Composer allows the ability to create new story templates and then use those templates when creating a new story with predetermined text content and metadata.
What about adding a “Save As Template” button when viewing stories so that a user can take an existing story, with its text and metadata, and save that in its current form to use on future stories as a template.
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It would also solve the problem brought up here, where the template tool is not as robust as Composer itself: https://ideas.arcpublishing.com/ideas/SB-I-88
It would be much more convenient to create templates from the normal Composer tool - then you don't even need a separate tool to create templates.
Hi Lawrence! The problem this would solve is if a user had a story with metadata fields and text that they realized they will need again in the future, they wouldn't have to re-create it from zero as a template, but could just save it as-is to the template list.
The example that comes to mind is a story that was written as a one-off, but as the news events develop, the journalists realize that this will not be a single story but a series of stories that they will need a template for.
Hi Rob! Thanks for the idea. I'm hoping to understand: what problem is the solution you proposed above solving for?