Ideas for Arc XP

Allow a lightbox to be associated with a composer file.

As a user I have created a lightbox in anticipation of using it for a composer story (or there is a lightbox of evergreen photos). I would like to associate the lightbox with the story. Currently we must create a composer story and then create a task and then create the lightbox with the Task ID. Although you can create the story with the photo assignment Task ID and then put that Task ID in the lightbox, there is no way to assign more than one Task ID to a lightbox.

  • Lynda Finley
  • Jan 4 2024
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  • Lynda Finley commented
    30 Jan 17:00

    We don't want the lightbox as a piece of content - we just want to be able to associate the lightbox (that was created before the story was created) with the story so that we can add photos to the story without having to search for the lightbox to find the photos we want. Thinking more about it I suppose the issue is really that you can only associate one story with a lightbox. In the case of an evergreen lightbox you might need to associate it with more than one story.

    A use-case would be:
    we are doing multiple stories about MLK in January for the holiday and have a lightbox with all the photos we could use of Rev. King that could be used in the, say, 5 stories we have planned. How can we associate that lightbox with the 5 stories to make it easier for users to add them to the story?

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    Caytlyn Trickey commented
    30 Jan 16:31

    Hi Lynda, I think Composer and the Photo Center team might need to hear a bit more about what you're expecting to do here. Are you expecting to link to a story from the Lightboxes experience in Photo Center? Or add a lightbox directly to a story as a piece of content.