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Documenting Your Work

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Earlier this year, Howard Weaver started a wiki called McClatchyNext in hopes of better sharing information. As a long-time user of wikis (what’s a wiki?), I loved the idea. Unfortunately for me, the site became more of a forum and I lost interest.
That does not mean, however, wikis should be ignored. The [...]

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PubsysEdit 2.1 Released

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Version 2.1: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/static/firefox/pubsysedit_v21.xpi

Features
How to install
Notes
Template modifications

FEATURES
- Direct access to edit a story if you are on a story level URL.
- Access to the following section-specific items (menu appears at the top of the screen):

Highlight Lists
Published Items
Edit Section
Templates
Page Elements
Aliases
Rebuild Index
Site Hierarchy (this is for entire site)

- Access to the following on a per link basis off [...]

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Pubsysedit 2.1 beta released

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In this release:

Icons have been refined. Instead of a large pencil, there is now a color coded box with a letter. E = edit story, T = edit tout (if your site uses these) and G = edit gallery.
Added to the strip at the top: Published Items, Templates, Page Elements, Aliases and Rebuild Index

Still working [...]

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Unhooking Your Highlight Sets

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I learned about this a few months ago: You can keep a highlight floating in a highlight set for later use by changing its asset group assignment to “Select One…”.
The producers here in Charlotte do a lot of this.
There is a problem with that method tho’. It lumps all the unassigned highlights at the top [...]

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