We sell photo prints through MyCapture, it's pretty popular. However, under the Flex templates, we cannot restrict the images that it offers for sale.

There are times where we don't allow the sale of a photo, such as photos of accidents or photos of gallery art. Also, we are not allowed to sell AP photos for licensing reasons.

Right now, it's either all or nothing. Ideally, we would want a way to flag certain photos or sections with a "not for sale" sort of tag that MyCapture would honor.

I can’t find it so I assume there is no way for me to blacklist certain domains from being used to create user accounts?

If that is correct, I’d like to add it as a feature request please.

It hasn’t turned into a huge hassle for us yet, but so far today we’ve gotten three new accounts created with @dispostable.com email addresses simply to spam the comments.

Having an option to blacklist these potentially problematic domains would be nice.

Let me know what y’all think.

I am curious if anything's in the works for high-resolution ads. Our site looks great on Retina Macs and hi-DPI phones and tablets but the masthead logo and the ads look fuzzy since they are still at 72 ppi. Maybe have the ability to upload something proportionally larger (2-3x) in the same spots (like a 900x750 would be allowed in a 300x250 spot and smashed to fit)?

I can't tell you how many times I've had a back and forth between a subscriber about their password magically changing and they don't have access anymore. If this is via email it could take a day or two to resolve the issue. And most people I talk to assume I can see their password anyway.

So as long as no credit card information can be viewed is it possible to allow certain level admins to view the password? It would make life so much easier and our customers so much happier for us to look it up and say:

"I can't log in because my password is wrong"

"Your password is '123456'"

Child URLs inherit their parent's page customizations. That's great. You set your default page customizations at the top level, it propagates down through the entire URL tree.

But you can change them, you can override the parent's behavior and have a child have different settings.

But after a few customizations, it becomes unclear which URLs have a disinherited set of settings and which are using the defaults. Obviously, clicking through each URL and checking doesn't scale particularly well.

Have any of you folks had issues importing captions along with photos in RSS syndication imports to your sites? If so how have you dealt with it.

I'm importing photos via the media:rss standard but the photos don't have EXIF data, so I need solution for importing caption & other metadata - hopefully one that doesn't involve writing a script to embed metadata to every image.

Can't imagine we're the first newsroom to have this issue...

Thanks!

We track our reporter's page views very carefully to tell what is resonating with readers. However, there is no way to create a report that gives all articles by a specific author with the page views for that article.

And BLOX does not seem to pass author data to Google Analytics as far as I can tell.

BLOX analytics does track page views by ARTICLE. And BLOX analytics does track page views by AUTHOR, but it does not marry the two and give you page vierws by article, by author.

The data is there. We deperately need a report that breaks it out. It is causing us 5 hours a month running and building this report.

When a reporter says "how did I do this month" I need to say, here are all your aticles broken down by page view.

1) What problem(s) does this idea solve?

When you already have the URL of a live story, looking up the asset in CMS to edit it by its title is slow and cumbersome. The UUID is already part of the URL but it currently isn't possible to find assets by UUID to edit them on the CMS side of things.

2) Why do you need this idea implemented? Provide as many problems or use cases as possible.

To streamline asset lookups in CMS.

If the external ID were available in View Source in Flex, that feature could also be handy for asset lookups in Total CMS.

3) How often would you use this feature?

All the time.

4) How many people in your organization would use this feature?

The 10-12 folks who are comfortable with URL manipulation.

I’m looking for some clarification on End Dates for banner ads based on some inconsistencies in this example.

So how is it supposed to work:

1. Does the ad server through the entire date of the End Date? Meaning all the way until 11:59 PM on the End Date.

2. Or does it stop serving as soon as the date is reached? Meaning 12:00 AM as soon as the date flips to the End Date?

In the example screenshot, this ad still shows as Enabled (as opposed to Expired) in the main window. However the Performance area under the Other tab lists the ad as expired.

It appears that #1 is the correct behavior since this ad is still racking up impressions, but I just wanted to confirm. If so it looks like there is a simple bug in the Performance area that is reporting the ad as expired a day early.

Thanks.

We’ve got a customer who would like to have an online advertisement rotate between multiple images randomly. It doesn’t look like there is a way to do this currently in the Marketplace / Banner Ads module. Am I missing something simple?

To be clear, we're not looking for an animated ad that rotates in place. We're looking for logic that will pick between two static image ads and randomly display one or the other at page load.

If not we’d like to make a feature request for this functionality. This way we can keep everything as one ad with the same pool of impressions, ad positions and other options.

We’re getting more and more requests for this type of thing now that we’ve stopped allowing Flash ads on the site.

What do y’all think?

I just wanted to make sure everyone on the community site saw this news:

http://venturebeat.com/2016/08/23/google-search-removes-mobile-friendly-label-will-start-negatively-ranking-mobile-interstitials-in-2017/

It looks like ads that do not overlap content (such as a push-down expandable ad) would not be affected, so could be an alternative. Those of you doing popups may want to consider switching to another ad type.

Let me know if you have any thoughts or ideas on how TownNews.com can help with this. Thanks!

The expandable(pencil) ad has several options for auto-expanding. Page curl doesn't have anything like that. Could we get an auto-expand option for page curl?

Our current circulation software can't do monthly recurring transactions. No clue why not. I don't deal with that software. So they've come to me to see if BLOX can handle recurring transactions.

Is it as simple as creating an online subscription service with no URL access? I've looked at our forms manager where people can purchase print subscriptions initially but I didn't see anything to have it auto-renew.

Does Town News have an option that allows certain subscribers to have advertisements automatically removed from the site? I’d be interested in seeing this technology pursued.

This sort of arraignment could could give more of a “member” type feel for the customer relationship instead of simply that of “subscriber.”

For example from a recent E&P article:

The Salt Lake Tribune in Utah has developed a digital membership model that’s tiered: $4.99 a month provides subscribers with full digital access to the site, plus invitations the special events the publisher now hosts regularly. The other option is to pay $9.99 each month for an ad-free reading experience. More than 700 readers have signed on, the vast majority who have opted for digital reading unencumbered by advertising interruption.

Let me know what y’all think.