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Please make our Flex site search deliver articles by Authors names
We have recently started using Authors on our articles. Authors pulls in a selected user account from our CMS. However when I do a search by the author name on the front end (ex. Kyle Szymanski), none of the articles using the Author's name are delivered as a result on our Flex site.
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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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Webinar: What's new in BLOX Total CMS
At our October 8th webinar, Jon Winters, BLOX Total CMS product architect, will give an exclusive look at the latest improvements, updates and additions to BLOX Total CMS!
Topics will include:
- Associated Press feeds now available through the syndication tool--allowing multiple feeds and packages.
- New page categorizations improve Live e-Edition browsing, budgeting and page automation.
- Time-saving syndication tool updates make importing content directly into Adobe InDesign easy.
- Q&A session to follow the presentation!
Join us Thursday, Oct. 8th at 10:30 AM CST. Register today!
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First Thursday Webinar
Join us Thursday, Oct. 1st at 10:30 AM CST for our First Thursday Webinar. At this webinar, we'll show off the latest BLOX Business Directory improvements, updates and more!
Topics will include:
- User-friendly admin improvements make editing and submitting assets even easier.
- New and improved reports provide additional analytical insights for you and your businesses.
- Faster search results for site users & staffers.
- Bonus: Lee Local's Michelle Skadal-Sosnowski will discuss insider techniques for generating
revenue and building SEO with Business Directory.
Register today!
Topics will include:
- User-friendly admin improvements make editing and submitting assets even easier.
- New and improved reports provide additional analytical insights for you and your businesses.
- Faster search results for site users & staffers.
- Bonus: Lee Local's Michelle Skadal-Sosnowski will discuss insider techniques for generating
revenue and building SEO with Business Directory.
Register today!
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Compare Revisions
I'd love to see an enhancement to the Revisions pane that more easily shows what was changed between edits.
Right now it is fairly cumbersome to figure out what edits were made. If you're looking for edits to the text of a story you need to copy both versions into a third party editor and run a comparison.
In my mind there are a few options that could be added:
1. A simple summary that displays on mouse-over maybe. That reports something like:
10 characters added, 1 section added, 2 sections removed, 1 geolocation added, 1 child asset removed.
2. On the more advanced side, a Wiki style history panel that shows changes side by side for quick reference.
What do y'all think?
Right now it is fairly cumbersome to figure out what edits were made. If you're looking for edits to the text of a story you need to copy both versions into a third party editor and run a comparison.
In my mind there are a few options that could be added:
1. A simple summary that displays on mouse-over maybe. That reports something like:
10 characters added, 1 section added, 2 sections removed, 1 geolocation added, 1 child asset removed.
2. On the more advanced side, a Wiki style history panel that shows changes side by side for quick reference.
What do y'all think?
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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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Editing tables in assets
* Recommendation:
Use TinyMCE editor for assets in TCMS & CMS.
* What problem(s) does this idea solve?
The ability to insert columns or rows or delete columns or rows after a table is created.
* Why do you need this idea implemented?
We have rule sets which convert agate to tables, but sometimes some of the rows have no content. I can't expect a reporter or editor to open the HTML view and reliably know which <tr> & <td> tags to remove. Having the ability to click on a row and then select delete row is much easier and more reliable.
* How often would you use this feature?
Every night.
* How many people in your organization would use this feature?
All of the sports department (6) plus any of the reporters or editors, or clerks (another 19).
Use TinyMCE editor for assets in TCMS & CMS.
* What problem(s) does this idea solve?
The ability to insert columns or rows or delete columns or rows after a table is created.
* Why do you need this idea implemented?
We have rule sets which convert agate to tables, but sometimes some of the rows have no content. I can't expect a reporter or editor to open the HTML view and reliably know which <tr> & <td> tags to remove. Having the ability to click on a row and then select delete row is much easier and more reliable.
* How often would you use this feature?
Every night.
* How many people in your organization would use this feature?
All of the sports department (6) plus any of the reporters or editors, or clerks (another 19).
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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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Where to change the Touch 5 author asset_author_display
I'm trying to get the mobile assets to show the author name instead of the username. The byline is under the headline, so that's good. However the author field under the image in the right-rail shows the username with the avatar. Is there a way to change that to display the person's actual name?
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form designer and submission results
Everything in my earlier rant: http://community.townnews.com/topic/604414-form-designer/ is still applicable. Here i'm more fixated on the submission results.
I have noticed, if I setup a new url and create a simple new form pointed at that url and use that form then from the form designer I can click the submissions button and see data submitted to that form.
However I try to be efficient (lazy.) If I have a new form (Form B) that needs to be an almost exact copy of an old form (Form A) I will clone Form A and rename it Form B. When I do so, the submissions button in the form designer never returns any results.
There was ticket related to this behavior the result of which was don't use the submissions button in the form designer, instead use Community/Form Submissions...
If I use Community/Form Submissions and try to get results for 1 form, I expand title and then have to manually deselect every form. This is annoying and is made even more so because I frequently had to use 3-6 blox forms to replace the functionality of one newsys form. YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO SELECT/DESELECT ALL TITLES WITH A SINGLE CLICK. (When I say had to I mean that was the solution Townnews gave me when converting the old forms)
In an effort to make it easier to process forms related to a current promotion I renamed the form A1Pizza Form and sorted by form name.
Sorting results by form name does not sort results by form name. I get "Account Verification", "Anniversary Announcement", "Portland Leader Calendar Contest", "Messenger-Inquirer Calendar Contest", "Birthday Club Registration", "Messenger-Inquirer Black Friday Deals", "Change of Address" etc, etc for 540 pages of submissions.
I have no idea if my "A1 Pizza Card"'s are going to show up under "A" or "P" for "Pizza Cards" or "T" for "Taste of home" (the name of the form I originally cloned.) or even where those would be.
The current setup is sloppily coded and allows the user (me) to be sloppy and the results are sloppyx2.
If renaming forms is going to cause these kind of issues then it needs to not be allowed.
I have noticed, if I setup a new url and create a simple new form pointed at that url and use that form then from the form designer I can click the submissions button and see data submitted to that form.
However I try to be efficient (lazy.) If I have a new form (Form B) that needs to be an almost exact copy of an old form (Form A) I will clone Form A and rename it Form B. When I do so, the submissions button in the form designer never returns any results.
There was ticket related to this behavior the result of which was don't use the submissions button in the form designer, instead use Community/Form Submissions...
If I use Community/Form Submissions and try to get results for 1 form, I expand title and then have to manually deselect every form. This is annoying and is made even more so because I frequently had to use 3-6 blox forms to replace the functionality of one newsys form. YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO SELECT/DESELECT ALL TITLES WITH A SINGLE CLICK. (When I say had to I mean that was the solution Townnews gave me when converting the old forms)
In an effort to make it easier to process forms related to a current promotion I renamed the form A1Pizza Form and sorted by form name.
Sorting results by form name does not sort results by form name. I get "Account Verification", "Anniversary Announcement", "Portland Leader Calendar Contest", "Messenger-Inquirer Calendar Contest", "Birthday Club Registration", "Messenger-Inquirer Black Friday Deals", "Change of Address" etc, etc for 540 pages of submissions.
I have no idea if my "A1 Pizza Card"'s are going to show up under "A" or "P" for "Pizza Cards" or "T" for "Taste of home" (the name of the form I originally cloned.) or even where those would be.
The current setup is sloppily coded and allows the user (me) to be sloppy and the results are sloppyx2.
If renaming forms is going to cause these kind of issues then it needs to not be allowed.
Answer
Christine Masters
10 years ago
Hi Craig!
We have not yet done a public webinar on Flex. We're hoping to do something later this year! :)
We have not yet done a public webinar on Flex. We're hoping to do something later this year! :)
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