In this article, we cover the FORGE app that is dedicated to delivering live blog posts: FORGE LIVE BLOGGING.
Topics covered here:
- Overview
- Permissions
- The five different areas of FORGE LIVE BLOGGING
- What does a live blog look like on the front-end?
Overview
In FORGE Back Office, you come across content that changes often, but not in real-time.
Live content requires a different and leaner approach: that's when FORGE LIVE BLOGGING comes into play.
FORGE LIVE BLOGGING can get editorial entities from the FORGE Content Manager as an external data source. However, it has its back office with dedicated permissions to allow editorial teams to create and publish live blog posts.
Permissions
FORGE LIVE BLOGGING provides three categories of roles:
- Administrators
- Administrator — can do anything across the back end of the LIVE BLOGGING tool.
- Media Administrator — can manage media in the back office — photos, videos, albums, and audio.
- Content creators
- Editor — can create new content and edit blogs.
- Viewers
- Viewer — can view content in the back office and can't edit content.
- AccessBackend — can view the current version of the product (which can be found at the bottom of the Dashboard page).
Administrators
Administrators create and configure blogs and manage reporters as content creators of blog posts.
Besides, dedicated administrators manage media that can be inserted into blog posts.
Content creators
Editors are the content creators who write blog posts.
The five different areas of FORGE LIVE BLOGGING
Inside the LIVE BLOGGING tool, there are six areas that users can access. They are:
- Dashboard: The first screen users see after logging into the LIVE BLOGGING tool for the first time. This area only shows a welcome message, and the version of the LIVE BLOGGING tool. All five roles access this page.
- Live Blogs: Where users can create, edit, and manage their live blogs. Editors, administrators, viewers, and media administrators can all access this area.
- Media Management: Where users can upload and edit different media they'd like to add to Live Blogs — namely video, imagery, galleries, and audio. Editors, administrators, viewers, and media administrators can all access this area.
- Reporters Management: Where administrators can control the profile of reporters who contribute to Live Blogs.
- External data: It's the entry page where to connect a client's external data to a live blog. For example, an updated league table or a Getty Imagery feed with the latest pictures. This data can be linked to the LIVE BLOGGING tool in three ways: 1) No-code post parts, 2) External post parts, and 3) Datasources. Only administrators can access this area.
- Administration: Where administrators can change the whole structure of a live blog, for example: changing the blog's default language from English to Italian. Only administrators can access this area.
What does a live blog look like on the front-end?
LIVE BLOGGING delivers the typical timeline structure of a blog, where each post narrates a moment: