We've also seen this problem (second child image instead of first) in the past, but doesn't sound like it has happened to us as frequently as you guys.

In my experience no, the content would "move along" with the rename. However most of the renames I've needed to do the system wouldn't let me because there was to much content in them.

I was forced to do a painful batch move from the old to the new section, 25 items at a time...

Traffic is hard to tell, Apple only provides Analytics for channels publishing in ANF, so RSS feeds like we all have don't get stats. I'm sure there is a way to fish this out of Google Analytics, but nothing I just tried quickly worked.

We have not tried Google Newstand yet.

We'd be happy to beta test, but we are on a Zen site for our daily paper. Our two monthly papers are launching on Flex next month.

Christine, will this be just for Flex or will Zen see the update as well?

Jon, just to be clear, I’m very happy with how responsive the TCMS team is to our suggestions. I understand these development changes can’t happen overnight as much as we all wish they could!

• That definitely sounds great.

• I really thought I had laid this out before, but in searching it turns out it was in discussions with Roger Lee and an email to Jim McKee back in August. This is our number one complaint and in hindsight it looks like we didn’t communicate about it well enough. See below.

• We discussed this one in Support Ticket 591135 back in October.

The problem related to Assignment Times is that there is no column for the actual assignment start date and time. As such we can’t even display this value on the main BLOX window but instead must open each assignment and click to the second tab.

We can sort by slug, publication date and due date. However none of these correlate to when the assignments physically get executed.

This means we can’t sort the assignments to see all of today’s assignments grouped together so the photo staff can plan their day, week, etc. Or reporters can look for an opening in the schedule to make a new assignment.

Our workaround has been to require all assignment names to start with the date and 24-hour time window so we can sort them this way. For example these actual assignments for Thursday:

160310 09:30-10:30 League City Food Pantry

160310 14:00-15:00 PRO BOY Doyle

160310 17:00-18:00 New CCISD stadium grand opening

Another issue is that the Date field in the Assignment is not editable after the fact. The time fields can be changed. But if you change the date it simply reverts back.

What really needs to happen to fix assignments in our view:

1. Add Start and End Date/Time columns to the main Assignments window.

2. Change the Start Time and End Time from their current “free text” entry to a drop down selection menu just like the start time on assets. 15 minute increments is plenty.

3. (Less Important) Add a time field to the due date setting. We have different deadlines throughout the day depending on section.

4. Publication Date and Publication are also not currently editable.

After thinking about it another very handy column to add would be City field from the address. This would not only allow someone to see when the assignment is but where to help in planning for drive time.

If you’re looking for even more suggestions a couple additional fields that would be helpful are:

On Media Assignments the “assigned user” becomes the photographer obviously. But it would also be helpful to have a blank for who the reporter on the story is and a yes/no on if they’ll be at the assignments along with the photographer.

I am more than happy to expand on this if needed since it looks like I also dropped the ball in make sure you had this request.

As an example, below is a screenshot from the assignments section of our old system. As you can see, that view makes it very quick and easy to see how many assignments the photo staff is juggling for the day, when an opening for another assignment might be, etc.

Lindy, the assignments function in TCMS is the area most in need of improvement. But Town News has been listening and has a slew of fixes and new features coming later this year I'm told.

Some things you'll notice that don't work right:

• You can't edit the slug.

• You can't sort by assignment date/time.

• Revision history doesn't show the user that made the change.

Honestly if we had seen how limited the Assignments functionality was before we signed the contract, we probably wouldn't have done so.

We're making it work for now, but it is a huge source of frustration in our newsroom.

This problem is driving me crazy as well and I keep forgetting to post about it!

Is this bug still not patched after two years?

Gonna miss this one live but will be looking forward to watching the recording.

Sure, feel free to loop me in to any discussions with Erica. kevin.cox@galvnews.com

I agree Erica. I already have a feature request in for it (as part of Ticket # 591489).

Earlier this month Jon Winters said he liked the idea and would put in the official feature request internally.