Another thing that could potentially work here would be if the long requested "Trim From Web" feature ever got implemented:

https://community.townnews.com/communities/1/topics/80-trim-for-web

This would allow changes (or a complete re-write) to go into the original article but get hidden from the website until that block of text was "untrimmed" by an editor.

You are correct in the current behavior. Once an asset is in a workflow that publishes it online, any later changes immediately go online.

I think the request would be helpful, but it would take a very clear UI to work properly. The current system with linear workflows make it very clear if something is online or not. I can already envision the calls of "why isn't my update online" with a changed system.

So don't get me wrong, it would be helpful, but it also makes me nervous.

You wouldn't want to publish that second asset for the exact reason you mentioned.

You'll either need to use a second, unpublished asset, and then copy/paste the final text into the original (to maintain the URL) and then delete this second asset without ever letting it go online.

Or take it out of TCMS and use Google Docs or something, copy/pasting in the updated / final versions into the primary asset when they are ready.

Our staff directly page is still pretty plain:

https://www.galvnews.com/site/staff_directory.html

We're planning to make all the staff names clickable with photos and bios sometime soon. (Some of them already are.)

We just recently revamped our newsletter signup page:

https://www.galvnews.com/newsletters/

Sounds like the new BLOX Media Library might be exactly what you're looking for in regards to those e-mail newsletter specific images.

https://townnews.com/releases/software_releases/easily-manage-static-files-with-the-new-blox-media-library/article_20299634-e6c9-11e9-954f-23a9f5129e1c.html

Right now we're using FTP access to the App directory on the site to upload static images like those.

I could see that being a useful option.

This definitely sounds like something we'd use. Right now we are just building HTML tables and anything that makes that easier on the newsroom would be welcome.

Bumping again "because having to re-add the slug column in the search window every time I open it is crazy annoying."

Bumping this again. It is October and we're about to have some late-night, tight-deadline baseball games. I'll be cursing the lack of this "middle ground" (show more than 25 items in a search result so I can attach them to a parent all at once) function every game.

Thanks, you've been most helpful.

The biggest batch I've run so far was just shy of 8,000 assets. It actually didn't take all that long to complete, but I've had to run every batch twice so far because it seems like a few dozen get missed in the first go.

Personally I'm also annoyed that doing so means we've now updated the Modification time on all those assets. If all the existing content had just defaulted to "Disabled" when they added the feature it would have worked better for us specifically.