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Below are all the patches, updates and improvements made to the UBCMS this year.
June
06/14/2022
Table: Disabled "Table Properties" button when table is not selected
Flex UI: Keyboard shortcuts link in help menu now links to customized UBCMS shortcuts page instead of Adobe AEM shortcuts info.
Faces and Voices Hero: Fixed an issue where the editable area on the page covered more than just the component
Permissions Report: Hide complicated ACL details by default unless "Include effective permissions" checkbox is checked
News List: Fixed "List Options" tab label in dialog box. Also fixed disabled "Paginate after" option
Photo Teaser: Fix accessibility issue (link with no text) when no title is used
Call to Action Button Bar: Fixed SiteImprove accessibility false-positive warning about color contrast.
Directory Entry: Changed title in dialog box to match component name.
May
05/25/2022
Classic UI is retiring with this release. All Classic UI URLs will redirect to Flex UI.
Site Admin: Prevent non-publishers from moving and deleting published pages. These buttons are now disabled when unavailable, where before they could show an error message or incorrectly appear to work.
Form: Improve description and validation within Form Start dialog box. "To" and "From" now have labels and validation describing they must be email addresses. "Element name" field only allows valid IDs
List: Improved accessibility of lists automatically split into multiple columns by fixing output of any empty columns.
List: Fixed a bug where "Limit to" label was showing twice in the dialog box.
05/18/2022
Table: An ID can now be added to the entire table (for direct references in links from other pages. Also, the table dialog box has been sorted into multiple tabs.
Table: Fixed style (color, size, spacing) of numbered and bulleted lists in table cells.
Assets: Changed "Video" category to "Audio/Video" in page editor asset drawer so that audio assets can be selected for use in pages (such as in thee download or audio player components)
Reports: New Permission Audit report to keep an eye on who has access to your pages
Siteimprove: Fixed an issue where Siteimprove would flag "Download" in the file download component as being spelled wrong because saw it running together with adjacent words.
Full Width Carousel: Fixed an accessibility issue (empty heading) when heading is left blank.
Grid Story List (pilot): Individual Grid Story components can now be set to open in new window
Flex UI Dialogs: Fixed tool tip layout when hovering on "i" icons of checkboxes in Flex UI dialog boxes.
Brag Carousel: Fixed accessibility issue (missing title or description) on Brag Carousel component
April
04/20/2022
Photo: Flexible height and Float settings have moved outside the "Advanced" section of the dialog box and next to the "Image Size" setting
Photo: Hero size image, which expands the image beyond full column width to the full screen width, has completed its pilot and is available to all users.
Photo: Adaptive crop and zoom, which allows for zooming in on images used in teaser thumbnails and on mobile devices, and adjusting the center/focal point of the image when zooming and cropping, has completed its pilot and is available to all all users.
Horizontal SlideDeck: Hero slidedeck layout, which expands the slidedeck beyond the full column width to the full screen width, has completed its pilot and is available to all users.
Dynamic List: Improved accessibility of faceted list navigation buttons.
Photo: Fix for zoomed images sometimes having the caption repeated.
04/06/2022
SP12: Install latest service pack from Adobe, AEM 6.5.12. We do not expect any noticeabe changes or new features from this install.
Workflow: Allow some workflows to be restricted to page authors.
Page Properties: Fix for Flex UI page properties teaser image not updating when uploading a new image in author, and not showing the new image correctly as a teaser in lists.
March
03/16/2022
Flex UI: Add "Recently used" pages and assets to start page.
Form Text Field: Fixed text in Flex UI dialog box.
Workflow: Fixed issue preventing some users from starting workflows on Assets.
Siteimprove: Fixed broken link being reported in Siteimprove reports.
Flex UI: Add links to UBCMS documentation in Help (?) menu.
Adaptive Crop (pilot): Updates to sizing guides in adaptive crop tool.
February
2/9/2022
The default authoring mode for all authors will be switched to Flex UI. Authors can click the Classic UI link on the Flex UI welcome screen if they still need to use Classic UI for certain tasks or need more time to prepare for this transition. Classic UI will become permanently inaccessable on Wednesday, May 25.
Require HTTP/HTTPS: Settings for "Require HTTP", "Require HTTPS" and "Require SSL Site-Wide" (all in page properties) have been fixed system-wide after a long period of being unreliable. All uses of "Require SSL Site-Wide" have been reset since they weren't really in effect before. Please see additional communications about testing and switchin on "Require SSL Site-Wide" by March 9, 2022 to improve the overall security of UB web sites.
News: Fixed an issue where tags were not initialized correctly in some cases on News Article Shared Content pages.
Accessibility: Improved accessibility (reduced Siteimprove warnings of "no Alt text") of images with Zoom enabled.
Form: Validation of email addresses in forms now allows (and trims off) spaces before or after email addresses in form responses.
January
1/26/2022
Content Tree (Flex UI): The activation status (not published, published, modified since published) is shown for references and assets in the Flex UI Content Tree (when editing a page, open the drawer/panel below assets and components, or type "t")
Private Authoring: Show a banner on pages in private author mode to show that only certain users have access. Also created an optional column in list view to show what pages have private authoring set.
Tags (Flex UI): Added a button in page properties (and when creating a page) to copy all tags from the parent page.
List Builder (Flex UI): Fixed list builder having no placeholder when a new list is first added (or list is empty)
Live Copy (pilot): Title is now filled in by default when creating a new Live Copy
Reports: Updated Brag, F&V, Quote, and Story reports to properly filter by page type.
Photo of the Week (pilot): Accessibility fix for links not clearly identifiable.
Tabs: Accessibility fix for ARIA properties not being used correctly in some cases.
Page: Fixed unintentional page sideways-scrolling (extra space to the right of the page) on tablet-size screens caused by the Faces and Voices Hero component and Fat Footer components.
Adaptive Crop and Zoom (pilot): Added desktop zoom feature and other refinements.
Forms: Fixed a problem when trying to view stored form data in some cases.