Redesign CADRAGE format selection for web, video, social, and print

[tomvaillant]

Problem

CADRAGE question 3 currently asks for one destination too early:

Where will this visual appear?
- Social vertical — Stories/Reels
- Social feed — Instagram/Facebook post
- Article web/embed — interactive, image or video

Journalists often need more than one deliverable, especially web plus video. Print is also a legitimate destination. The current single-choice channel model conflates destination, format, and aspect ratio, and it pushes social aspect decisions before the visual concept is settled.

@rmdms

Suggested solution

Replace the current question with a staged production-plan flow.

Stage 1: deliverables, multi-select

Ask what is needed:

• Web/article
• Video
• Social
• Print

Allow one or several choices.

Stage 2: choose the production path

• If web is among several requested outputs, start with the web version as the editorial master, then derive or separately route requested video/static variants.
• If video is the only deliverable, route directly to video.
• If print is selected, require a static, print-safe output and collect print constraints later.
• Treat each output as an explicit deliverable tied to the same confirmed takeaway; never silently duplicate or drop one.

Stage 3: defer output-specific dimensions

Ask aspect ratio only when entering a video/social export that needs it. Prefer destination defaults and a lightweight confirmation over asking dimensions during initial CADRAGE. Collect print size/orientation only on the print branch.

The data model likely needs a plural production plan such as deliverables[] instead of one global channel, with format eligibility evaluated per deliverable. Preserve backward compatibility for existing single-channel accepted files.

Acceptance criteria

• A journalist can request web + video in one CADRAGE response.
• Video-only requests bypass web production.
• Print is represented as a first-class deliverable.
• Aspect ratio questions occur only on branches that require them and after the editorial format is chosen.
• Every requested deliverable appears in the accepted production plan and final report.
• Tests cover web-only, video-only, web+video, social+web, and print combinations.
• No requested output is silently dropped, and one output cannot inherit an incompatible format from another.