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Include an option in Composer to “Save As Template” from an existing story

Composer allows the ability to create new story templates and then use those templates when creating a new story with predetermined text content and metadata. What about adding a “Save As Template” button when viewing stories so that a user can ta...

Created 12 Mar 15:35 by Guest

Composer / Templates

4 Future consideration
3 Vote

We should have a way to assign templates to users

Instead of having to have each user star their own templates it would be useful to have an admin be able to assign a template to a user. Conversely an admin should also be able to delete a starred template from a user assignment (such as in the ca...

Created 30 Nov 16:31 by Lynda Finley

Composer / Templates

0 Future consideration
5 Vote

Allow users to have a personal, exclusive template (i,e., new story "defaults")

We have many writers for whom every new story in Composer is going to have many of the same attributes. It would be convenient if those writers could begin a new story with all of the repetitive stuff pre-filled in. EDITED TO ADD: Not a universal ...

Created 15 Sep 16:47 by Britton Peele

Composer / Templates

4 Future consideration
5 Vote

Access to story template should filter on distributor or web site permissions

We have a multi-site setup with 5 very different publications using composer. Each of the publications need their own set of story templates in composer, but since there is no permission in the templates, they will see templates from all publicati...

Created 31 Aug 07:33 by Arnstein Andreassen

Composer / Templates

0 Future consideration
2 Vote

Safety Checks and Custom User Error Messages

Because the way newsroom use Composer fields in different ways and perhaps to render different content than what's obviously labeled, additionally because all newsroom have different workflow nuances, etc. We NEED the ability to: make fields requi...

Created 07 Dec 15:29 by Guest

Composer / Templates

1 Future consideration
3 Vote

Should author metadata stored in Composer templates be limited to references?

We have literally hundreds of Composer templates. When the template includes a reference to an author in the author service, it appears that a number of metadata details from the author service are copied into the template (and then into any artic...

Created 04 Jun 19:30 by Alasdair McKie

Composer / Metadata / Templates

0 Future consideration
4 Vote

Preview draft story by subtype

When previewing a story in Ellipsis, the preview appears to show the basic article template. In our experience, it doesn't seem to take into consideration any assigned subtypes, which is how differentiate whether a story gets our basic or longform...

Created 19 Dec 01:42 by Amanda Baker

Composer / Templates

1 Future consideration
2 Vote

Expose and document Composer template API

We have many (many!) Composer templates. Sometimes we need to make changes to a lot of them. The process of doing this one-by-one in the Settings UI is very time consuming, and could easily be automated. But so far as we know the template update A...

Created 14 Jan 03:36 by Alasdair McKie

Composer / Templates

2 Needs more information
2 Vote

Deactivated or deleted subtype

We use subtypes in Composer to match a type of article with a specific layout. All our articles are migrated with the original subtype from our old publishing platform. Now in ARC, we are not going to use anymore the subtype=3 to create new articl...

Created 23 Jul 14:04 by Mauro Terrizzi

Composer / Metadata / Templates

2 Needs more information
1 Vote

Section field shouldn't be required to create a template in Sandbox

Currently in Sandbox environment, since the last update 2 weeks ago, when we create a Template it doesn't let you save unless you choose a section. When we want to create a generic or blank template, we really don't want to choose a specific secti...

Created 17 Dec 00:33 by Guest

Composer / Circulations / Templates

0 Already exists