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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/
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Under review
Marketplace App
Has TownNews thought about creating an App that is just the Marketplace?
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Answered
Poll assets with related links
Is there a way to link an article assets within a poll asset? For instance in a poll about privatizing ambulance service, can I link the story we wrote about privatizing ambulance service? I tried adding a related child article asset and a related link but it doesn't display anywhere.
Answer
Christine Masters
10 years ago
Hi Nick!
This is a feature in our new templates. When are you moving to Flex? :)
Here is an example: http://www.flex-showcase.bloxcms.com/news/have-you-participated-in-the-als-ice-bucket-challenge/poll_c4cb2da3-b020-541d-b51a-de7f2470d66f.html
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in page links
Does anyone know if it's possible to include an 'in-page' or 'id' link in a BLOX asset. I mean a link where like this: <a href="#IDHERE"> as opposed to linking another page. When I try and do it I get a 403 forbidden error. Thanks!
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Under review
Support for USER ID tracking in Goggle analytics
Google analytics supports the use of a non-personally indentifiable indentifier to be sent from sites that support logins. When this is done it does a better job of tracking unique users and allows sessions to be stitched across browsers and platforms (user 8675309 pulled up this article on his phone and then 3 minutes later he continued his session on a pc).
More information is here:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/...
and here
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/312366...
There's more to it than just changing the Google javascript. ToS would need to change and the ability to Opt out would need to be added to user's self service pages.
More information is here:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/...
and here
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/312366...
There's more to it than just changing the Google javascript. ToS would need to change and the ability to Opt out would need to be added to user's self service pages.
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Redirects for URLs and their children
Hopefully this will be an easy answer...Is there a way to have a redirect for a url and any of its children in BLOX? For example I want thebrunswicknews.com/oldurl as well as thebrunswicknews.com/oldurl/story1, thebrunswicknews.com/oldurl/story2, thebrunswicknews.com/oldurl/this-is-just-another-page, etc to be redirected to my home page without having to make redirects for each one.
It would be even better if I don't have to create a new URL in the BLOX URL map for the redirects too, so they don't clutter the URL map.
The reason I'm asking is because Google Webmaster Tools keeps finding URLs from my old site and our BLOX site is almost a year old.
It would be even better if I don't have to create a new URL in the BLOX URL map for the redirects too, so they don't clutter the URL map.
The reason I'm asking is because Google Webmaster Tools keeps finding URLs from my old site and our BLOX site is almost a year old.
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Asset Index: Main Index blocks not showing flags
I'm trying to get flags to show up with some of our Asset Index: Main Index blocks but I'm not having any luck. The documentation says:
show_flags
show_details
show_flags
Setting this property to true will display flags under the headlines. Setting this property to false will hide all flags under the headlines.
andshow_details
When this property is set to "true", details such as the section, flags, posted date, publish date, updated date, and the comment count will display.
So I've set both to true and still no flags. If I switch it to another block style like Headline List I get the flags but the look isn't what I want. Am I missing something or is it an error in the code?
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Smartphone app and broadcasting
I don't find a smartphone app to use for uploading content. In using the mobile version through my phone's Safari web browser, while I can upload a story or photo/video asset and select under what section categories I want it to publish, I don't see where at the same time I can broadcast it to our social media settings, so I don't get that boost, or audience, until I go back to desktop, open the asset and select broadcast. Or am I missing something? Thanks in advance.
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Under review
Cropping image in Touch 5 Mobile: Mobile Main
Am I missing where the option is to crop the image that goes with this block? This is what we get. I realize it's responsive, but if someone has that size mobile device it's going to look bad.
Also, the "truncate lead" and "additional paragraphs" only seem to display on the phone version of the site. The tablet version only displays the image and the headline. As it is now it looks like, in the example above, the "Pet maintenance" story belongs to the "Pet ER" story above it, but that isn't the case. They are two separate stories.
Also, the "truncate lead" and "additional paragraphs" only seem to display on the phone version of the site. The tablet version only displays the image and the headline. As it is now it looks like, in the example above, the "Pet maintenance" story belongs to the "Pet ER" story above it, but that isn't the case. They are two separate stories.
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Under review
AAM Tracking Reports
Our Circulation Director is excited about the new AAM reporting feature. I'm wondering if it would be possible to have a feature that would automatically email the reports instead of placing them on the FTP server?
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Completed
Page curl ad position - convert to HTML5, or use jquery.
I understand this is an antiquated ad position, but can this be converted to HTML5 or use jquery? It would also probably be lighter on the page loads.
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Editing e-edition segments?
We have to do a lot of cleanup after the automatic segmenting and it seems to me there should be a way to edit a segment, that is change the asset it points to, or change it from a cutout to a segment that links to an asset, without removing it and starting over. At least there should be a way to tell from looking at the segments what kind they ares and where they are linking to. Or am I missing something? Just a minor annoyance.
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Email import articles directly into workflow
I would really like to see a way to import articles via email to the blox editor and then automatically have those added into the start of a workflow to be edited. This would streamline our production of content greatly! Currently we have to have someone here to monitor the feed and manually place assets into workflow to be copy-edited. This is not as efficient as it could be.
Is this currently possible? If not, this needs to be a new feature.
A note: We already have email importing set up and running. We also have workflow set up and running.
Is this currently possible? If not, this needs to be a new feature.
A note: We already have email importing set up and running. We also have workflow set up and running.
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CMS Print Tab and/or depth inch count
Is it possible to have the Print tab that is in tcms available in cms? Or at least the depth count?
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Under review
HTML Editor
Are there any plans to upgrade the HTML editing in Blox?
Some suggestions and things I would love to see:
Some suggestions and things I would love to see:
- syntax highlighting
- emmet integration
- tab/whitespace formatting and sanitization
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