In our old CMS, we had a URL suffix (?showHelp=y) that you could type at the end of any article, photo gallery, page, etc. and it would open that file directly in our CMS so we could quickly fix typos, add photos or related links, fix a page source, etc. It was still protected behind our network passwords and behind our permission levels, so not just anyone could get in.
It would save us SO much time if we had a similar mechanism to go directly from a live article into an Ellipsis file, from a photo gallery into the gallery in Anglerfish, from a video into Goldfish, or from a section front or other page into PageBuilder.
Jessica Parks
Hi Jessica, Alasdair, and Britton,
We have released an update to our Arc XP (Chrome) Browser Extension that includes this capability: https://redirector.arcpublishing.com/alc/arc-products/pagebuilder/fusion/user-documentation/arc-xp-browser-extension-user-guide/
This is an interesting idea that would improve cross-product integration. We will consider this for future plans.
@Alasdair, could I get a copy of that JS code? The Dallas Morning News newsroom used the same bookmark solution for our old CMS, so I think there would be interest in using it for Arc as well.
Our workaround for this is to surface the UUID of the content as a meta property in the HTML markup of the page (you may already be doing this) and then giving newsroom staff a Javascript bookmarklet that looks at the URL structure to determine if it's a story vs gallery vs video and then uses the UUID to open a new tab at the edit screen for that piece of content in Ellipsis/Anglerfish/Goldfish. Happy to share the JS code if that appeals.