WCMS Updates

January 18, 2012

Current version

• UW Base Profile 1.2 released in early December

• Highlights– Thumbnails for news and events– Improved promotional item placement– Site managers able to clear site cache

Our next release – 1.3

• Testing next week then rolling out• Highlights

– Image galleries– Archive functionality– Able to view pages as an anonymous user

when logged in (can hide tabs)– New sidebar content layout templates

Our next release – 1.3

• Highlights (continued)– UX improvements to content management

interfaces– Improved semantic markup for pages with

multiple items– Introduction of the Node Hierarchy module to

help manage site structure

Coming in version 1.4

• Web forms– With fillable PDFs

• Many contributed module updates

• Locations for events feeding from a central site

In the works

• Blog and newsletter features

• Scheduled content publication

• A generic theme for sites with multiple affiliations or non-uWaterloo sites– E.g. Cross-institution research groups, Staff Association

• Improved support for social media

In the works

• A Drupal 7 Features server to share our code

• New content types and/or functionality for specific sites– E.g. Find a researcher/OFIS integration, catalogue of

exchange programs

• Check the Web Resources site for more information regarding updates

Requests for new functionality

• A formal process is being developed to review new functionality requests. The following criteria will be considered:– Business Needs– Breadth of Implementation– Accessibility– The Appropriate Technology– User Needs– Development Time