I’d like to make a feature request to allow the TotalCMS Asset Manager to place a Collection asset onto an InDesign page.

Collections are the ideal asset type for photo-only “wildart” packages that make it into print and go online.

These typically have either no text or just a short copy block that accompanies a layout dominated by the photographs. As such using an Article Asset to get them online just looks silly and isn’t the most effective presentation tool.

Right now we’re having to create both an article for the print side (making sure it is set to not publish online) and then a Collection for the web. Duplicating our efforts of attaching photos, etc.

This is something we’d utilize multiple times per week and I think would benefit other TotalCMS users as well.

Please let me know what y’all think.

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This would allow us to add more of the headline or tagline to our tweet. It will also make the tweet look more authentic on our Twitter feed. BLOX generates decent URLs by default, but they are long for Twitter. Does anyone else find this to be an issue?

At our December webinar, Jon Winters, BLOX Total CMS product architect, will give an exclusive look at the latest improvements, updates and additions to BLOX Total CMS!

Topics will include:
- New social media broadcast tool lets you post to Facebook and Twitter via your
BLOX CMS site.
- Updated depth count displays page previews without trimming and notes.
- Improved organization of agate-based assets within the syndication tool.
- Time-saving updates make print trimming accessible from within the browser interface.

Join us on Thursday, Dec. 3rd at 10:30 AM CST.

We have 2 papers who share Blox TCMS. We would like to have a site tag selection in Blox Go so that articles submitted by reporters that way end up on the correct website. Currently, articles make it into TCMS but won't make their way anywhere onto the web because there's no way to select which site the article belongs on. Or, if articles are submitted in the CMS Blox Go, they aren't available in TCMS for both papers to use.

Is there a way to trigger a second round of Social Broadcasts from the same article?

This would be useful for stories that receive a major update with new information.

Thanks

We'd like to do a "wrap-around" ad for the website that sits behind the main content. For example, the area in this image...

This is very common among websites these days so I think TownNews would definitely be keeping with the current trends by developing this ad position.

Is there a reason for having the timestamp dropdown use EVERY minute of the day when scheduling calendar entries? This is apparent on the front and back end of Blox.

I can't think of an instance that I've ever seen a public event that had any other timestamps than on the hour, 1/2 hour, (or quarter hour.) It's a drag having to scroll up or down through all those minutes to set your event times.

Or am I just off-base here?

What's the correct way to edit the CSS in FLEX and use the "CSS instance" option in the customization options?

Looking to make changes that will affect only one page.

Is there anyway to change/reload the advertising display on a page without a page reload?

I've got a dynamically generate page on our site, in this case a database of restaurant inspections: http://bit.ly/1NNqsHk. The content is update via an ajax call without a page reload. However, while the content updates the ad units obviously don't.

Writing the code to trigger an update via the DFP API looks straight forward, but how that interacts with the various Blox components looks intimidating.

I'm hoping there's a way to do this without getting that far under the hood.

Thanks Much

Trying to include flags in Utility: Search Form so that users of the can search for calendar events flagged "family-friendly", "featured", etc.

We've had a number of people have their credit card expire during their subscriptions. So when it's time to renew they are notified their card has expired. The only problem is there's no way to update their card info and have the system carry on with the renewal. They have to either call us or know to make a new subscription. It would be nice to have a place to update their card, whether their account needs to be renewed or even if they're updating it way before their account is set to renew. If the system has tried once but failed due to an expired card and then the user updates their card it would be great if the system recognizes the new card and sees that as a prompt to retry the renewal transaction.

A few print advertisers pulled back, becouse they could post their event for free in out calendar. I allowed it. How do you deal with this, or do you even come across this isse much?

I would like to request a static block similar to "text promo" or "promo" that would include a WYSIWYG editor. This would be very handy for building emails or other static content pieces.

I was told you guys are pushing more towards static for these types of things instead of creating unnecessary assets that are being indexed and html is just not as easy for bulleted list, text formatting etc

Thank you.

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