UBCMS upgrading to CQ 5.5

CQ 5.5 screenshot showing the new look: UB North Campus panorama with a green sign-in field.

This is a CQ 5.5 screenshot showing the new look of the sign-in page.

Published June 19, 2014 This content is archived.

University Communications has been working with its IT and academic partners across campus to implement an upgrade of the UB Content Management System (UBCMS) to Adobe CQ 5.5. The new version is anticipated to be ready for use late Friday afternoon.

Important Notes

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  • The upgrade is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 20 and will continue through to Friday afternoon.
  • The author environment will be unavailable during the upgrade; however, your live websites will be fine.
  • On Friday, June 21, the author and publisher environments will be upgraded to CQ 5.5 as early as 1 p.m. and possibly as late as 3 p.m.
  • Verification of the success of the upgrade will occur from 1 to 3 p.m.
  • This will be followed by an announcement reporting that the upgrade has been completed and the UBCMS is once again available.

For the most part, CQ 5.5 will function similarly to the current version CQ 5.4. Authors will notice that the log-in screen looks different—it's green instead of blue. Additionally, CQ 5.5 comes with a host of new features, including "undo/redo" functionality. Here's a summary of this functionality from the Adobe overview page:

"The behavior of the undo and redo commands is similar to that in other software programs. Use the commands to restore the recent state of your web page as you make decisions about content. For example, if you move a text paragraph to a different location on the page, you can use the undo command to move the paragraph back. If you then decide again to move the paragraph, use the redo command.

"When you undo or redo the removal, addition, or relocation of one or more paragraphs, flashing highlights indicate the affected paragraphs. (Your administrator can change this default behavior.)

CQ stores a history of actions that you perform and the sequence in which you performed them. So, you undo several actions in the order that you performed them. Then, you can use redo to re-apply one or more of the actions. By default, you can undo a maximum of 20 edit actions. (Your administrator can change this default value.)"