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A way to edit the headline text that appears for related links when you add a related story on the righthand side.

Adding a Related Link (not an Interstitial Link) displays the current headline of the story. We would like a way to override that headline without actually changing the headline on the story itself - just changing the tease headline that is displa...

Created 24 May 21:06 by Lynda Finley

Composer / Embeds / PowerUps / Metadata

1 Future consideration
3 Vote

Make the meta title flexible/movable

Depending on the workflow and responsibilities it may make sense to have the meta title with all other meta data or with all other titles. There should be the flexibility to move it to the position where it makes most sense in the workflow.

Created 13 Dec 13:15 by Guest

Composer / Metadata

1 Future consideration
3 Vote

Ability to create and add new customized tabs to the Ellipsis article screen

Currently all meta data are pretty much under one tab which means that it can be fairly long. Different people may edit meta data for articles (e.g. authors and SEO managers). It would be very practical if it was possible to create and customize n...

Created 13 Dec 10:18 by Guest

Composer / Metadata

0 Future consideration
2 Vote

Implement more training and tips directly in the CMS

This "idea" is gonna be a bit nebulous, but mostly I wanted to make sure you all saw this: https://open.nytimes.com/the-training-is-coming-from-inside-the-cms-55849d795779 There are some really interesting tidbits in there that I think the Arc tea...

Created 20 May 18:24 by Britton Peele

Composer

1 Future consideration
3 Vote

Short url

We have seen that goldfish creates the short urls automatically. We guess, that within Ellipsis it works the same way. Unfortunately we have no documentation on this. As an background information: We consider using information/id of the short URL ...

Created 12 Dec 16:26 by Guest

Composer / URL

0 Future consideration
1 Vote

Add a Configuration toggle to disallow iframe embeds, but still allow other HTML.

Some of our users have begun to insert unapproved iframe code into their articles using the HTML content element in Composer. They are inserting iframes into articles without due diligence and technical oversight. We are looking to either have...

Created 23 Oct 21:53 by Guest

Composer

1 Future consideration
3 Vote

Copy formatting from one story to another

If I have formatting in one story that I want to copy into another (i.e. if I have a master post, or a previously formatted article type that I want to reuse) pasting into a new Ellipsis file strips out all that formatting. Even things as simple a...

Created 30 Nov 14:34 by Jessica Parks

Composer / Compose Tab Editor

2 Future consideration
3 Vote

Function to Email a story from Ellipsis with and without notes and hyperlinks

Our newsroom needs a way to email stories. We currently can email stories with and without notes from Methode. I think that they would like to maintain that functionality. I also think that the enhanced functionality of emailing a story with hyper...

Created 28 Nov 16:35 by Danielle Newman

Composer / Workflow & Publish

0 Future consideration
2 Vote

Ability to edit a Composer article from the frontend URL

I would love to be able to view a frontend URL and see a visible "edit button" or link to click that would take me into the Composer backend of the article. This would eliminate the step to go back into Composer and find the story from the dashboa...

Created 26 Apr 17:51 by Michellina Jones

Composer / Compose Tab Editor / URL

1 Future consideration
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