tackley/live-dashboard — Issue #13: lead content indicator
Author: tackley
Created: 2012-03-06 10:21:40+00:00
State: open

Highlight stories in the recently published list if it is marked as "lead" for the section tag of its section.

On 24 February 2012 11:24, Stephen Abbott wrote:
> 2) Are we able to query for lead content in the content API yet? The editors
> want a way to signal that a story is important. I know they can just do this
> by talking to each other or using email - but they've very keen on this. If
> we can't query for lead, is there a way to add an 'important' manual tick
> box next to stories? Or would that be shit?

Lead content is in the api, but you can only find out by asking a tag
for its lead content - you can't discover that a paticular item of
content has had the lead item ticked. So it's not really practical to
find out from the api right now. (I'd have to ask the api for lead
content info for each tag on each item of content.)

The "important" tick box idea - is that just to be able to flag up to
other users of the dashboard that something is important? (Kind of
like a +1 button). That'd be relatively easy to do, although with the
caveat that if the dashboard restarts the information gets lost.

Yep. It's kind of like a manual +1 for the editors to mark which stories should definitely go on the front. Would be great to do if we could properly query the API to ask for only the content where lead is ticked next to the section tag on the content (I put in a request with Sharath to be able to query for lead and star ratings months ago) - but for now, it would really placate the editors to be able to note that the story is important. Not worried about losing these ticks if dashboard goes down

So you're only interested when the item of content is lead for its *section* tag? Not when it's lead for *any* tag?

That's sounding much more doable - what I'd have to do is once I see a new item of content I then query the api for the lead content for its one and only section tag (or the first section tag it has) and see if it's in the list. That's practical - only one more call to the api for each item of content. Is the content always set to be lead before it's launched, or do I need to check regularly afterwards to see it become lead?

Amazing to hear we might be able to do this. Lead story is always set on the tags before launch (or at least it should be).

So if you could show if the story has lead for its section tag, that would be incredible useful as an automated way for editors to show importance.

It will also help us to reinforce that the editors need to mark things as lead for them to work across everywhere.

So a simple marker which says LEAD next to anything which has its section tag ticked for lead would make my production dreams come true.