Town News Editorial
How can I update a finished page in the e-edition after presstime?
Updating a page after print production is very easy. The e-edition can be updated and changed throughout the day, as needed, with very little effort by anyone with pagination access. This information is also relevant to resending a missing page to the e-edition in the case of an automation err...
TCMS New Build Checks
You Just received an email from the Helpdesk about a new build of TCMS being pushed out to your machine. Below is a list of a few things you will want to update in your Town News Workspace in order to assure a smooth transition to the new Build. Boot up your InDesign and login to the Blox Menu a...
TCMS New User training
Below is the TCMS editorial Basic Training. This video will cover all basic functions of the editorial system. Hours 1-3 cover subjects relative to all users, hour 3-4 is focused more on Editor-level functions. Below is the TCMS Advanced Training. ...
Town News - Obit workflow process
One of the goals of the new system was to send obits throughout the day, as they come in, where possible. In order to accomplish this, we needed to create a special process to trigger and send the obits as they proceed through the workflow process. We noticed that part of the Legacy template men...
Searching AP wire using Town News Syndication
After choosing the correct channel from the syndication section of your product, you will be presented with all AP content available sorted by newest first. To drill down into the data and search for a specific term or word or part of a word you can craft your search terms using this guideline fr...
Upgrading from TCMS to OTF fontsets and new InDesign 2022
The following instructions are for modifying your current workstation to be compatible with the new fonts and templates in use. Please perform these steps in the following order after a clean restart of your machine with no other applications running. Please note: the instructions below also ap...
Update fonts in Extensis Universal Type Client
From time to time as fonts are added or changed in the standard font set, staff will be required to synchronize their workstations with the server again to realign their workstations to the master font set. To Resynchronize your fonts, Open Extensis Universal Type Client on your workstation If th...
Enabling 2 Factor Authentication for BLOX access
Web-facing BLOX logins can now be protected by 2FA login challenge. Any user with direct access to BLOX is now required to enable 2FA on their login to assist with securing the site.For the staff that already have Cisco Duo you can use the mobile app on your device to link BLOX to the duo 2fa or...
Hiding a story from search engines when using content from another property.
From time to time there may be a need to hide specific content from search engines. This would be commonly requested when using stories copyrighted from other publications but shared to us for use. If the story is popular or goes viral, the origin site would want the wider search engine traffi...
Exporting Page Content and Copying to Other Domains (No Duplcate Assets)Adding pages to common
Exporting Page Content and Copying to Other Domains NOTE: The following step should only be completed after the page is complete and all photos are toned. IF THE RECEIVING SITE NEEDS STORIES ON THEIR WEBSITES - THE ORIGINATING SITE MUST MANUALLY ADD THE APPROPRIATE SITE TAGS TO EACH STORY ON TH...
Adding a Byline In Town News.
1. Open up Town news in your web browser and login like you normally would :https://tcms.timesshamrock.com/2. Once logged in, click on your user name in the top right corner and select profile from the drop down.3. If an error pops up click ok on this.4. Navigate to the Content tab. From here you...
Manually adding a page to e-edition only
Editors can create pages in BLOX that are related to the e-edition only, these can be added inline to the end of an existing section or as a separate section letter all together. example below- Someone manually created an L001 page in the 3/6 edition.You can see that it automatically shows up in...