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Meta Description Field - Auto Correct Standard Keyboard Strokes

Description Background • Problem: Unlike the other fields in Arc, Composer does not “auto-correct” the standard " and ' to curly quotation marks” “ and an apostrophe ‘ . You can actually see even Outlook and word doing this as you type them. It’s ...

Created 10 Nov 14:11 by Guest

Composer / Compose Tab Editor

0 Future consideration
2 Vote

We would like to easily copy/paste text with editing intact from one story to another story

Editors use the notes mode function to edit stories and write notes to reporters. You can copy a paragraph or more of text including notes mode text and paste it elsewhere in the same story and the text retains all of the formatting. However, if y...

Created 31 Aug 19:57 by Lynda Finley

Composer / Compose Tab Editor

3 Needs more information
4 Vote

Ability to change story slug

Currently slug doesn't seem to be editable and instead it is just slugified headline. It would be nice if it was possible to override the slug sometimes for optimisation reasons. By default I think it still makes sense to slugify the headline but ...

Created 12 May 08:48 by Guest

Composer / ANS / Metadata

0 Future consideration
4 Vote

StoryBuilder should strip pasted HTML within subheadlines

If text is copied with styling ( e.g. from a website with styled content ) and then pasted within subheadline field then that styling HTML is persisted and appears in the API response as just pure HTML changing the style of subheadlines. Subheadli...

Created 12 May 08:27 by Guest

Composer / Compose Tab Editor

1 Future consideration
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
2 Vote

Add the ability to mark a featured image as published

There really is no indication on the Featured media page as to whether the image in published or unpublished. In addition we would like to mark the image as published right there without having to go back to Photo Center. The issue arises when the...

Created 21 Jul 18:49 by Lynda Finley

Composer / Featured Media

0 Future consideration
2 Vote

We need more user-friendly error message that shows when clicking 'send to print'

When I click the 'send to print' button, error message is shown below the Arc screen that says "Error sending story to print. Unable to send to print" which we think is too vague and does not pinpoint what went wrong. In otherwords, the error mess...

Created 25 Jun 10:09 by Doma Bang

Composer / Workflow & Publish

0 Future consideration
2 Vote

Improve tasks display in Composer: hide due date after a task is completed and order tasks according to their status

As a journalist or editor, I am able to visualise all the tasks related to a story. The display could be enhanced as follows: Remove the due date of a task after it is completed. As a matter of fact, it is useless at that stage and it creates con...

Created 03 Jan 10:01 by Guillaume Lefebvre

Composer / Workflow & Publish

0 Future consideration
2 Vote

Ability to add redirection URL before publish

As editors, we publish many redirect stories in Composer -ie, for branded content- and we can't add the redirect URL until the story is published, so we can't schedule a publication with the redirect URL. Will be great to have the ability to add t...

Created 03 Dec 18:02 by Sergio Rodríguez

Composer / URL

2 Future consideration
2 Vote

Allow various color palates for text in stories

It would be great to be able to highlight certain text in different colors. For instance, when previewing a rivalry game, using the colors of the teams to highlight wins and losses is a really neat experience for users. See example from a story th...

Created 28 Nov 15:42 by Guest

Composer / Compose Tab Editor

2 Future consideration