Below are all the patches, updates and improvements made to the UBCMS in 2015.
October: Dynamic List components| Collapsible Content anchors open content when clicked | long words and displayed URLs wrap | Bug fixes
10/28/15
- Dynamic List: The Dynamic List and related components were in pilot mode and are now enabled for all sites. The Dynamic List allows authors to build lists that can be customized by site visitors, such as by searching or filtering by tag or date.
- Vanity URLs: For some published hosts (e.g. engineering.buffalo.edu), very short vanity URLs were masked by other URL rules. Short vanity URLs will now work as expected.
- List Component: "Display as: Full content" and “Open links in new window” settings are incompatible and now disable each other when selected.
- Versioning: When creating a new page version from the sidekick, the “Label” field was not working for most authors, but should now be fixed.
- Workflows (pilot): Workflows can now be created to work with DAM assets.
10/14/15
- Highlight module Youtube videos: fixed an error parsing some youtube URLs, such as youtu.be/.
- Highlight module Youtube videos: also fixed highlight photos with videos getting stretch in RWD mode in some cases.
- Collapsible Content: links to headings within a closed collapsible content container now scroll down the page to the correct heading, not just the top of the collapsible section.
- All text: URLs and very long words that would not wrap and overflow their column will now be broken to new lines as needed to fit within the column.
- Internet Explorer version 8 and 7: some small errors were causing older versions of IE to render pages very poorly, such as entirely without photos. This is resolved. Pages should generally be functional, but may not be pixel-perfect in old browsers.
- Workflows (pilot): an error has been fixed that was causing repeated emails when a workflow was completed and annotations to stay on the page.
- Slidedeck: Horizontal: some errors when clicking to the next and previous slides have been resolved.
- Breadcrumbs: breadcrumbs now use “Navigation Title” field (if present) rather than “Page Title” for shared content in host mode.
Most of these changes were planned for last week, but then postponed.
September: Dividers in RCC's | Photo Gallery + Slide Show now retired | Comments no longer recommended | List Builder has new RWD options; new stewardship properties, UB Alert banner is RWD compatible; performance upgrade
9/23/2015
- Divider Component: dividers added to the related content component match the dividers on other related content components (two lines). Existing dividers are unaffected. Also, the divider on a pull quote is hidden if it is immediately preceded by the article tools component, leading to two dividers.
- Highlight Modules: youtube videos can be added to highlight modules (shared content). The video will be shown in slideshows, carousels, and other list teasers.
- Retired Photo Gallery and Photo Slideshow: as described a month ago, these components have now been removed from the sidekick. Please use the new Photo Gallery component, which will now be the only one listed in the sidekick. Existing uses of the old gallery and slideshow will still continue to work.
- Sitemap Component: fixed a bug where the sitemap could not be edited when added to a page marked “Hide in Sitemap Component”.
- Comments: the comments component is now only available in the “Experimental Components” section of the sidekick. Adobe has made comments in future versions of CQ incompatible with the current version and we want to restrict usage until we decide how to proceed. Existing uses of the comments component (including visitors posting new comments) are unaffected.
- Dynamic List (pilot users): removed multiple "Start in" paths due to performance problems
- User Permissions (pilot users): The "Manage Group Membership” option has been re-enabled on the welcome screen.
- Workflow (pilot users): Annotations are now added and removed from shared content pages in workflow, similar to normal pages.
- Performance: the request coalescing filter described in the last deployment was switched off due to a problem. It will be enabled again with this deployment.
9/9/2015
- List Builder: added separate list limit options (number of items displayed) for mobile and desktop.
- Stewardship: consolidated stewardship fields in page properties (Page Maintainer, Review Date) to new “Stewardship" tab and added more stewardship fields (Subject Matter Expert, Review Frequency, Notes) to page properties and page report.
- Feed Importer: to lighten system load, importing of feeds with more than 50 changes are deferred until off hours (9:30 PM - 5:30 AM).
- Photo (and other components using images): fixed error when image crop coordinates are outside image bounds.
- UB Alert Banner: enabled RWD on UB Alert banner.
- Performance: on published pages, concurrent requests for the same page are now coalesced into one and only generated once. This is intended to help prevent the server from being overloaded by requests to computationally expensive pages that have been purged from the dispatcher cache.
August: new Table styles, improved large image rendering, more Hide in Navigation options, etc.
8/26/2015
- Tables: added styles menu to table component dialog box with choices like vertical striped, vertical ruled, and no border.
- Links: "tel:" links now work correctly in body text, fixed lists, and wherever links can be entered.
- Navigation Options: new navigation options (launched 8/5) are now available in shared content page properties dialog boxes.
- Form components: removed miscellaneous options that did not work (description field and a few others) from form dialog boxes.
- Create Page dialog box: removed broken "example" links from page template descriptions.
8/5/2015
- Photo and related components: the blocking of large images has been relaxed. A more efficient resizing algorithm is now used, greatly reducing the impact of large images on the system. Images up to 6000px wide or tall are now allowed. There are currently no images affected by this limit.
- Navigation Options: in page properties, navigation options like "Hide in Navigation" have been moved to their own section. Also, "Hide in Navigation" has been broken into separate options like Hide in Top, Left, Mobile, Sitemap, etc. Pages that used to have "Hide in Navigation" set now have all these options set to preserve the same behavior.
- On This Page: headings hidden with the Content Optimization Container are now hidden in the On This Page list
- Callout: fixed bulleted and numbered list styling
- Workflow pilot: the issue with links missing ".html" in emails is now fixed.
July: Dynamic Lists, Photo Gallery patched, RWD 'overview title' restored, Pull Quote change
7/29/2015
- Photo (and other components using photos): added a check on image dimensions to protect the server from trying to render very large images. A red “X” image will be served when the size limit is exceeded. This size limit is critical to protect the server from consuming too much memory and crashing. The initial limit should not disrupt any existing images, but we may communicate about more restrictive limits in the future.
- List (and related components): pages that are not fully activated (with a jcr:content node, such as when a child page is activated without the parent being activated) no longer cause an error on the whole page
- SlideDeck: Horizontal: fixed randomization of slides
- SlideDeck: Horizontal: removed extra space between slide deck and top nav on home pages
- Related Pull Quote: changed link field to allow selecting a path
- Flex Module: changed to small bullet on “Call To Action” list style
- Flex Module: added option to open link in new window
- Photo: fixed empty zoom caption
- Form Text Field: fixed “Only Show Value” could not be unchecked
- Photo Gallery (New): fixed issue with some image captions
- Mobile Menu: a page root can now be entered in the mobile menu dialog box
- Shortcut: fixed Cmd-E/Ctrl-E author shortcut (was broken in some browsers, and when using content finder)
7/14/2015
- Dynamic List Pilot: Many changes from pilot group feedback. See separate list below.
- Related Pull Quote: The quoted person’s name can now be a link.
- Photo Gallery (new): Fixed issues in mobile Safari.
- User Permissions Pilot: Added option to create group (sub-site) that can be seen by all.
- Mobile Menu: Restored “Overview Title” functionality accidentally removed in a recent release.
- Author profiles: Author email addresses will be migrated to an updated storage format in preparation for the Workflow pilot. No visible changes are expected.
Dynamic List changes include:
- List: Added tag filter and multiple start path selection.
- List: Allowed author to add a title that appears only when the list appears (e.g. “Matching articles” or “Search results”).
- List: Added new display/template choice for author: “Teasers: News (with dates and feature story).”
- Tag and Archive Facets: Allowed author to add some descriptive text (e.g “Explore matches by month.”
- Archive Facet: Allowed author to edit title.
- Archive Facet: Allowed author to limit months displayed by date range.
- Archive Facet: Allowed author to limit months to a fixed number (e.g. top 12 months).
- Tag Facet: Switched path selector to tag selector, enabling multiple tag selection. Multiple tags match or/any-style.
- Tag Facet: Added sorting options: most frequently used (default), alphabetical.
- Tag Facet: Allowed author to limit number of tags shown.
- Tag Facet: Allowed author to limit tags shown to only ones used > N times.
- Tag Facet: Adjusted “compact” format: fix line spacing, drop numbers.
- Tag Facet: Adjusted “cloud” format sizes and styling.
- Stats: Dropped “for {term}” part of “Results 1 – 3 of 3 for {term}”.
- Various components: Added “(This message will not show in preview mode or on the live site.)” to callout hints to authors.