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16 Vote

Replace word 'Staff' in byline field in Planning tab

When an author is added to the byline field in the planning tab of Composer, the word 'Staff' is appended to the front of the byline entry, if that author has an Author Service entry. This is the case even when that author has an author type = con...

Created 11 Mar 08:28am by Paddy Logue

Composer / Authors/Creators

1 Future consideration
1 Vote

Story preview shouldn't require PageBuilder access

In my humble opinion, it's pretty silly that a user needs "Access PageBuilder" permissions in Arc in order to preview the story that they're writing in Composer. I get that it generates a PageBuilder URL and that it needs to be set up that way on ...

Created 8 Aug 08:40pm by Britton Peele

Composer

0 Needs review
16 Vote

Fill description field with subhead

We would like the description field in the planning tab of Composer to be autofilled from the subhead field and visa versa and the ability to disable this with a radio button (so that description can be extended if needed). With current set up bot...

Created 31 Jan 02:04pm by Paddy Logue

Composer / Create/Edit Story / Metadata

1 Future consideration
19 Vote

Improvements to barely-there geolocation (latitude & longitude)

We want to start doing a lot more stuff with regard to locations in our stories. Specifically, we want to be able to geotag specific stories so we could theoretically do things like placing them on a map. We're doing a lot of exciting things with ...

Created 16 Dec 10:53pm by Britton Peele

Composer / Metadata

1 Future consideration
34 Vote

Ability to add custom icons for custom embeds

I thought this Idea already existed, so apologies if it's a duplicate, but I couldn't find it. We love having the ability to add custom embeds (Power-Ups) to Composer and have added several embeds for our internal tools. A shortcoming, though, is ...

Created 11 May 08:40pm by Britton Peele

Composer / Embeds / PowerUps

0 Future consideration
8 Vote

See unpublished videos in a Composer article preview

It's not possible to preview unpublished videos in Composer articles. This is not ideal because we can't embed videos to preview them in the digital presentation. Unpublished videos (and still images, which is in another request) should be viewabl...

Created 13 Apr 08:29pm by T.J. Furman

Composer / Photos & Galleries / Workflow & Publish

2 Future consideration
8 Vote

Move the button for Takeover in Composer to a different position so it doesn't align with Save & exit

When a story is locked the Takeover button is located in the same position as the Save & exit button when the story is not locked leading to accidental takeovers when a user with the save and exit muscle memory is moving quickly. We would sugg...

Created 31 Mar 02:33pm by Brandon Omohundro

Composer / Locking

1 Future consideration
8 Vote

Text editor in subheadline and description fields

The team would like to be able to bold, italicise or underline text in both the 'subheadline' and 'description' fields of Arc Composer. Any description formatting should pull through to where articles might be displayed in Collections. Example Use...

Created 23 Mar 10:56am by Natalie Mugavero

Composer / Create/Edit Story

1 Future consideration
63 Vote

Enable anchor tags in Ellipsis

As a reporter/editor/producer, I want to be able to add anchor tags in my story so that readers can jump from a top directory straight into the section of a story, guide, or longform that they are most interested in. Currently, we can do this onl...

Created 28 Mar 06:09pm by Jessica Parks

Composer / Compose Tab Editor / URL

2 Future consideration
13 Vote

Support for rel=sponsored and nofollow attributes in Composer links

Hi, I would like to suggest the possibility of adding these attributes for the links in texts and images managed in Composer. This could be really helpful for the use case of affiliate sections, very common in news websites nowadays. Thanks,

Created 2 Dec 09:40am by Silvia Andres

Composer / Create/Edit Story / Embeds / PowerUps / URL

1 Future consideration