After you have created your liveblog, you can start filling it with content (posts). Content can be in plain text form or can be various media, link / embeds, quotes, emojis, comments, sport events, scoreborads, player cards, web content & extensions and much more.  It is important to click "Post Message" when you have a finished post so that your content and changes are not lost. Once a post is saved, it will appear on the right side of the editor in the preview in chronological order. 

When uploading images to your live blog, you have three options for adding descriptions and credits to your media: Manual Entry: Add descriptions and credits individually for each image. Batch Processing: Apply a single description and credits to all media in the same post. Tickaroo AI Smart Assist: Let our AI generate suitable image descriptions for your media automatically. Choose the option that best fits your workflow!

Take your liveblog collaboration to the next level with this feature! All reporters in your organization can create new posts or edit posts made by others. To avoid conflicts, each editor will see an info box above a post if another editor is currently working on it. This ensures that multiple editors don’t unintentionally overwrite the same post. Additionally, the name of the post creator is displayed next to each post (this can be turned off by navigating to Liveblog Integration > Edit Themes). When creating a new post, you can also assign other users who have already contributed to the liveblog as authors. Enhance teamwork, avoid conflicts, and streamline your liveblog creation process!

When you create a message in the liveblog, you work with so-called blocks.  There are the following blocks: Rich Text, Media, Link / Embed, Quote, Emoji, Comments, Sports Event, Scoreboard and Player Map.   Include as many blocks as you like in your message, swap them in order or delete them again. Add blocks: Add blocks by clicking on + Add Content to select your desired block. The new block will always appear below the existing blocks. Arrange blocks: Change the order of your blocks by selecting the control pad above the block and dragging the block to the desired location in the message.  Delete blocks: Above each block you will find a trash can icon that allows you to remove blocks from a message one at a time.

For particularly long texts, it’s a good idea to limit the height of the post. This helps keep your liveblog clear and easy to follow, even when sharing a lot of content on the topic. Below the Rich Text field, you’ll find the option "No Highlight" to limit the post height for this specific entry.

Filter your posts in the Live Blog Editor by: All Published Unpublished Highlights Tags In the live blog preview on the right-hand side, you will find the filter icon. Select which posts you want to display in your live blog preview to make your work easier. All: All posts in this live blog are displayed. Published: All posts that have been created and published in this live blog are displayed. Unpublished: All posts that have been created in this live blog but are saved as "Do not publish" or are scheduled for the future are displayed. Highlights: All posts marked and saved as highlights are displayed. Tags: All posts with the selected tag are displayed. This setting only affects the live blog preview in the Tickaroo Editor and has no impact on the live blog on your website. Each author can set this individually, and it does not influence the settings of other authors.

Activating Tags:  When creating a new live blog, you can already choose whether to activate tags. You can also activate tags in already created live blogs through the live blog settings. Tags must be activated if you want to use them. If this feature is not visible to you, please contact your Tickaroo representative or [email protected]. Creating Tags:  Create new tags in the settings of your live blog. Editing Tags:  Tags can be edited at any time in the live blog settings. Using Tags for Posts:  Create a new post and select the desired tag(s) below the rich text field. The chosen tags will now appear in the live blog preview above your post. For more information about how tags are displayed on the website, see below. Filtering by Tags (Editorial Team):  To make the editorial team’s work easier, live blog posts can be filtered in the editor preview on the right side. In addition to the option to filter by published, unpublished, and highlight posts, you can now use tags to select which posts are displayed to the editorial team in the preview. This does not affect how the posts are displayed to your readers on the website. Filtering by Tags (Readers):  If you also display the tags on your website, your readers can filter the live blog for content that is relevant to them. Tag Settings in the Theme Generator:  Open the theme that you are using or want to use/edit for your website. Under options, you will now find various settings for the tags: Tag Display: Determines the position or visibility of the tags on a post on your website. Tag Filter: Choose between Tag List (tags are displayed side by side on the website, max. 12 tags), Tag Search (a kind of dropdown, automatically activated for more than 12 tags), or No Filter (if tags are only for internal use or live blogs have already been pre-filtered). Tag Syndication using Content Streams: If you are using our Content Stream feature, you have the option to use tag syndication to organize live blogs. You can automatically syndicate individual posts tagged with specific tags from a source live blog into a new live blog. You can find more information here: Content Streams: Tag Syndication

Saved messages/posts can be edited at any time, whether they have already been published immediately or saved as not unpublished. Next to the liveblog editor in the liveblog preview, go to the post you want to edit. Next to each post you will find three icons. For unpublished messages, there are four icons. Eye icon: Publish message: The message will appear in the liveblog timeline when it was posted Publish and set to current time: The message appears as the newest message in the liveblog Edit icon: The post opens in the editor area where you can edit it again. Clock icon: Change the date & time of your post. It will then appear at the desired position in the liveblog.  Dot icon: Delete post Select info date & time: When you create or edit a message, you can use the "calendar icon" to set the date & time for publishing.  Right now: Your post will appear in the liveblog at the time it was published/saved. Date & time in the future: Select a time in the future if you want your post to appear automatically at the desired time in the future. Date & time in the past: The post will appear at the desired time in the past.