I love your Calendar section as well Michael!

Thanks Nick! I looked through the CC docs today and found the same thing. Thanks for the well-documented answer!

We have been looking at BS4. It is quite a major change and I worry about sites with custom blocks/designs. But, I really don't want to lose support for the latest Bootstrap this early in Flex's life. Have you looked at it, Mike? The CSS classes are changing so drastically! http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/migration/

Hi Andrew!

This morning we released our latest major version of the BLOX Core CMS, which has a new "HTML" block type. This way, you can use it to create HTML snippets, without creating HTML assets. We do not recommend that you create HTML assets for non-content items.

Here is some more information about this, including recommended uses and details on data normalization:

http://www.townnews365.com/releases/software_releases/blox-software-release---nov-th-am-cst/article_fe225326-83c8-11e5-bc2d-a73fea840384.html#utm_source=townnews365.com&utm_campaign=%2Freleases%2F&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline

Let me know how this works for you use cases! =)

Hi Edith!

Mike gives some great advice regarding how to deal with the "relationship" between online and print. I'll give you a few set up ideas.

Firstly, you are currently on our new Flex templates which have really fine-tuned support for how to accept calendar submissions from the website. You're also using Upsell Manager, so that users can self-service "buy" a featured listing for a price determined by the paper. You've got a bunch of self-service upsells already, which is great! All of those people with featured listings paid for them. So you have a lot of options:

1. You can turn off online calendar submissions completely (I wouldn't recommend this, but it is possible).

2. You can turn off paid calendar upsells, or change the pricing. (Instead of $10, you can have $100 upsells, or whatever you want). You can offer multiple calendar upsell packages - such as a $10 which gives you a listing, but nothing on the front page. Then a $75 listing that gets you the featured flag on the front page. These prices are determined by the site, so they can be whatever you want.

Also remember that calendar events can be exported for print. We have a lot of sites that encourage businesses to post their events online (and encourage self-service upsells online!), and then export those listings out for print using our calendar export tools. This provides self-service upsell opportunities, and improves efficiency of getting events for print and online.

Hey Nick,

We have discussed this (adding a new ad type for anchor ads), but it is not on our near-term road map. We have some big changes for Ad Manager coming soon that will be worked on first!

On our Flex templates we do have this as a built-in "block" ad type - we call it an anchor ad.

For Zen, we don't have anything built-in, but if you put in a Customer Support ticket, we have some example code that can help you with this. You'd have to do one size for desktop, and another for Touch 5.

And thanks Mike for your help! =)