Save the last visited spot

• Functionalities
  • When re-accessing the CMS (e.g. closing the window, log out and log in again) user would be taken to the spot that he/she left off
  • The screen would be scrolled to the last visited card

Role-based access of functionalities and fields

• Details on functionality
  • Only Hot Seat users can see the options to display the homepage banner and send mobile notification
  • Only Photo Editors can license the photos
  • Cards and fields are exposed based on roles: see details on spreadsheet

Techincal exploration

• Explore the SSO Login
• Explore VPN

Favorites (MVP)

• Objective
  • Access the frequently visited contents quickly
  • Display the favorited items with Content Type and Slug
• Functionalities
  • Add as many as needed from individual assets as well as the library
  • Remove the items
  • Rearrange the items
• Integrating with Toolbelt
  • There are Favorite data existing in Toolbelt
• Non-MVP
  • Folders / config settings per card

My Tasks (Non-MVP)

• Objective
  • See all the tasks that are assigned to the specific user
• Functionalities
  • Display the following per a task:
    • Priority
    • Photo of the assignor
    • Task name & Content Title
    • Memo, if available
    • Time ago of the assignment
  • Arrange the tasks
  • Check off the completed task, which disappears from the card
  • Remove the task
  • Task is linked to the corresponding content page in the CMS
  • Tasks gets added in chronological order – the oldest task is on the top
  • High priority task appearing at the very top
• Integrating with Toolbelt

My Latest Activities (MVP – Order of priority: 1 of 3)

• Objective
  • See all the activities that I have performed
• Functionalities
  • Save, Publish, and Assign activities performed by the user gets displayed in reverse-chronological order – the newest activity is on the top
  • Display the following per activity:
    • Thumbnail of the content (usage: Promo) – if not available, display the placeholder image of its Content Type
    • Activity type & Content Type & Content Title
    • Time ago of the activity
  • Activity is linked to the corresponding content page in the CMS
  • Load more option to see the past activities
• Integrating with Toolbelt

Latest Published Content (MVP – Order of priority: 2 of 3)

• Objective
  • Show the list of the all the latest published contents in the CMS
• Functionalities
  • Display all the content that are published in all of CMS in reverse-chronological order
  • Display the following per item:
    • Content Type & Content Title
    • Time ago of the publishes
  • Item is linked to the corresponding content page in the CMS
• Integrating with Toolbelt

Status Tracker (MVP – Order of priority: 3 of 3)

• Objective
  • Track the status and activities happening to a specific set of contents
• Functionalities
  • Display the status of items that the user flagged to track the status in reverse-chronological order of user’s adding
  • Display the following per item:
    • Thumbnail of the content (usage: Promo) – if not available, display the placeholder image of its Content Type
    • Content Type & Content Title
    • Save, Publish, and Assign activities that happened in the content & User
    • Time ago of the activities
  • Remove an item
  • Item is linked to the corresponding content page in the CMS
  • Items to be added to the queue when the user has edited the content
  • Load more activities, ~2 months (explore how many to be saved)
  • Flag articles to be tracked (explore)
• Integrating with Toolbelt

Article Statistics (MVP)

• Objective
  • Display the relevant statistics of the articles that users have touched
• Functionalities
  • An item can be opened or closed
  • Closed item provides the following information:
    • Title of the story
    • Total Number of visits, shares, and likes
  • Opened item provides the following information:
    • Number of visits
    • Number of uniques
    • Number of reads
    • Top 5 Referrals and numbers
    • Devices: Desktop, Mobile, etc.
  • Statistics come from 3rd party services such as Omniture, Chartbeat, etc.
  • Items to be added to the queue when the user has edited the content in reverse-chronological order
  • Past 20 stories
  • Ability to add and remove articles (explore)
• Integrating with Toolbelt
  • CNBC already has 3rd party statistics services accounts that we can utilize
• Non-MVP
  • Number of shares
  • Number of likes

Top 10 Performers (MVP)

• Objective
  • See the top 10 articles that are performing well today and did yesterday
• Functionalities
  • Similar to the Article Statistics section
  • Pull in the 10 articles that had the most visitor yesterday & doing well today

Statistics (MVP)

• Objective
  • View the site-wide statistics
• Functionalities
  • Pull in relevant site-wide statistics from 3rd party sources, e.g. Total visits
  • Ability to add and remove statistics (explore)
• Non-MVP
  • Users’ ability to configure which statistics to show
  • Have a separate Analytics page

Notification (MVP)

• Functionalities
  • Receive notification when the items the user are tracking get published
  • Alert with the number of unread notification
  • Notification item is linked to the corresponding content page in the CMS
  • Slack notification when there is a notification inside the CMS (explore)
• Non-MVP
  • Receive notification when the task is assigned to the user

Slack Notification (MVP) (Explore)

• Functionalities
  • Receive notifications in a specific channel when a content gets published
  • Any notification to the user

Simultaneous Editing (MVP)

• Objective
  • Multiple users to edit the same content simultaneously
• Functionalities
  • Show the users who are currently in the article
  • Field & Block-level locking: Single user takes the ownership of a field or a block. It appears locked to the other users.
  • Real-time update: The content that the other users are editing are broadcasted to all the other users

Autosaving & Save (MVP)

• Functionalities
  • Hard save saves to the database
  • Autosave the content (explore how often this should be performed)

Text Editor (MVP)

• Objective
  • Clean and simple editor for the users to efficiently create articles
• Functionalities
  • Block designation by paragraph
  • Paragraph-level options
    • Insert media from library (image, video, chart, audio, file)
    • Upload media
    • YouTube (<iframe>), Twitter (<blockquote>), etc. (a.k.a. Webservice)
      • Accepts both embed code and raw URL
    • Poll, Quiz (non-MVP)
    • Horizontal divider
  • Character selection options
    • Bold
    • Italicize
    • Headings
    • Unordered & Ordered list
    • Hyperlink
      • External URL
      • Tags (Person, Organization, Company, Place, Event)
      • Stock tickers (Security)
      • Contents (e.g. other articles)
  • Auto-tagging of stock ticker, Company, People, Place, Event
    • User clicks to auto-tag, and appropriate text gets hyperlinked to corresponding asset pages
    • Explore technologies, e.g. Media Lab, Open Calais
  • Auto-populate other fields based on input
    • All the embedded media will be populated in the Media card
    • Hyperlinked stock ticker gets populated in the Primary Tags section

Chat (MVP)

• Objective
  • Communicate with other users that are collaborating with the user
• Functionalities
  • Notification when there are unread messages with number of messages
  • @ mentioning someone who is not in the article alerts them in Slack (explore)

Preview (MVP)

• Objective
  • High fidelity preview of the content
• Functionalities
  • Responsive preview of the website for both Desktop and Mobile
  • Preview after a hard save or publish
• Integrating with Toolbelt
  • Toolbelt currently has the functionality

Schedule (non-MVP)

• Integrating with Toolbelt
  • Toolbelt currently has the functionality

Revision History (non-MVP)

• Store all the relevant information for future UI (MVP)
• Explore the technical possibilities

Article Metadata (MVP)

• Integrating with Toolbelt
  • Use fields that exist in Toolbelt
  • Information Architecture in progress to identify the fields that are necessary

Task Assignment (non-MVP)

• Functionalities
  • Send assignment to a specific user or a team of users
  • Available fields:
    • Recipient
    • Task – pre-defined & free text
    • Priority
    • Memo (optional)
  • Assigning a task will populate the recipient’s My Task card and become a notification

Social (MVP)

• Functionalities
  • Override the Tweet text and OG tags for Twitter
    • Initially map to:
      • Link Headline to Tweet
      • Title to Twitter article’s title
      • Description to Twitter article’s description
  • Preview how the tweeted article would look like, using Promo image and appropriate texts
  • Option to tweet to @CNBCTech appears when Technology is selected as Franchise/Section
• Non-MVP
  • Same functionalities for Facebook and LinkedIn accounts

Homepage Banner & Mobile Notification flags (MVP)

• Functionalities
  • Homepage Banner switch would display the breaking news banner on the Homepage, and Mobile Notification switch would send out Mobile notification to the users with CNBC mobile app
  • Role-based option: Only Hot Seat users can see these options
  • These option should be independent of the article’s publishing

Search & Filter (MVP)

• Functionalities
  • Keywords in any order
  • Searches over title, slug, descriptions, and tags
  • Filter
    • Type: Image, Video, Chart, Audio, File
    • Source: CNBC, Getty, AP, Reuters
      • Can select multiple
    • License: One-time, Premium, Free to use
    • Last published: > 1 day, > 3 days, > 1 week, > 1 month
      • Only available for Photo Desk
      • Other users would only see the photos that are available for use, i.e. licensed, free-to-use photos that haven’t been used in the last 2 days
  • Resetting the filters to default
• Integrating with Toolbelt
  • Toolbelt has search API

Grid View (MVP)

• Functionalities
  • Elements
    • Thumbnail
    • Source (logo)
    • License status (yes or no)
      • if yes, relevant licensing information (size, expire date, already used if one-time, etc.)
      • if not, option to license
    • Type (icon)
    • Slug, fall back to Title
  • On hover
    • Edit button – shows edit metadata screen
    • Checkbox to multi-select items

3rd party integration & licensing (MVP)

• Objective
  • View all the available images in a single feed
• Functionalities
  • See all the 3rd party images in the feed, both licensed and unlicensed
  • Licensing capability within the library
    • Pop-up for licensing
      • Source
      • Licensing restriction information, if any (Premium, one-time use)
      • Licensing option, if any (size, expire date, etc.)
      • License & Cancel buttons
  • Role-based licensing: All users can see the images, but licensing is only available for the Photo Desk users

Image Metadata (MVP)

• Functionalities
  • Fields
    • Modifiable fields
      • Slug (textfield)
        • Default – empty
      • Title (textfield)
      • Description (textarea)
      • Caption (textarea)
        • Default – first sentence of Description
      • Creator (textfield)
      • Tags: select from existing or create new tags
    • Static fields
      • Source
      • Source Filename
      • Width
      • Height
    • Pull applicable fields from the 3rd party source

Focal point & rectangle (MVP)

• Functionalities
  • Focal Point
    • Circular Focal Point that can be dragged and dropped on the large image preview
    • Global update of the image crops
    • Show the thumbnail of all the different image crop sizes
    • Real-time update of the thumbnails based on the adjustment of focal point
    • Search/filter the thumbnails with the name
  • Focal Rectangle
    • Rectangular Focal Rectangle that can be dragged and dropped on the large image preview
    • Ability to select individual image crop and adjust the focus of the selected image
      • Takes precedence over the focal point setting
    • Real-time update of the thumbnails based on the adjustment of focal point
    • Search/filter the thumbnails with the name
    • Ability to reset the focal rectangle settings
  • Explore technical details (Cloudinary)

Image Edit (MVP)

• Functionalities
  • Image Edit
    • Level
    • Vignette
    • Crop
      • If using services like Cloudinary
  • Real-time update of the large image thumbnail
  • Preset
    • Select from pre-existing preset
    • Create a new preset from the current setting
      • Set name, Save, and Cancel
  • Option to reset the image edit slider