If not already famliar with Jobs you should read the BLOX CMS / Settings / Jobs / Jobs Overview article before this one.  Use the following steps to set up a Job to allow you to upload articles that are formatted using NITF XML via ftp and have them come into the system as a article asset. NITF stands for News Industry Text Format, more information on NITF can be found at https://iptc.org/standards/nitf/. You can validate your NITF XML file using the BLOX CMS NITF Validation Service. 

Click New to create a new job.

Setting Options

Under Source

Module: nitf_tncms

Location: feeds/articles/*.xml

Under Destination

Module: tncms

Location: (leave empty)

Destination Options (Click Add)

Name: use_site_timezone

Value: 1

For a full list of Destination Options view BLOX CMS / Settings / Jobs / Jobs Overview

Saving and Running

Click Save at the bottom of the popup window when complete. You can set a schedule for the job or run it manually.

Create a directory under /data/feeds/articles/ via FTP (if not already created) and upload your XML files along with any corresponding files like images, videos to it. Once the job runs the articles will show up in the admin in 5-10 minutes as a article assets.

Flags Support

Flags are not natively supported through NITF, but can be included in the feed via a meta section of name="tncms-flags" content="flag,flag".  Example:

<meta name="tncms-flags" content="featured,editors_pick,spotlight" />

Validating NITF for BLOX CMS

Visit Blox-CMS NITF Validation Service to upload your XML file and check to see if it will work on BLOX CMS