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Aug 2, 2002, 8:58 AM
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Ten Features for Article Manager
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There are workarounds to some of these suggestions I know, but the following would be useful additions to the excellent software.
1) Article file names to reflect their categories, ie. news1.html instead of article1.html
2) Full text search engine in Article Editor (but with option just to search titles or any other fields)
3) Checkbox options in category editor to allow people to choose whether this feed is available or not.
4) Subcategories.
5) Ability to publish into different directories, eg. News in a /news/ directory, Sport in a /sport/ directory, etc.
6) E-mail notification to category editors of pending articles. This would be a great feature. E-mail approval might be useful too, but not quite as important as merely knowing there are pending articles that require one's attention.
7) Advanced Web-feed options. At present, you can ask the webfeed to display 5 or whatever numbers of items you've allowed, which is generated according to most recent. How about an option to exclude the most recent item? Why? So that you can include a single item webfeed on a page with its description as a kind of featured item, and then include the next 5 from the same feed as a regular list but excluding the one you featured. Example:
http://www.cnn.com/ has a featured article on the left which could be the same feed as Other Top News on the right if this were powered by Interactive Tools software. :-)
8) Ability to handle different time zones in the Article Editor. Good when your writers are spread around the globe!
9) Include Editor - this is of course very doable as a workaround, by publishing SHTML pages and using SSIs to include items in the right or left columns, for example. It would be nice if there was an include editor that allowed you to manage includes that appeared in the column structure, eg. books or merchandise you're selling, or ads.
10) Log to see who's been adding what over the last day or whatever.
Just some suggestions. 1,3 and 6 seem like the most important and simple functionality that could be added.
Nigel Parry
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Aug 2, 2002, 4:56 PM
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Hi Nigel,
Thanks for the feedback. We are getting a lot of really good feature suggestions through the forum which is great.
I agree that many of your suggestions would be a plus. With your time zone suggestion, would it work to add a spare article field with all of the time zones you want in a drop down list to choose from? This would allow writers to add their specific time zone to their articles.
For example in a spare field add: Time Zone: (PST,MST,CST, EST)
Just for reference, for anyone else reading this thread interested in a method for creating subcategories, here is a link to a thread discussing that: http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/forum.cgi?post=39
Thanks.
Cheers
Damon Edis
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Aug 2, 2002, 5:10 PM
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Thanks Damon.
Time Zones is perhaps a low priority request as I'm in a minority trying to manage international writers on the same site. As it stands, if writers around the world choose their local time, the order of articles in real chronological time is lost.
Creating a custom category and including that field on the site would solve the actual time display issue on the article page, but the sorting in the archive would be wrong.
I'd therefore vote for the top two of my ten wish list being customised article file names and the ability to deselect a category for being available as a webfeed.
Cheers,
Nigel
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