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Macros in TCMS using Chrome (or Firefox)
When creating stories and adding photos (that is, working with "Article" and "Image") there are an enormous number of repetitive clicks. For example, in an "Image" asset you click a button to add an image which shows a popup to click to get to the "Browse" dialog, which pops up across the screen from the first button ...)
Being able to use some basic macros, as in Excel, to get from A to B would save a great deal of time and go easier on everyone's wrists and arms.
Is anyone using a macro program on Macintosh successfully? I've tried OSX Automator but it is not giving me results.
Being able to use some basic macros, as in Excel, to get from A to B would save a great deal of time and go easier on everyone's wrists and arms.
Is anyone using a macro program on Macintosh successfully? I've tried OSX Automator but it is not giving me results.
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Under review
When Creating an Employee under 'User'; I would like to see Edit HTML Source on the TAGLINE field.
When Creating an Employee under 'User'; I would like to see Edit HTML Source on the TAGLINE field. This way I can be positive that at the end of each story, the authors email and hyperlink and font size is just right.
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In brief: e-Editions notifications, custom classifieds categories and new webinars
Click here for a rundown of recent TownNews.com features and news you may have missed.
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Webinar: Introduction to BLOX Tributes
This week we're rolling out BLOX Tributes, a new add-on for BLOX CMS that helps you commemorate your community's most important milestone events. Create sections dedicated to obituaries, births, anniversaries, weddings, graduations, cards of thanks and more. All ways to build traffic and offer lucrative advertising opportunities.
And unlike some third-party obit sites, BLOX Tributes bulletins are hosted on your site, and the ad inventory is yours to sell!
To learn more about BLOX Tributes, join us for a webinar on February 20th at 10:30 AM CST. Click here to register! Ready to order? Contact your sales representative for more information.
And unlike some third-party obit sites, BLOX Tributes bulletins are hosted on your site, and the ad inventory is yours to sell!
To learn more about BLOX Tributes, join us for a webinar on February 20th at 10:30 AM CST. Click here to register! Ready to order? Contact your sales representative for more information.
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Answered
Search option
Ellen Moseley 11 years ago
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updated by Aaron Gillette (Marketing Director, TownNews) 11 years ago •
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Is there a way to search for assets with a start date of "today," such that you can save a search called "Today's stories" or something similar without having to change the date each day? If it's there, I'm just not seeing it. Thanks!
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Searching answer
vehicles featured search question
Is there a setting that makes the Classified: vehicles featured search display the dealerships alphabetically instead of a random order?
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Planned
Ad Targeting
Does anyone know how to target an ad based on vehicle make in the vehicle vertical?
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Inventory Forecasting
april bunch 11 years ago
in BLOX CMS
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updated by Patrick O'Lone (Director of Software Development) 11 years ago •
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Can you please add a feature showing how many impressions are still available for our teams to sell, via the forecasting window in our Banner Ad System, since this is not currently available? Thanks!
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Connected Services/Broadcast
Jason Schaefer 11 years ago
in BLOX CMS
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updated by Patrick O'Lone (Director of Software Development) 11 years ago •
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Can Google+ be added to this? It would be sweet to broadcast some of our content to our google+ page as well as our facebook/twitter.
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New! Free and easy syndication add-on for BLOX CMS
Aaron Gillette (Marketing Director, TownNews) 11 years ago
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updated by Jason Schaefer 11 years ago •
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Our new syndication tool lets you import articles, images, videos and more from third-party RSS feeds and other BLOX CMS sites, making it fast and easy to enrich your publication with custom channels of high-quality content. Learn more »
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Author for YouTube Asset
Is there anyway you can add a way to add an author option to the youtube asset? Right now I've noticed our people have been using the batch edit screen to add this information to the asset. (Used for finding a video by a specific videographer)
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Completed
New Check box sectioning
Jason Schaefer 11 years ago
in BLOX CMS
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updated by Patrick O'Lone (Director of Software Development) 11 years ago •
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It would be nice to add a clear button for the new section system. I am often hearing complaints from our copy desk and editors about incorrect sections being included because they are so used to the old method. Right now they are having to find the active check boxes and uncheck them when they change sections on upload.
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Answer
Patrick O'Lone (Director of Software Development)
11 years ago
Support for clearing sections has now been added and is deployed.
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Answered
Help button gone from Template Editor?
Michael Becker 11 years ago
in BLOX CMS
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updated by Aaron Gillette (Marketing Director, TownNews) 11 years ago •
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Where did the help/template reference button go in the template editor? It's missing...
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Answered
Find Assets idea
Jason Schaefer 11 years ago
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updated by Aaron Gillette (Marketing Director, TownNews) 11 years ago •
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I would love to see the 'Saved Searches' code added to the Find Assets popup.
Just one example: I have specific shared searches saved for our weekly user submitted photo contest. (easy way for our graphics department to grab the user submitted photo for the printed paper)
We change our homepage on Friday to showcase the winning photograph. We will typically pin the winning photos so that we can have the old photo unpin at a specific time (By the way.... very thankful the unpin at a specific time feature)
Unfortunately I have to manually search for those photos (contributed, specific folder, asset type, date range) to pull up that week's photos. It would be so much easier to just pull up my saved search and get to the photos and pin the winner.
Just a thought... Jason
Just one example: I have specific shared searches saved for our weekly user submitted photo contest. (easy way for our graphics department to grab the user submitted photo for the printed paper)
We change our homepage on Friday to showcase the winning photograph. We will typically pin the winning photos so that we can have the old photo unpin at a specific time (By the way.... very thankful the unpin at a specific time feature)
Unfortunately I have to manually search for those photos (contributed, specific folder, asset type, date range) to pull up that week's photos. It would be so much easier to just pull up my saved search and get to the photos and pin the winner.
Just a thought... Jason
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Answered
How do I disable email notification?
Home Reporter 11 years ago
in BLOX CMS
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updated by Aaron Gillette (Marketing Director, TownNews) 11 years ago •
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Our site currently sends email notifications to the admin email address whenever a calendar item is added. The admin doesn't want to receive these anymore, so I am trying to change the email address for notifications without changing the overall administrator contact info. Is this possible? How do I go about this?
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