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15 Vote

Lock Composer article from being editable

There is a requirement to have the ability to protect Composer articles from edits / changes. I could see this handled via permissions. An admin role could add a protected flag preventing the normal editor users from making and publishing edits on...

Created 10 Jan 17:22 by Richard Lane

Composer / Composer Settings / Locking / Permissions

2 Needs more information
14 Vote

As an admin, I would like to be able to rename a kickers/labels and reorder labels

When I create a new kicker/label, as an admin, I can define its name. Nevertheless, once it is created, I can no longer rename. If I want to rename it to give it a more sensible name, then I have to create a new one with the right name and delete ...

Created 17 Jan 08:48 by Guillaume Lefebvre

Composer / Metadata

0 Future consideration
10 Vote

Publish unpublished galleries when they are embedded into a published story

With standalone photos, there is this nice feature where if you have an unpublished photo inside of a Composer story, the photo gets published at the same time the story does, so you don't have to manually publish both pieces. We would suggest tha...

Created 10 May 20:00 by Britton Peele

Composer / Photos & Galleries

0 Future consideration
4 Vote

More than two buttons with pre-filled dates for the "Expected publication date"

Journalists often use the buttons with pre-filled dates to set an expected publication date. To make their job easier and offer more choices, we would like to have 4 (or more) buttons with pre-filled dates. And we would like to be able to customiz...

Created 23 May 09:05 by Damien Herpe

Composer / Create/Edit Story / Workflow & Publish

1 Future consideration
12 Vote

Prevent use of multiple H1 and H2 paragraphs in a story for SEO purposes

Current use-case: As a journalist when I'm writing a story, headlines are formatted as H1 and sub-headlines as H2. Our SEO expert recommends that there is only 1 H1 and 1 H2 text field for one article. Wished behavior: As an admin I would like to ...

Created 04 May 17:10 by Guillaume Lefebvre

Composer / Compose Tab Editor

4 Future consideration
13 Vote

We need a way to put a special character in a headline or subheadline and description

special characters from the toolbar are only inserted into the text on the Compose tab - not into the headline or subheadline or description where the user's cursor is located. Characters like em dashes and accented characters are often used in he...

Created 06 Nov 21:20 by Lynda Finley

Composer / Compose Tab Editor

0 Future consideration
16 Vote

Add option to exclude individual stories from Google AMP and/or Facebook Instant Articles

There are many times when iframes and other non-AMP/FBIA friendly embed elements are included in stories. When a story is focused largely on the content of these embedded elements and those elements do not display in those platforms, we aren't giv...

Created 31 Aug 14:42 by Amanda Baker

Composer / Metadata

1 Future consideration
12 Vote

Tags field - search by name instead by slug

The current tags field in composer does search by slug. This is generating issues in our newsroom to find common terms which is impacting the number and accuracy of keywords in these assets.

Created 10 Mar 15:09 by Guest

Composer / Metadata

0 Future consideration
13 Vote

Make "internal memo notes" left in Websked visible in Composer

When you leave a note in the "internal memo notes" field in Websked, it does not display anywhere when you open the story in Composer. Internal memo notes left in Composer do display in Websked, and this is very helpful. An internal memo note atta...

Created 27 Sep 17:52 by Emily Babay

Composer / Metadata / Workflow & Publish

0 Future consideration
13 Vote

Enable Tansa (spellchecker) on headline and all other reader-facing fields

Our internal spellchecker, Tansa, scans the body of the story for spelling and style errors. Omitting the headline field from this check leads to frequent and embarassing errors. Please enable Tansa (and other spellcheckers) to detect ALL reader-f...

Created 16 Aug 01:24 by Jessica Parks

Composer / Compose Tab Editor

2 Planned