Can anybody fill me in on how the ad blocker detection / messaging works in BLOX. 

There's a toggle under "advertising", but I'm not sure it even works or what the message says.

Can we control the text in the message or the frequency? How does it work?

Hello, 

This year, we bought two southern West Virginia newspapers. I would like to add a Blox calendar to the sites. (For our main site, we use CitySpark, so I am not familiar at all with the Blox calendar.) 

The two new papers have their own Blox websites. Because they are only 30 minutes apart from each other, I would like to create just one calendar for both sites, as they will have many events in common. 

Has anyone using one calendar on multiple sites, or is it not possible? 

Thanks!

We're trying to impliment the "Editor's Picks" feature of Google News. When I submit the rss feed, it is giving the error "Feed Errors: We could not crawl your feed; the URL may be blocked by robots.txt"

The URL we're using is: https://www.westerngazette.ca/search/?f=rss&sd=desc&l=25&t=article&nsa=eedition&fl=featured&altf=google_newsstand

... which I think is the correct way for Google News. Anything glaringly wrong with what I'm doing?

Google News "Editor's Picks" Documentation: https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/1407682

Edit: Googlebot-News is allowed in my robots.txt settings.

Accepting suggestions. / assistance

I am trying to generate a report of the obits published by funeral home within a certain date range. The purpose is to validate billing per obit for the funeral home. In other words, "We published ____ obits for ______ funeral home between ____ and ____, and here's a list of them."

All of our funeral homes are assigned as businesses within our business directory, and the business is attached to each obit asset when published. Example: http://www.richlandsource.com/obituaries/andy-scubby-scodova/article_baca4860-ad27-11e7-ba01-cbc8df811bd7.html

When viewing within Marketplace>Businesses, the individual articles are shown as child assets of the funeral home.

I tried to run a report out of analytics in BLOX.

Businesses>Related assets summary

It returned a "backend fetch failed"

I thought that typing "mailto:" and then entering the e-mail address would do the trick, but it didn't work. Any suggestions on how to do it without making the ad an HTML5 ad?

Thanks,

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I am getting this dialogue box each time I log into BLOX/CMS Editorial/Assets. It includes three documents that I know I have saved. How can I make this go away?

I would like to request a training seminar for two Town News users on building slideshows to see what capabilities we might be missing.

I have a story with no presentation mode.  The single photo is simply a Child Asset to a Flex story.  In both Internet Explorer and Chrome, I can not close the photo after viewing it.  There is no X, and I can't click off of it.  I have to refresh the page.   I can recreate this issue on multiple stories.   I have looked on a sister site and they have an X.  I have also tried clicking where an X would be.  

It would be super helpful if blocks, like assets, would lock when someone already has one open.

We run into situations, especially in breaking news, where 2 people might have our homepage top stories block open. Both are pinning and re-arranging stories -- but they're accidentally saving over each other's work without knowing it.

Right now, BLOX only stores versions of the 10 most recent revisions made, correct? Is there anyway to expand that to 30 or even more? We change assets so often now that we lose the ability to track story versions to serve as teaching points for reporters/editors and for gathering versions for contest entries. Is this something that's technically possible to accomplish?

Just wondering. Can't select any of the drop downs or expand windows anymore since around Tuesday.

I was thinking that it would be beneficial to have a box within the asset creation window where once an asset has been saved, the asset's URL is displayed for easy copy/paste. My coworkers and I are frequently (at least once a day) creating assets which we then email out to our subscribers using Constant Contact. It would be nice to have the URL easily copyable from the asset creation screen, rather than opening a new tab or waiting for the asset appears on the front-end. If the URL were displayed in the asset window, it would save a click!

I'm often using parallax photos to separate sections in a long story. With the new cover art ability to have the headline overlay, I was thinking that it would be really neat if we could put text on top of these parallax or full-bleed photos. We could put subheads or really impressive pull quotes, etc.

Here are a couple examples of how I've used them as a way to separate pieces of a project:

http://lancasteronline.com/features/special-coverage-lancaster-county-natives-residents-share-accounts-of-vietnam/article_e1f19cee-99a5-11e7-9a0b-3bb01dd01dae.html

http://lancasteronline.com/sports/football/highschool/l-l-league-high-school-football-breakdown-section-one-guide/article_92c330d2-8a8d-11e7-a0d3-e306ea552327.html

We've had Outbrain for a while now but I just noticed there's an anchor that takes up most of the screen. I don't have a problem with native ads but I don't want something that intrusive.