Managing WebSked publications
Use the Publications page in WebSked to bundle related stories that need to be used in an external channel. This feature is helpful for email newsletters, mobile application content packages, and print editions.
Each Publication operates on a recurring schedule—like weekdays at 5:00 am—that determines when editions become available. Your team can pitch stories to either the Publication's general backlog or target a specific scheduled edition, such as Friday's print issue.
On the Publications page, WebSked organizes content according to the following structure:
Publication Sets - organize groups of publications by region, site, etc. If your organization has few publications or they are easy to organize, you do not need Publication Sets.
Publication Names - identify individual publications you manage in WebSked.
Sections - represent individual content areas inside your WebSked publications, such as Sports, Lifestyle, and Politics. You define sections when creating your publication in WebSked. You can modify a section name after creation but not change the section ID after creation.
As an editor of a news organization, you need to create a newsletter publication that goes live at 5 am, when your new edition becomes available on your website.
You access WebSked's Publications page to configure a Newsletter publication. This publication goes live every weekday at 5 am and showcases the most important stories of that edition.
Throughout the day, you review and select the most important stories from pitches submitted by your content team.
You close the publication for pitches every day at 8 pm, triggering the necessary tasks to deliver the selected content to your subscribers' inboxes the next day at 5 am.
Procedures
To create a publication, complete the following:
Navigate to the WebSked application. The WebSked page opens.
Click the Publications tab. The Publications page opens.
Click Create publication. The Create publication window opens.
Complete the following fields:
Name - set a unique name for your publication, such as Daily Newsletter.
Description - enter a comprehensive description of what the publication is about.
Publication set - select an option from the dropdown menu. If your organization has few publications, this option may not be available.
Website - select one of your organization's websites to associate the publication.
Section name - provide a name to represent the individual content areas in your publication.
Section ID - enter a unique identifier to help you organize and structure content in your publication.
Tip
Your publication's section name and ID are unrelated to the Site Service section name and ID. You can set unique name and ID for your publication.
Hours of the day - select the hour your publication becomes available on your website.
Publication section recurrence type - set the recurrence rules to determine when the section appears. You can select Daily, Once per week, Multiple per week, Once per month, or Multiple per month.
Optionally, click Add a section to include an additional publishing space.
Click Create publication.
Your publication becomes available on WebSked's Publications page and other Arc XP applications, such as Composer, enabling your teams to pitch content to a specific publication.
To create a publication, complete the following:
Navigate to the WebSked application. The WebSked page opens.
Click the Publications tab. The Publications page opens.
Click the funnel icon
. The Filter left-panel opens.Click Manage publication sets. The Publication sets page opens.
Click Create new set. The Publication sets window opens.
Complete the following:
Name - set a descriptive name for the set, such as Latin America.
Description - provide a brief description of what this publication set contains.
Click Save.
The publication set becomes available in the Filters panel.
Important
You cannot edit a Publication set. Yet, you can delete them. Deleting a publication set cannot be undone.
To update a publication, complete the following:
Navigate to the WebSked application. The WebSked page opens.
Click the Publications tab. The Publications page opens.
Navigate to the desired publication and click the ellipsis icon
> Configure. The Update publication window opens.Make the required changes to the publication.
Click Update publication.
A Publication updated successfully confirmation message appears at the bottom of the page.
To preview and select stories, complete the following:
Navigate to the WebSked application. The WebSked page opens.
Click the Publications tab. The Publications page opens.
From the list, click the name of a publication. The publication detailed view window opens, displaying all the sections within that edition.
Click View pitches. The section details right panel opens, displaying all stories pitched to that section.
Click a story headline. A preview page opens.
On the preview page, you can open a Detailed view or Open in editor to make additional changes to the story.
Click < Back to return to the View pitches panel.
In the View pitches panel, click the checkbox next to the story headline. The Publication section panel opens.
Select the section where you want to publish the story.
Select if the story should move to Backlog or the current Edition.
Select a status for your story:
Pitched - an editor has not acted on the pitch.
Booked - an editor has selected and approved the content for inclusion in a specific edition.
Declined - an editor has decided the content for a particular edition.
Add an optional note for the story.
Click Confirm. A green confirmation message appears at the bottom of the page.
After booking stories into sections, you can rearrange them by dragging the move icon 
and the up and down arrows in the bottom-left corner of each card.
After booking the stories for the publication, you must close the edition. To finalize an edition, complete the following:
Navigate to the WebSked application. The WebSked page opens.
Click the Publications tab. The Publications page opens.
From the list, click the name of a publication. The publication detailed view window opens, displaying all the sections within that edition.
Click the lock icon
to close the section for additional pitches.You can also check the Close to pitches option in the View pitches panel.
Finalizing an edition triggers a Finalize edition notification, and the system sends the group of stories to the appropriate print CMS or email platform, for example.
Curating from the backlog offers the same functionalities as Previewing and selecting stories for a publication section.
The backlog contains all content that has not yet been assigned to a specific edition.