Bumping this back up since it got buried yesterday.

Trust me, I understand that problem all to well.

I feel your pain here. I'm often left searching for technical solutions to what shoud simply be user problems.

Could you do this now by using a keyword? You could add a hidden keyword like #scoreboard to the articles you want to go into the block.

Thanks Christine.

I agree, it feels like they are missing the basic "Like" reaction.

Ben, any objection to this being an optional feature that you can simply leave unused at your site but I can have at mine?

Thanks Christine. Glad it wasn't something isolated to us.

This would be one of those things I don't personally see us using (we simply don't publish that much sensitive stuff), but think it definitely worthy of a feature request. It could have much broader appeal at larger publications with more staff as Town News continues to grow.

Robert, I think this would be pretty hard to do.

One easy workaround we use (for example during breaking news situations) to fully view an article while someone else is working in it or to prevent locking it in case someone else needs to edit it; is to simply use the Print button in the BLOX interface.

This allows anyone to view the full text of the article, print it, copy/paste it, etc. I'm not sure there is a way to prevent it without breaking a lot of functionality.

That said, a restricted mode could be a cool feature. Basically allowing an asset it be locked to a user group or particular users until it reaches a certain workflow stage.