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Can't create polls

Maureen Reinert 9 months ago in BLOX CMS updated by Matt Baney 9 months ago 4

Is anyone else having issues creating poll assets? Every time we try to create a new poll we get the message "Preparing asset editor," and that's it.

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I'm wondering if this s something unique to us or is it a larger problem.

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Hi Maureen - This appears to be a bug. Thank for your letting us know!  Please keep an eye out for release notes for a fix. 

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Alternative web statistics?

ShorthornAdam 11 months ago in BLOX CMS updated 11 months ago 2

Has anyone moved away from using Google for site analytics?  We are thinking about migrating to a service like Plausible.io which we pay for vs. using Google for free and giving them info about all of our readers.  Plus, managing it appears to be an order of magnitude simpler.

Has anyone made this change? Any feedback or other services we should look into?

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Can the Utility:Social Links module be updated with an X icon (instead of Twitter)?

ShorthornAdam 11 months ago in BLOX CMS updated 11 months ago 3

That's all!

Thanks

Adam

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Hi Folks - 

This logo will updated in various locations throughout the frontend in our next FLEX template release.

Once ready, this release will be posted here: https://www.bloxdigital.com/releases/

I'm currently anticipating week of 9.18.23 Thanks for your patience!

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Allow URL Anchor or URL Query String to give direct access to promos instead of typing in promo code.

Jeff Sebestyen 1 year ago in BLOX CMS 0

I get that promo codes generally aren't very difficult, but as a tech guy at a newspaper I run into customers who just seemingly find a way to create unnecessary issues.   I think it would be neat to be able to add something in the Subscription URL so that the promo codes are already displayed.  

Example:   www.tdtnews.com/users/admin/service/purchase/?serviceid=478#RESUB would take you to the online-only subscription page, but the #RESUB or ?RESUB would activate the promo code without needing to type it in.  

Thank you, 

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Pinned asset visual indicator if not yet live

Tim Munroe 1 year ago in BLOX CMS 0

New Blox user here.

I think it would be useful if a pinned asset in a block could show it was not yet live ... whether by icon, or a different colour shading. Yes, we can quickly edit the article to check its pub date/time, but it would be nice to see visually which pinned asssets aren't live.

Also, can the block be smart enough to show the maximum number of live articles? If we pin 5 live articles and 5 future articles into a 10-article block, the block shows it's full even though the block on the live site is pulling in 5 articles from query because 5 pinned articles aren't yet live.

Thanks,

Tim

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Autosave feature would be useful

Karah 1 year ago in BLOX CMS 0

It would be great to have an autosave feature like in Google Docs. Being able to write in Blox makes the process faster, but not when you accidentally hit "cancel" instead of "insert," and that's from experience.

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Email alias for author credit

Tom Houston 1 year ago in BLOX CMS 0

We have a team of freelance journalists who all have BLOX accounts and submit their articles through the CMS for review and publish. Their BLOX accounts use their personal email addresses like Gmail and Yahoo. We would prefer that these email addresses are not visible to the public when the article is published with the author's credit. If would be great if there was a way to choose an "email alias" that would be visible on the frontend of the website instead of the personal address. That way we could collect responses to the articles internally.

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Suggestion: Add PUBLISH / DO NOT PUBLISH as an option in TRANSFORMATIONS in Blox Automations

Eric R 2 years ago in BLOX CMS updated 1 year ago 1

It would be great to add PUBLISH status to the transformations that are available in Blox automations.  That way, we could choose to automatically unpublish any content that comes in (via syndication importers) that meets certain criteria.  For instance, we could automatically UNPUBLISH any content that may come from a competitor (by choosing specific words in the byline or body content).  Or, we could UNPUBLISH (and flag for review) any content that would contain certain terms in the TITLE or BODY of the content.

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Notifier Rules seem to ignore Imported Syndication Assets.

Jeff Sebestyen 1 year ago in BLOX CMS 0

When I create a fresh asset and assign it to NEWS, a Notifier Rule will engage and post to social media.  However when I import an AP Article from Syndication and assign it to NEWS, nothing happens, no Notifier rules take effect.  

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Feature Request - Instagram Notifier

Catherine L. 1 year ago in BLOX CMS updated by Stacy Johnson 1 year ago 1

Good Day,

Writing to request the development of an additional feature to the existing Blox Community > Notifier tool - that is, adding an option to let users add Instagram social accounts and thus, push Blox articles to Instagram.

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Have your newsletter open rates plunged?

Jesus Sanchez 2 years ago in BLOX CMS updated by Stacy Johnson 1 year ago 6

Hello. Beginning in the middle of December, the open rates on our newsletters composed on Blox and sent through Constant Contact have plunged from about 50% to the low single digits. This is only happening with the newsletters we create in Blox. The newsletters that we create and send directly from Constant Contact still have those high open rates. I've contacted Blox support and Constant Contact support but so far the problem continues. Has anyone else using Blox and Constant Contact faced this same issue?

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Form Product - Is there a way to either hide price or set price to "0" or "Free"

Matthew 1 year ago in BLOX CMS updated by Glenn 1 year ago 1

Using product - Is there a way to either hide the price or set the price to "0" or "Free"?

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Slug gets overwritten well after a story is syndicated

Lindy Ritz 1 year ago in BLOX CMS 0

We are noticing that after we syndicate a story between our market sites (and we update the slug on our side for our own search queries) - the slug will revert to its original format at some point along the way.

If a syndicated article gets updated from its home site, should the slug also syndicate again if its updated? Or is there a way to disable that?