Communications
CMS Announce
The CMS Announce mailing lists are the primary method of communication regarding the Cascade and Drupal CMS services. They provide email alerts of maintenance and outages, plus notifications about upgrades and new template features and functionality. New website managers are automatically subscribed to their CMS Announce list, but anyone interested in keeping up-to-date on the Cascade or Drupal CMS services may also subscribe.
Subscribe to CASCADE CMS Announce
SUBSCRIBE TO DRUPAL ANNOUNCE
Computing Services Status Board
The Computing Services status board provides CMS related outage and maintenance alerts.
Upcoming Features
Check here for the latest information related to upcoming features and releases in Drupal and Cascade that address bug fixes and requested changes from content editors across campus.
Drupal
- Single Links in Main Navigation — Main navigation items will be able to have a single link with no dropdown menu. This is achievable now with a workaround, but this update will make it easier to implement for content editors.
- Rich Text Background Color Options — On full-width templates like Secondary, College Landing, and Marketing pages, Rich Text content types will have background color options including light gray and black.
- Standardized Spacing — Spacing between paragraph headers and descriptions will be consistent so that paragraphs can be used next to each other or interchanged while coordinating.
- Finder Dropdowns — If the Finder presents a long list of options, there will be an option to scroll through them instead of the page expanding the entire list and creating excess white space on the page.
- Finder Images — There will be additional flexibility for Finder image size ratios.
- Internal Linking — When scheduling content to publish, you'll be able to find a Draft page as a node option for internal linking purposes.
- Horizontal Rules — The Horizontal Rule content type will have a background theme color selector for all background options including white, light gray and black as in other content types.
In the Queue
These features are in the pipeline, but will not necessarily be included in the next Drupal release.
- SSO protected pages
- Using the Academic Program header on Secondary templates
- Accessible Accordion components
- Redesigned Grid components
- Optional "Description" text boxes available on more content types
- Application Checklist styling improvements
- Custom section IDs for anchor links
- Updates to Scheduled Transition publishing tool