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Feature Request: Form Submission -> Form Views Delete Button

Rick Simpson 3 years ago in BLOX CMS 0

It would be nice to have a Delete button on the Form Viewer in order to mark a form submission for 'deletion'

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Feature Request: Hard delete for file attachments on form submissions

Rick Simpson 3 years ago in BLOX CMS 0

People (and spammers) can upload the oddest things when file attachments are allowed on a form submission.

Since these file attachments can be viewed by anonymous users on the internet it would be nice to have a hard delete method available in the Form Submissions area of bloxCMS.

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Feature Request: Add word wrap ability to HTML Block Editor

Jeff Sebestyen 3 years ago in BLOX CMS 0

It's not often that I need to edit HTML on Blox, but when I do it would be very useful to have the option to word wrap so I can see my code while making quick edits. At the very least a Maximize button would be cool too. Of course if I am doing more vigorous work I would use a 3rd-Party notepad; however I find myself using this HTML block more and more often. Thanks for your consideration. I have placed a prototype image below.

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Separate alt text field for images

Gerri Berendzen 4 years ago in BLOX CMS updated by anonymous 4 years ago 2

Can you add an field for alt text in images? Right now, the system picks up the title as alt text, but we want to use alt text that is more detailed than a title would be. I know people have asked for this in the past. What's the status?

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Ordering Pinned Assets

Hi everyone! 

We've been kicking around an idea for pinned assets and I'd love to get your feedback.  


Presently, and as you may already be aware, pinned assets default the top of a block. Multiple pinned items can be sorted / reordered. 


We're considering a feature that would allow designers access to drag/drop pinned assets to whichever order they want in a block, i.e., pin a single item to the third position as opposed to the top (default). 

We're looking for feedback! 


Have you struggled with this before? 

Would you use this feature? 

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Feature request: "Read More" page break to put content in front/behind paywall

Brad Boner 4 years ago in BLOX Total CMS 0

Would like a feature where we can insert a sort of page break in-line into an article asset in Blox that would put everything before the break in front of the paywall, and everything after it behind the paywall. So for instance, we could insert a "Read More" page break after the first 3-4 paragraphs of a story, so readers would be able to view those 3-4 paragraphs for free, but when they click on "Read More" they would be prompted to log into their existing account (if they weren't already logged in), or sign up for a subscription.

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Drop Down Menu Changes

sfalls 4 years ago updated 4 years ago 2

Can we make additions / changes to our drop down menu, or do we need to involve Town News and have them do it for us for a fee? 

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Feature request: Notifications for editors

Dave Gould 4 years ago in BLOX Total CMS updated 4 years ago 4

Would it be possible to set up an automatic notification system where an editor receives some sort of notification/email when a reporter files a story and/or updates its status? 

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While we don't have an integrated notification system, we do fire webhook events during assets save, and in the new few weeks will be adding support for triggering webhooks when an asset changes workflow process.

We have some customers who use tools like Zapier to consume the webhooks and trigger an email or similar. If you have access to a basic developer, the would also be able to create a system to listen to them.

Joe Hansen

Director of Solutions Support

TownNews

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Feature request: update RSS sorting to allow update time.

Laura 9 years ago in BLOX CMS updated by Joel Kight 4 years ago 1

It would be ideal to be able to sort feeds on last updated time in addition to publish time. We use RSS feeds to serve content to our mobile apps and often times we have a story that is published and updated throughout several days/weeks. For example, a high-profile trial.

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Field59 Watermark generation?

Lindy Ritz 4 years ago updated by Tom Houston 4 years ago 1

Who wouldn't like to see Field59 autogenerate a watermark in the videos we upload? Is that going to be a future possibility?

Answer

Please submit a support ticket at support.townnews.com for any issues like these. The community forum is designed for discussions around features, use cases, and other "commentary"..

Director of Solutions Support

TownNews 

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Feature Request: Choose photo presentation on document placement

Heather K. 4 years ago in BLOX Total CMS 0

It would be helpful in the Child Asset placement window to be able to choose the image presentation mode you need. This would be especially helpful for mugshots where the mugshot presentation mode hasn't been set in Blox (either intentionally or not).


It would save a lot of time to have the option to check a box/choose a presentation change for each photo in the Child Asset window while placing, instead of having to back out of placing the asset and then go open each mugshot individually and change its presentation. 

We also do have some editors who don't want their mugs to display with the mug presentation online. So those images don't need that setting online, but they do need that mugshot treatment on InDesign pages.

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Tracking subscriptions in BLOX from a specific event

theag 4 years ago in BLOX CMS 0

I am opening an event for Street Fairs/Community Event tables were we talk about the paper and offer a deal for customers to subscribe. I need to track this separately from other subscriptions. Is the promo code field the best bet? Can I set up the promo code without a discount? Has anyone done this successfully in the recent pass? We are also just setting up access IQ +. Thanks, Thea Giardina, www.newjerseyhills.com

ps: we have 13 papers that cover 4 counties so tracking is important