Ideas for Arc XP

Hi Stuart, the reason we would like to see the other headlines is that we use the Pitch workflow for our push alert integration. In short we place the text of the push in the 'mobile' headline type, pitch the story to a Publication associated with our push alerts and once booked this triggers the push to be sent. This allows us to keep the breaking news push workflow within Arc for Editorial users. So seeing the mobile headline from the viewpoint of the pitch is helpful to check at the point just before triggering the send. At present to get around the absence of the 'mobile' headline/push text, editorial users need to paste the push text in notes so it can be seen, but this is not a fool proof method. If you need anything further, just let me know. thanks, Paddy

Hi Paddy,

Circling back on this: can you help me understand why the alternate headlines are helpful? I want to understand the full scope of the issue to see if there are other improvements that we should work on alongside this one.

- Stuart

Hi Paddy,

Sorry for the delay. Here is the ANS Schema. One of your engineers can walk you through how the fields map to the meta data for a piece of content.

https://github.com/washingtonpost/ans-schema

Cheers,
Stuart

Hi Stuart, thanks for coming back to me on this. Is there somewhere where I can see a complete list of ANS items to examine wrt to your question about the other info that might be useful in Websked ? thanks again, Paddy

Hi Paddy,

I've discussed this with the team. Currently, we don't have those alternate headlines in WebSked -- we only grab a subset of the ANS. Nevertheless, that is something that we are changing in the future, though it may be some time until we've made the changes needed to access the alternate headlines. I'm glad you brought this to my attention so I can be aware of your need for them.

With that in mind please let me know if there is additional information from ANS that you would like to have access to in WebSked. You can email me or submit additional Ideas.

Also, I understand this is important for your organization. I'm going to leave this Idea open so other clients can chime in.

Thanks!
Stuart

ok thank you

Thanks for the clarification, Paddy. Let me bring this back to the team and see how we might address this.

- Stuart

Hi Stuart. The ideal solution is some sort of control that changes headline view on all pitches in that publication. So that would be, for example a dropdown selector where we have marked number 1 in the screen shot here. Other locations for it could be in 2 or 3 marked in the screen shot.

Based on the ideal scenario outlined above, each user would be able to select which headline is exposed.

Your last bullet point idea may work too subject to testing a solution. thanks Stuart. Paddy

Thanks for posting this, Paddy.

Can you give me a little more detail on what you imagine would be the ideal solution? I have a few questions:

• Is this an ON/OFF switch where WebSked looks at all headlines and prioritizes which ones to show first? Or would you want to set the order?

• Would this setting be applied to all WebSked users in your company? Or are you looking for each individual user have their own priority?

• Would it work to simply have a link next to the headline that shows the list of alternate headlines?

Thanks,

Stuart