1) A secure mode for assets would only allow specific people (through a list of usernames or group access settings) to edit an asset and publish.

2) Sometimes there are sensitive articles that, while they are being developed, should only be accessed by a select few (eg: only the author and a managing editor).

3) We would use it any time there are stories or large features that require confidentiality until publication. Especially articles that have a lot of fact-based research that needs to be vetted, or allegations that need to be confirmed.

4) All users would benefit from this feature. Our head editors and those with more independent and investigative privileges would benefit most from it, while allowing our managing editors access to their articles.

Let me know what you think of this idea, folks:

Imagine you're in the asset editor with multiple assets selected. You then hit a button in the toolbar and all those assets are made siblings to each other in one click. (Each one has all the others added as siblings.)

I think it would make establishing related articles easier in bulk.

When one of our readers visits the news, sports, or calendar pages as an example, they can only see a maximum of the 50 most recent assets. To see anything in those categories older than 50 assets, they would have to use the search feature of the website where at the end of the search results, there is a "next page/previous page" button.

We're proposing creation of a block which would navigate to the next set of assets within a category without needed to navigate to the search function. For instance, on a sports page, if you have it set up just to display the 15 most recent articles, then the next page would reveal the next 15 most recent articles. Another example is on our calendar page where again the reader can only see a maximum of 50 upcoming events and to see anything beyond that, you must do an event search for a specific range of dates. It would be great if readers could easily glimpse at events in coming months without using the search feature.

• I would use this feature multiple times per week
• Our readers would use this feature on a daily basis
• others in my organization would use this feature multiple times per week

Is there any way to see how many people are using the "Follow this search" function? and what the open rate is on the emails that get sent for it? BTW: I love this function, just wondering if it is getting used.

In FLEX, pre roll video ads are only supported in the ROS position. This has created a problem for us with some sports packages we've sold for us in previous years. We have other non-sports videos on our sites, but we create a special advertisement with sponsors that runs specifically before state track highlights. So now, the pre-roll videos we've created for state track highlights are running on every video regardless of section/subject.

Would it be possible to create one of these options?:

• be able to assign pre-roll ads to specific pages (not just ROS)
• match ads with specific assets by using keywords or slugs

We use to be able to assign them to specific sections in ZEN

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I'm not sure if it was how our site was set up or what caused it but our page titles don't have any branding. For instance most news sites' page titles would look something like this...

"City crime rate dropped in 2016, but gangs persist | The News"

I tried to just add " | The News" to the "Page Title" field in URL page properties but that adds the text to the "Utility: Page heading" block. I don't want that. I just want it in the page title.

Hopefully this makes sense. Does anyone know how to add text to a page title without it changing text within the page itself?

I seem to remember reading that there was a function available that would allow advertisers to view their own banner ad statistics. Possibly through the Business/Marketplace integration?

I've searched but am coming up blank.

Imagine this: You set up a block template for one of your URLs, but instead of just being able to query by start time, section, keyword tag, and such, you can query by asset custom properties.

It would be a text field option, where you'd type in the custom property and then have an optional second field for a value (with options for equals, less than, greater than, etc.). If you left the second field black, it would just test to see whether the custom property exists.

My specific use case (right now) would be our sports assets where we use custom properties to make a custom scoreboard appear with an asset. The block query would look to see whether any of the associated custom properties exist, and then I could make a block containing just assets that have scoreboard.

I'm sure you can all come up with many more uses.

What do you think?

We recently had an article leaked. It was an early draft and still required many edits and fact-checking before we were to publish.

Through revisions, we can see who has edited/saved an article, but is there a way to see which user account has entered into an asset but did no edits and not saved (i.e: just viewed)?

If not, would it be possible to add in a "log" field near revisions that just show who has entered into an asset and what time, regardless of any changes made?

Would anyone be willing to share what ad size(s) you are using for for your email newsletters?

Under the Zen templates we used the two-column layout with "Wide Skyscrapper" (160x600) ads and they worked well. However replicating that under Flex with responsive sizing just looks awful.

As seen here: http://www.galvnews.com/newsletters/headlines/

We'd like to switch back to what was the Town News Flex default one-column layout for our newsletters, but now we're not sure on the optimal size to use for the ads.

Any links, thoughts or details appreciated.

Thanks,

Kevin

I need to be able to refresh ads on our site. We use DFP and in Flex I am unable to add the var slot1. how do I add: var slot1 in flex?
Sample code:

 <script>

   googletag.cmd.push(function() {

    // Define the ad slot
    var slot1 = googletag.defineSlot("/6355419/Travel", [728, 90], "leaderboard").
     setTargeting("test", "refresh").
     addService(googletag.pubads());

   // Start ad fetching
   googletag.enableServices();
   googletag.display("leaderboard");

   // Set timer to refresh slot every 30 seconds
   setInterval(function(){googletag.pubads().refresh([slot1]);}, 30000);
   });

 </script> 

I'll start by saying this is a request I shouldn't even need to make, but I have users who simply cannot understand the impact of changing the Start Time of an article after it has already been published online (e.g. 404 errors for readers following links from social media).

• I'd like an option to have the Start Date/Time of an asset frozen in TotalCMS, once the article has a Site Tag and that time has passed (meaning it has published online).

This would function exactly like the Start Date does in Banner Ads:

This would prevent the accidental removal of an article from the website by users who don't understand exactly how it works. However the Do Not Publish checkbox would still be available for emergency situations when something needs to be taken down, but would require a much more conscious effort to engage.

What do y'all think? I can't be the only one who has face this problem.

We've just noticed a problem that appears to have been happening for a while now.

In our business column we bold names of people and businesses. Everything looks good in print (TotalCMS) but online the spacing around these bolded words is missing.

Is anyone else seeing this issue on their sites?

Hey community people!

The marketing team may be posting this somewhere else as well (and I didn't ask them ahead of time before posting this, so hopefully it's OK - if not, uh, sorry guys!), but I just want to make sure you folks on the community board saw this because this stuff is really getting great results.

Firstly, have you seen the integrated Native Advertising stuff? It's really easy to set up, and we've already seen it getting surprisingly good results. I would highly recommend just trying it out on one or two sections, and see how you do. We have been surprised so far, and it is a nice way to include another revenue-generating spot without adding a banner ad.

Some of the "native ads" are from decent publishers as well. Check out my test site right now, for example (which prompted me to write this post, in fact):

It is just a new property group called Native Advertising that is available in several of our blocks. More info: https://help.bloxcms.com/knowledge-base/applications/editorial/assets/faq/article_6d3353b8-08f3-11e7-b1fe-278a427431ce.html

Also, wanted to make sure you saw the new blog post which talks our our iQ programmatic ad program. A fourth of our iQ sites are making more money in the program than their TownNews.com monthly bill! So instead of paying us each month, we send THEM a check! How cool is that?

https://www.townnews365.com/news_room/townnews-com-iq-delivers-big-programmatic-gains-for-news-media/article_c6ffe7e6-13cd-11e7-b31e-1b18dcb42dd9.html

Anyway, let me know if you have any questions!