We switched to Saxotech for our print and online CMS last year. The company supposedly has a user group, but all evidence of it that I can find is really dated. I'd love to be able to pick your brain if you're using this CMS. Tech support is usually helpful (eventually), but I'm sure we could all learn more from fellow online journalists actually using the system.

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We use it at RGJ.com -- nearly all the Gannett sites use the system as well. I've used it both from a template designer and an editor's perspective. What kind of questions do you have?
We use it for our online publishing. Pretty intuitive system, though I can't address the template designer viewpoint.
Well, a number of things just don't work the way they're supposed to. Polling, for example. Do you ever use Saxo to create polls? This is one of many areas where we are considering a workaround.

I'm the link between the newsroom and the technical Web folks here, but I'm on my own frequently for development, so I've done quite a bit of template building and tinkering.
We never used the Saxotech polls. We were using our own custom system, but recently we switched to Polldaddy at http://www.polldaddy.com/. It's free and perfect in nearly every way.
We use the polls, and they are finicky at best. What type of problems are you running into?
Thanks for the tip, Marcel. I'll try that.

We can't get the Saxotech database to retain user information entered in the contest part of the polling module. We also cannot format poll results, which pretty much makes them useless. A big part of the reason people take polls is to see how others have voted. These features are supposed to work, according to Saxotech's documentation. We just can't seem to make it happen.
We use Saxotech for polls on the front page and section fronts of Recordnet.com, as do other newspapers in Ottaway. While I have no idea why you are struggling to format the poll results, I don't know if it is worth the hassle. I find the polls a challenge merely because of the limit of how many options you can give and the character limits.
For anybody who hasn't seen it yet, there's now a Saxotech users group at http://saxotech.ning.com. You also can tap into Saxotech's developer community at http://community.saxotech.com.
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