Ideas for Arc XP

Oftentimes, editors will want to feature a video or a gallery as the "Lead Art" of a story.

Lead art, in this case, is not the same thing as what is referred to as a featured image within Ellipsis. A featured image has the following restrictions:

1. It can only be an image.
2. It is primarily used for sharing on Facebook, Twitter, etc, and for that it works quite well.
3. When a story is linked on the homepage, the Front End places the Featured Image as the story's main image.
4. In the ANS, this comes out to be promo_items.basic

However, sometimes editors will have a gallery or a video they would like to accompany the art instead of a static image.

In this idea, I propose:

• Adding an item to promo_items called promo_items.lead_art. This would be in addition to promo_items.basic, which would now be exclusively used as the share image.
• A promo_item.lead_art could be any of the following:
  • Video
  • Gallery
  • Image
  • Raw HTML embed (somewhat dangerous, but I do know the need for this is out there)

Users would need to be able to use Ellipsis to either select a video from Goldfish, an image or gallery from Anglerfish, or insert custom HTML (such as a Youtube Video embed) that would populate the ANS's promo_items.lead_art spot.

Please talk to Matt Nelson, who can point to some projects in which we have implemented this solution. The need revolves around the Ellipsis UI for it.