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Change google's description of my site
I want to change this description of my website, our school changed its name. What do I have to do to change this

You'll need to change the metadata of the pages being indexed. The help documentation provides some instruction on this:
If you've change the name of the paper and need the site's titles changed - you'll also need to update your settings in the menu entry Settings > Site. Note that it may take a bit for search engines to pick up the changes though there are ways to convince Google to check back a bit sooner in the webmaster tools for the site in Google:

Block Syndication Import in TotalCMS
Is there a way to disable the importing of assets from a Syndication channel?
We created one in TotalCMS that allows us to easily search our website since it contains years of articles that aren’t in TCMS. However when users import these articles is creates the potential for them to show up on the website twice.
It would be great if there was an option for a “read-only” syndication channel that disables the Add to Site function.

Feature request: 1+ people working in same asset
It'd be awesome if BLOX allowed multiple people to be working the same asset simultaneously AS LONG AS they were working in separate fields.
For example, one person correcting a headline mistake, another fleshing out body copy and another attaching a photo.
If there was field access, instead of asset access, that would go a long way in helping with big breaking news.

Feature request: Instant link on BLOX from phone
Our guys love posting to BLOX from their phones. But they aren't able to quickly get a link to tweet or FB when posting on the phone like they do on laptop.
We would use this feature A LOT. Everyone in our newsroom would use.
Example: New Orleans Saints sign Drew Brees to new contract. Reporter finds out while on practice field. Needs to file and disseminate news from phone. Can't do latter.

Repercussions of changing wireframes
How many times have you wanted to change the wireframe you're using? I've successfully changed non-home pages with no issues. But I know as soon as I switch wireframes on the home page it's going to completely screw up all of my other pages. Has anyone done this? If so how did it affect the inside pages?
This may be for another post but I think something that would really help would be the ability to create regions. How hard would that be for a non-UTL user?

Feature request(s): BLOX admin enhancements
We'd love for y'all to consider a more intuitive BLOX interface (selfishly speaking b/c I"m sure our workflow is different from others) …
-- the ability to search for a story, drop it into a block and re-order the items in the block w/o having to open multiple tabs/individual blocks.
-- Also, could related stories we drag into an asset show up in a related box underneath the centerpiece when the asset is put in that block? Right now we have to manually define centerpiece related stories.
-- Would also be helpful to 'link' block to one another so a story can seamlessly flow from one block to another on a page.
Right now when we change centerpiece story, for example, we have to change the CP, then move that CP'd story -- which is still being widely-read -- into another prominent block on the page.
We would use these features VERY often.

Multiple pictures per article
Is there a way to add more than one picture per article without them showing up in a gallery like view. For example, is there a way to have one image a the top of the story and another one midway through?

Bulk photo upload in the user dashboard
Allow users to upload multiple photos at once via the BLOX user dashboard.

Feature request: Generating RSS feed from block
We'd love to explore the ability of creating an RSS feed based on a block or specific blocks' content, rather than keywords/section tags/etc.
This would give us more control over RSS feeds we want to use for our apps. Right now it's very difficult to curate our feeds with the best content we have on our apps.
For example, to stipulate what we want the lead story to be on our apps we have to give the story a keyword and make sure the story has the most recent start date/time compared to all other assets previously using that keyword. Sometimes we want to lead with a story that wasn't published in last hour or so.

Getting a video error in Chrome
I've uploaded a video several times to BLOX but I can't seem to get it to play on Chrome. I get this error: "The media playback was aborted due to a corruption problem or because the media used features your browser did not support."
It's an mp4 exported with Adobe Premiere using h264. I can't even play it in TCMS.
Has anyone else every seen this error?

HTML5 Flowplayer
Is it possible to change to the HTML 5 version of Flowplayer? If so, will it support pre-roll ads we create through BLOX?

The new Flex templates use an HTML5 video player. I'm not sure if we will be able to migrate Zen, due to site customizations and other issues, but it is possible.

Live e-Editions App
Just curious about this app. I didn't realize it existed until reading about it in another post here.
It doesn't look like there are many publications available in it and it keeps crashing on me when trying to switch to View Page mode.

Webinar recording: Optimizing your BLOX CMS site for speed
At our July customer webinar, Christine Masters, director of product management, highlighted insider tips and techniques to help make your BLOX CMS site faster than ever.
Highlights include:
- Understanding the need for speed and how TownNews.com's Flex Templates can help reduce load times.
- Evaluating ads, third-party add-ons and other factors that can slow down your site.
- Creating page size & load time budgets to help you stay on track when designing pages and adding new content.
- Future upgrades to rendering, CSS and much more!
For more information, download the slideshow or watch the recorded webinar today!

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When a website shortcut is made to an iPhone start screen, the images don't show when clicked
Also, the newspaper logo at the top is not clickabkle and the nav doesn't work. This is reproduceable. I don't think this is a TownNews issue, but has anyone has a similiar issue?
It only happens when you go to the website from an icon made on the start screen of an iPhone. I have not tried Android yet.
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