Cherry already posted a reminder about this webinar! Thanks Cherry!

I had a few questions for you community folks...

1. Do you have any specific questions regarding these tools that you'd like me to cover?

Right now I will give an overview of how they work, and then some best practices to create nice looking content.

We will also have Elizabeth Stephens (famous member who frequents this board, in fact) give some sage advice from a journalism / newsroom perspective.

Then I'll show a few examples of what you can do.

2. Speaking of which... if anyone has examples of great uses of the Article Designer tools, or even your favorite parts of what you've seen so far - let me know. I'd love to highlight some customer work in this webinar!

I'm setting up a form that will have multiple items available for purchase. BLOX forms don't come with a subtotal page before submitting. You fill out the form and submit it all on the same page. Typically e-commerce is handled by filling out a form and going to another page that shows the subtotal before submitting. Can that be done in BLOX?

I enjoy the Live E-Editions, but when it comes to magazines, I am often given a single PDF that I then have to extract before uploading it to BLOX.  

Like the title says, I'm looking for examples of good design.

We've brought our entertainment and niche magazine publications off Wordpress and into Blox, and I hate, hate, hate the designs.

Does anyone out there have an example of well designed mag/niche/weekly publication sites or sections that are using Flex?

I'm beating my head up against the wall trying to find something that doesn't look like just another section of the newspaper site.

Thanks!

I am trying to set-up a newsletter that I can send out to all of our subscribers. How do I do this? Do I need to purchase some additional service? Is it even possible to do this through TownNews?

Thank you for your help!

Watch it now! At our June webinar, we showed you how the newly updated Article Designer for BLOX CMS can help you unleash your creativity and boost reader engagement.

New features include:

• Dazzle readers with fresh photo options: parallax, full-width, panorama and more.

• Set the alignment and width of inline story elements for elegant, magazine-like layouts.

• Drag-and-drop related content like pull quotes and fact boxes into the body of your stories.

• Tailor the look of inline story elements with a simple right-click.
  

The new ability to embed a collection with the mosaic presentation is great, except users can't just expand a picture without going to a separate URL. If the photos simply expanded when clicked, just like the images do at the top of stories, readers wouldn't have to load a new URL or leave their spot in a story.

It's a jolt in the experience when the page moves to a new URL. It forces users to hit "Back" to finish reading the story, and is disruptive as-is. Mimicking the features the photos display at the top of the page would fix this.

While troubleshooting an issue I noticed that Delete and Undo Deletion actions are not logged in an asset's Revisions panel.

While we can deduce when this occurred, it would be immensely helpful if the system logged the point that an asset was deleted and then un-deleted and by whom. The text could go in the same place as when user's fill out the box to record a note on their save.

So, of course I have a feature request already re: thew new BLOX release, lol.

We love dragging related stories into body text. But we actually prefer an article asset's 'summary' presentation rather than the 'default' presentation for sibling assets. 

Feature request: Ability to designate which presentation you want to be your default.

Is there any plans on implementing a REST API to return assets as JSON?

It would be really useful for integration with our home-grown systems (Mobile apps, internal APIs, etc) to be able to get a list of all the assets in a section as JSON, then query as asset for all it's data, child assets, etc in a JSON format.

The only way I can see to get data out of the BLOX CMS is via the RSS/ATOM feeds functionality, which is lacking much of the assets data and is no where near as easy to work with as JSON.

Is there a way to bring over assets from syndication with importer as "Do Not Publish"?

I have a customer account that keeps getting disabled (at least once per week). And once I unlock it, he says that he still cannot login. I'm hoping that someone might have a solution

We really need the "Do not publish" flag feature on content imported from Field59.

Hey there!

We recently launched our website in February, and while it's still relatively simple in design, we're always working on integrating new technology in order to stay ahead of our competition; however, two of the integrations I'm still having problems with are Apple News and Google Play Newsstand. 

I have searched the Town News help database and forums for guidance, yet I consistently come up short.

• Apple News - hasn't been updated in over a year, or forwards to the AMP page.
• Google Play Newsstand - simply returns with a "404" error.

While in theory I could publish an RSS feed (which is another problem in itself) to Apple News, I have heard mixed results of success unless you're publishing in ANF — the format Apple is essentially requiring for any sort of success. When it comes to Newsstand, I simply don't know where to begin on the BLOX end for integration.

Could someone please clarify as to the status of these full integrations. Have they actually been released but not updated in the help guide, still in development, or scrapped entirely?

It would be helpful to be able to use Facebook Videos as assets, like you can with YouTube videos. Right now the closest we can do is using an HTML block with its embed code, which is not ideal.