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4 Vote

make dialog boxes with submit/save buttons responsive to the screen size in use

When you are on the planning tab in composer *on a laptop* and try to edit, for example, the website/section field, you get the popup box for Modify Sites and Sections. The save button is off the screen and there is no way to access it without cli...

Created 24 Sep 20:22 by Lynda Finley

Composer / Workflow & Publish

0 Future consideration
4 Vote

"Clone" button should clone all ANS traits

All ANS traits, but most crucially for us, the "expiry" setting. We use the clone button on wire stories to avoid incoming updates from over-writing our editors' work (i.e., the problem described in this ticket: https://ideas.arcpublishing.com/ide...

Created 13 Sep 15:59 by Ken Carriere

Composer / ANS / Workflow & Publish

0 Future consideration
1 Vote

Reduce whitespace around inline custom embeds (power-ups)

Currently when using custom embeds inline within composer, the vertical size of the power-up seems to be calculated as twice the actual size that is needed. Meaning, the larger the inline custom embed, the more whitespace that is shown before the ...

Created 20 Jul 07:47 by Guest

Composer / Embeds / PowerUps

1 Future consideration
2 Vote

per story parameter for images to flag images for different use/displays on site.

Right now there are only left right center float to flag an image with a different layout option on a story - we have worked around this by editing and then removing keywords from caption but thats not ideal. An open field with a value(or keywords...

Created 06 Apr 17:15 by Guest

Composer / Photos & Galleries

0 Future consideration
5 Vote

Ability to flag a story for noindex / nofollow

Some third party stories we republish have noindex, nofollow restrictions on them. Current functionality only allows stories to be marked as such on ingestion into API. But what about those stories put in manually by the newsroom? Ellipsis does no...

Created 25 May 14:53 by Amanda Baker

Composer / Metadata

2 Planned
2 Vote

Composer/Themes: Resize embedded images in situ

We would like to be able to resize embedded images whilst they are in the article body - Wordpress has a feature like this where you're able to hover over the edge of the image to "push & pull" the image size within the text.

Created 23 Mar 11:21 by Natalie Mugavero

Composer / Photos & Galleries

1 Future consideration
4 Vote

Record "send to print" history

As an editor, because I do not work in our print CMS any more, it is important for me to know, inside the ARC environment, if a story has been sent to our print CMS. I want the meta data of the story to record any timestamp of my "send to print" a...

Created 02 Aug 03:16 by Guest

Composer / ANS / Revision History

2 Future consideration
4 Vote

Make Word Count field in Ellipsis put some type of indicator on text

If the word count field put some type of indicator (line or change color) on text it will help journalists know when they have reached the amount of words needed for that story. Workflow from digital to print will be smoother because the word coun...

Created 30 Jul 21:55 by Guest

Composer / Compose Tab Editor

0 Planned
3 Vote

Open Related Items tab by default in Composer

As an Editor, I want the "Related Items" tab to open by default when I open a story in Composer so that I can quickly view the multimedia content that has already been added

Created 12 Nov 14:04 by Julia Glover

Composer

0 Will not implement
4 Vote

Button that takes you to published story from Ellipsis editor

Immediately after hitting publish on a story, many authors want to look at it on the live site to make sure it's displaying properly and was published correctly (this is a practice we encourage). It would be perfect if there was a button -- perhap...

Created 15 Jul 22:48 by Britton Peele

Composer

3 Already exists