waiting for a certain clip to come in, and they don't know which of the edit suites is currently working on that clip. They can call to the group of edit suites to ask who's working on the clip. How long will it take? Are we going to be too late? Is it going to be there on time? And all of the edit suites are going to hear that call. But then the one edit suite that is working on the clip that needs to be there straight away can reply to the control room and can say, yep, almost finished in 30 seconds, it will be ready for broadcast. We could also have the situation where there is a group of runners and someone needs a runner to go off and run an errand and they don't know who's free at the minute, so they just call the group of runners and all of the runners hear that call and then the first one to reply saying that they're free would then talk to the person who needs some help. And the advantage of doing this through a group is that the reply will only go back to the original speaker and not to everyone who's a member of the group so that we're not disturbing people unnecessarily. In a way, you can think of a call to a group as if it's lots and lots of call to ports, which have all been stacked onto the same key. So if you're not sure what a call to port is, then please do check out our video on call to port. But when we do a group, what we're effectively doing is putting multiple call to ports on one key, but by doing it in a group, it makes a lot easier to program. So if we want to do that, we need to go into director and in the navigation bar, we're going to go to the groups and conferences tab, which we'll have up here. And then we'll start by adding a group. Now, let's say we want to make the edit suites for the news program so that the director or the control room is able to call up and see what's happening. So we will put here edit suites and then we also should give it an eight character names that it will appear on the displays. And so we'll just call that edits. Once we've done that, we say we need to define the members. So if we go to the list here, we could add a port and just pick from the list. So let's say edit suite one. OK, and now they're in there. A much quicker way, however, to do it is to go to the network list in the navigation bar and then we can just drag and drop different panels in there. So now we've got a group of six edit suites. We say, OK, and that is confirmed. The group now exists. However, we need to program a way that people can call it. Now, there are two ways of doing this. If we go to the director's panel, we can either go back to our groups and conferences tab in the navigation bar and then we can take the group of edit suites and just drag and drop that to a port on the panel or we can right click on a key and we'll say add function, make it a call to group. And then we need to select the group from the list at the moment. The only one we have is edit suites and then we're going to say, OK. So now we have two buttons that are doing the identical thing, which, of course, would not be practical, but it shows you the two ways that this can be programmed. Similarly, if we want to program the group of runners, then again, we would add a group. We would call it this time runners. And the eight characters, actually runners is seven characters. So that will fit as well. And then we'll go to members. And as we said before, the quickest way is just to pull the panels in directly with drag and drop. So once I've got the first two in, I had three and four. Now we have our group, which is complete. And then again, to get it onto the, let's say, audio engineers panel, just to change things up a little bit. Then I'm going to go to the groups and conferences tab that I can take runners and just with a drag and drop that puts it onto the key and enables the audio engineer to call the group of runners. And then out of the runners, whichever one replies, it will only come back to the audio engineer without disturbing the other runners. Thank you for watching this video on groups. Please free to comment below. And if you don't want to miss any future video releases, please make sure you subscribe. Cheers.