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Provide drop-down list of businesses in block query
If I do a search on classifieds in the asset manager, I get a drop-down list of business names. I can narrow the list by typing the first few letters of the name. However, if I'm setting up a query for a block, business is just "equal to" a blank line. Apparently undocumented is that you can put the business ID in there, but it's not obvious how to find the ID. Why not provide the same behavior as in the asset manager?
eEdition block - query by title and display full
Can you add the option to querying eEdition by "title" with "is" and "contains" settings?
Also, add an option to display with no crop but also full width for eEdition as well?
Static Email Blocks
Are there static blocks for email in the new email templates?
If not, can we get some for placing images and text (WYSIWYG)?
eEdition - Date Picker / Calendar / Advanced Search
We have request from readers to bring back the date picker on the eEdition index page and add one within the application itself.
Better control over length of asset preview/lead
I realize the reporters/editors could be adding an online lead in the summary tab, but sometimes I feel like it's a good day if everything has the proper section tag and start date/time. Asking them to add this to their workflow will most likely be met with hostility. And I also realize I could go in and add my own lead to the offending assets, but so much in BLOX flows with such fluidity and ease...So why can't this?
If there's another way to do this please let me know.
Ad at the bottom of page
Is there an ad region like the Halloween ad at the bottom of this site?
If it doesn't load hopefully this screenshot will explain the location of the ad.
It stays at the bottom of the page as the user scrolls. I've never seen this ad region so I suspect it is a custom template. But it would be nice to have it as a standard BLOX region.
On our Flex templates we do have this as a built-in "block" ad type - we call it an anchor ad.
For Zen, we don't have anything built-in, but if you put in a Customer Support ticket, we have some example code that can help you with this. You'd have to do one size for desktop, and another for Touch 5.
And thanks Mike for your help! =)
Calendar RSS feed
Here's a sample feed from the calendar in question:
http://www.hutchnews.com/
Sorting based on Last Modify Time
In the editorial assets manager, you can sort assets according to the Start Time but not Last Modify Time. If I do an upload on October 3 at 9:46 a.m., for example, it would be helpful to be able to sort by Last Modify Time to see all the assets that were in that upload so I can more quickly add them to different sections, add flags, etc. The uploaded assets often come through with different Start Times because of when they were created or placed for our print edition, but even when they all have the same Start Time they are scattered through the editorial assets manager. I can't do a Search based on the Last Modify Time either—only the Start Date. Can this functionality be added?
"Facebook Official" block not applying customizations
I'm trying to edit the "External: Facebook Official" block's template customizations but it doesn't seem to be responding to the changes. For instance, I'd like to not show the faces of people who like our Facebook page. So I turn off "Show Faces" but it still shows the faces. There's also a "Maximum rows" option that is supposed to limit the number of rows of faces to display. I set it to 0 and I still get a row of faces. If I switch the "Plugin type" to "Activity Feed" instead of "Like Box" I get nothing.
So I'm not sure if Facebook's code changed but the block doesn't seem to be responding to the same options it used to.
Chat Program Suggestions
We miss the chat program from our old system. Can anyone suggest chat programs that they use with Total CMS?
Spell check suggestions are also welcome. Thank you.
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Two lines in Byline area
The field in BLOX obviously allows multiple lines to be entered, however it "compresses" them into a single line on the public side of the site as seen here:
http://www.galvnews.com/opinion/editorials/free/article_3c505918-ef95-11e4-9cee-ebb2d7e87422.html
Please let me know if there is a way to do this already or if not consider it as a feature request.
Thanks
Flex and DFP
Am I able to preview DFP Flex blocks? I don't see the ad firing in preview. I want to make sure I am implementing correctly before we are ready to launch. Top leader board only shows placeholder. https://admin-newyork1.bloxcms.com/burlingtoncountytimes.com/tncms/admin/action/main/preview/site/flexsystem/-/sports/
TotalCMS sharepoint icons
Here is just a fun little feature request to give the TotalCMS appliance a little personality for Mac OS X users. This should have no effect on Windows users either way.
By default mounted server volumes show up with a generic icon.
Besides being boring, leaving it this way makes it harder to distinguish between mounted share points quickly. As such we’ve got custom icons assigned to all servers in the company.
I whipped up some Town News icons (and grabbed the purple one from the web) to use for our install as seen here:
Unfortunately every so often the appliance wipes them out and they revert back to generic icons.
So my “it doesn’t really matter at all, but would be kinda fun feature request” is for y’all to create some custom icons that are included on the appliance by default. That or just set it so the system will leave customer applied icons in place.
They are stored on the root of the share as an invisible INCS file just named: .VolumeIcon.icns
Let me know what y'all think!
Marketplace App
Has TownNews thought about creating an App that is just the Marketplace?
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