Feature request for a text alert that sends out a link to our headline mailing list (Flex site). Readers, particularly the next generation of readers favor mobile text notifications over email. Our stats are showing that a small proportion of newsletter subscribers see our emailed newsletter in their inbox, even though they subscribed to it. It would help us reach more readers, more quickly. We would use this very day for general news, sometimes multiple times a day for breaking news & weather alerts etc. Different types of alerts would be possible & could effect most staff in several departments - but particularly our content generators in the newsroom.

Hoping others will like this idea so it is considered for a future release.

We fairly regularly have customers ask to have their ads start at specific times of the day. This most often occurs when they have a short, timed sale. I would therefore like to put in a feature request that the start time & stop time could be set along with the date in banner ads. I am the only one that schedules ads but it would benefit the entire sales dept. by making ads more flexible for customers. Eventually when the ad dept is trained 7 others would use it too.

So we'd like for old calendar events to be deleted after a certain period of time elapses following the final date(or only date if it's a one time event). But to delete an event has to recur. I don't understand why one time events can't be set to delete after a certain period.

It seems to me what would make the most sense would be to say "Delete X days/months/years after the final event date." If the event recurs it would never be deleted until such a time that it no longer recurs. If it doesn't recur it would still be deleted X days/months/years after the last date regardless of whether it's a one time event or has multiple dates.

We are looking to have the ability to view the statistics of individual editorial assets from within the asset window.

1) Having the ability to view the individual statistics for stories will help us sell more in-story ads, be able to tell agencies how many views our stories receive, help writers know what stories are successful and what ones aren’t, and help promote our business by being able to share with those the story was about how many people viewed and read their article.

2) Having this idea implemented would allow us to view not only the statistics on the top 20-100 stories but also be able to see stories beyond the 100 that are viewable. This would help us in the scenarios mentioned above as well as being able to see our success rate on individual stories that are not in the top 100. We have had several people express interest in knowing this information for stories that were not in the top 100 and had to tell them we did not know.

3) We would use this information at least once a month for web reporting and weekly when the writers are looking to see how well their stories are doing.

4) There are about 10 people in our organization that would use this feature.

In the syndication area, after Add to site it would be nice if the asset went into the default workflow.

We're looking into using collection assets because we found the timeline feature which is AWESOME! What would be great is if those collections could be automatically populated with assets based on keywords. For instance if we had the keyword "Donald Duck" as we write stories with that keyword it would be automatically placed into the Donald Duck collection. That way we wouldn't have to remember to manually add assets to collections.

Basically it would be block query rules for a collection asset.

During a batch edit of section tags, the tags end up in alphabetical order rather than the order in which they are selected. The order of section tags is important, of course.

To make the batch editing of section tags as efficient as possible, it would be great if one or both of the following options were available:

1. Section tags were "added" in the order they are selected. (I believe this function happens else were in the admin.)

2. The user could drag and drop the order of the tags within the batch window to reorder the tags.

Thanks.

Is there a way to share calendar entries between multiple Blox sites? Is anyone doing this, and how are you going about it? (syndication? jobs?)

I just noticed there's nowhere to add an image(s) to a related content item(like in a "More information" or "If you go" box). There are many instances when our break-out boxes have images. I may be missing something, and if so, please tell me what I'm doing wrong.

I tried adding an <img> tag with the image but BLOX seemed to have stripped that out.

We're having an issue and I'm 99.9% sure it has something to do with Chicago servers. I've pulled up TN sites that use NY servers and they work fine. I can't view any of these:

http://thebrunswicknews.com (our site & the backend)

http://help.bloxcms.com/

http://docs.townnews.com/kbpublisher/

http://www.onidawatchman.com/

http://www.lodinews.com/

http://www.gulfcoastnewstoday.com/

http://www.idahopress.com/

I'm not sure because I can't see which servers they're on but I'd be willing to bet they're all Chicago. This issue isn't limited to us. We've got someone traveling in North Carolina and he can't access our site either.

So I guess this question is: Is anyone else on a Chicago server unable to access any other Chicago servers?

Several of my sites have asked about any future developments in the real estate vertical to include a leads form in their Real Estate vertical. I know that the "Send Email" link displays on featured agents, but would there be a way to make that email link be a lead form like the "Send Email" link on the business directory page itself so that lead could be tracked in the analytics?

We're thinking about completely rebranding our marketplace section. So that would be a huge amount of custom CSS and it would make our site.css heavy and very long. Is there a way to target a different stylesheet for the marketplace section?

I’d like to make a feature request to allow the TotalCMS Asset Manager to place a Collection asset onto an InDesign page.

Collections are the ideal asset type for photo-only “wildart” packages that make it into print and go online.

These typically have either no text or just a short copy block that accompanies a layout dominated by the photographs. As such using an Article Asset to get them online just looks silly and isn’t the most effective presentation tool.

Right now we’re having to create both an article for the print side (making sure it is set to not publish online) and then a Collection for the web. Duplicating our efforts of attaching photos, etc.

This is something we’d utilize multiple times per week and I think would benefit other TotalCMS users as well.

Please let me know what y’all think.

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