It would be nice to have an option to push a story for an Amber Alert in the area to the site.

How many of you would welcome a more robust "article submission form" to use as a reader blogging platform? I'm talking about the same functionality of the story asset, with hyper links, ability to submit multiple photos and place them in the text where needed, etc. 

I have seen a few requests for hyperlinks and other stuff in the "article submission form," but I think full functionality would be welcome.

Our only other option would be to open part of our admin to readers, and we really don't want to do that as that will bring in a whole other set of problems.

YouTube is working with publishers — there's a whole YouTube for Publishers program. It's also our video player, so we upload and monetize all videos through YouTube. That works great on videos that we create — we upload them and publicly publish them. We also use AP video. We can add (and monetize) the video to our site through YouTube, but not to our YouTube channel. The easy way to do that is to add those as unlisted videos. 

Syndication pulls in YouTube feeds; very handy. But only public videos. The API that Town News uses searches YouTube, similar to a user searching YouTube, so unlisted videos are invisible. To add unlisted videos to Blox, I have to manually create a YouTube asset. 

Is it possible to change that a bit so that unlisted videos on my YouTube channel also can be imported? 

Can someone help me find the accepted values for calendar query rules with dates? For example, I can see that for the rule "Creation Date/Time" I can Choose an exact date, say "Feb 1, 2018" but I also see that we are using "Today" as a value in some places. Where is the documentation for all the accepted values for these rules? Can I write "Tomorrow" or "Today +7"? 

this Calendar Query Rules doesn't seem to have it.

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We currently use Mailchimp to send and manage our email news blasts. Our subscribers are limited to updating their preferences within mailchimp settings. We would like to add a feature to our User Dashboard (“townnewssite”.com/users/admin/) so that users can manage their Mailchimp preferences, like what is available through Constant Contact.

We need this implemented because we prefer the use of Mailchimp vs Constant Contact for its usability and design capabilities. It has become a burden for our readers to manage two different accounts and our newsroom would like to move towards more streamlined personalization features. We anticipate this improved personalization will make our users turned newsletter subscriber into paying members, which will increase our happiness with the capabilities of TownNews CMS :)

Let's say we have some CSS and JS in the global skin and UTL components. It's on the CDN as the other JS/CSS files as Core TN stuff. This works great!

However, can there be a way to access a minified version of those files? For example, if we have a file in global in resources/scripts/somefile.js (which would translate to something like https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/example.com/content/tncms/live/global/resources/scripts/somefile.js on the CDN) can we have a minified version like https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/example.com/content/tncms/live/global/resources/scripts/somefile.min.js ?

Just a humble idea by me. Thanks!

Our organization uses VDIs (virtual desktops) hosted in Microsoft Azure as our means of doing business.  The site looks great in the VDI without any issues whatsoever. When I click the login link, I receive the login screen.  However, when I submit my credentials the server returns with an HTTP 429 error.  "Too Many Requests"

Is there anyway to avoid this message? Perhaps the system thinks that I (along with all other Azure traffic) is the same individual attacking the CMS? Is there a way to relax this restriction so we can avoid purchasing physical machines?

Thanks

I have an AP Channel set-up.  Are these stories supposed to flow into my site automatically?  Do I need a JOB setup?   My intention is to have a small widget that flows in AP stories dealing with NBA.  

We are trying to sell our masthead banner ad space, but advertisers frequently ask to have it scroll with the page.

We would like to be able to use the Skyline Utility Region while the Navigation option is set to Fixed on Scroll, and have the option to allow any custom blocks in that region to also scroll with the navigation header (above it).

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Does anyone have any experience integrating Hearken or Groundsource with BLOX?

You may have heard, but in case you haven't, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism is offering a 650k grant to help newsrooms deepen engagement with audiences using either of these tools.We are considering going for the grant, but I am having a hell of a time getting anyone from TN / Blox to tell me if the tools will work inside our system. 

Any experience or confirmation from the mother ship?

How does one configure a block to display on mobile only? I want to add a block that will only show on a mobile device. 

I used to be able to run animated GIFs in stories, and on section fronts/homepages IIRC.  But trying to do one Friday and another today and they're not displaying.

Did something change, or am I finally going crazy?

I am attempting to follow the instructions from How Do I Set Up an Associated Press Syndication Channel? but when I create a channel, I do not have an AP option.  Only CNN, Blox, RSS, and YouTube.