The Enabling of Editorial and Technical Channels toggle switch in the Global settings lets you to enable and disable a channel including all its associated Technical channels. This facility may be useful to quickly take channels out of service in an emergency.
To disable a channel and all the associated Technical channels:
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Display the required Editorial channel in Edit mode.
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Select the Global Settings and click the Enabling of Editorial and Technical Channels toggle switch to OFF.
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Click the SAVE CHANGES button. The channel will now be removed from the ION interface.
To re-enable a channel:
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Display the required Editorial channel in Edit mode.
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Select the Global Settings and click the Enabling of Editorial and Technical Channels toggle switch to ON.
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Click the SAVE CHANGES button. The channel will now be available again in ION.
Technical channels are restored with a validity start date of the current day, and an open-end date; the previous values will be deleted. To re-enter the validity start and end dates, see
Editing and deleting channels.