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Erik, you just need to submit a ticket to customer service and indicate what you'd like to do.
The way that block for them works is that it's a block like any other, where you simply have assets displayed with the preview image. So it's just using the regular article and does require there be an image.
If all of that work, just submit that ticket with the detail that you want to duplicate what was done for them and you should be good to go.
Joe Hansen
TownNews Senior Solutions Team Lead
Are you thinking of a page like this:
https://www.telemundoatlanta.com/insta_noticias/
TownNews Senior Solutions Team Lead
Jenna,
Yes! We have a built in NITF feed for newsbank and work with them for a lot of our customers. Just submit a Customer Service ticket and we can get that set up for you.
TownNews Senior Solutions Team Lead
Jim,
There is a user permission that controls who can create keywords. You can look at the group that reporters are in under the Users admin -> Settings panel. Open the group. If you look at permissions, you can add a new one under Editorial -> Assets -> Create Keyword Tags. They need to have that access in order to create new ones.
Otherwise they can only use pre-defined keywords (which can help control keyword spam and typos). The keywords list is maintained in Site Settings in the main blox menu. Then look for keywords. Reach out to our CS team if you need further help with this.
Thanks,
Joe Hansen
TownNews Senior Solutions Team Lead
David,
You can use bootstrap 3 visibility classes (https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.3/css/#helper-classes). You can place these classes in the "CSS Classes" field at the bottom of the "appearance" tab in the Design/Blocks application.
Joe
TownNews Senior Solutions Team Lead
If you have anyone on staff that is template certified, you can certainly build your own Datatables functionality into some custom blocks, which would then output a standard blox table asset into a more "optimized" presentation.
That would also allow you to not iframe in the content.
you can do even more with table assets if you get a bit creative. Here are some examples I've put together over time that use some other visualizations (chart.js) and some basic bootstrap styling.
https://www.jhansen.bloxcms.com/chart_test/
TownNews Solutions Support Engineer
Folks, just another quick question since we've been discussing this internally. Does the breaking news block at the top of this page fill the need well enough?
https://www.flex-showcase.bloxcms.com/
It's not the old school marque effect, but it slides nicely from asset to asset.
Joe Hansen
TownNews Solutions Support Engineer
Hi folks, just wanted to chime in. This is one of those types of general requests that would come to me in my new role and I'd build it custom for your site. Then if it was popular enough, it might be promoted into core. I'm also happy to work with anyone who would like to learn how to build something like this for their own site, because that is also something you can do.
--Wade, specifically, if you are comfortable with HTML/CSS/JS, you can get what is called UTL/Template access for your site and have complete access to customization.
However, I'm looking through all the requirements here and it's pretty much just a standard "old" ticker that used to be everywhere, then went away with new "modern" ui.
I'm going to put this on my list of play projects, when I have something to show for feedback I'll post a link for folks to comment on.
Joe Hansen
TownNews Solutions Support Engineer
Nic, we have a new deep analytics platform called Data Insights that provides this data as well as a great deal more. You can get some information about it here https://townnews.com/news_room/townnews-to-launch-data-insights-a-powerful-new-way-for-media-companies-to-analyze-and/article_b0e65482-1db5-11ea-9b8b-3b88e060517c.html or contact your sales representative to get a demo of the product.
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Eric,
This would be a fairly easy feature to add to a block if you wanted a custom version of one. Or it could be done globally via javascript for the full page.
If you wanted to pursue that for your site, just reach out to our CS team.
Thanks,
Joe Hansen
TownNews Senior Solutions Team Lead