August 2024 Meeting Notes

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 2:00PM

Shared Governance Board update

  • Subdomain requests
  • Reminder: Voted and unanimously approved Shutdown date of Drupal 7 on Thursday, December 19 at 10 a.m.

Transition Report

  • Transition progress - 171 former D7 sites have gone live in D10, 566 sites created in D10, 350 sites in d& in maintenance mode, 21 D7 sites permanently deleted
  • Sept 3: Deadline for all D7 sites to create new site in Next-Gen Cos
  • Sept 10: Report distributed via The Cache and at WDN Meeting of all remaining D7 sites for which no D10 site has been created
  • Sept 17: Sites without new sites or plan in D7 will be moved to maintenance mode
  • December 19: Shutdown of all D7 sites at 10 a.m.

Slacktivity

  • CMS Content: If something isn't working on your site, try "Flush all caches" (hover over Drupal icon in upper left). It will fix lots of small display issues before asking.
  • Reminder: CMS Documentation

WebAudit Metrics

Framework updates - 5.3.51

  • Update SASS to fix deprecated rules (slash as division)
  • Hard code modular scale-based CSS variables in :root
  • Remove alert banner if alert data doesn't exist, the banner will be removed (no longer have to refresh a page to remove an alert banner).

Public Information Apps Updates

  • Directory: Fixes, as well as QR code
  • Events: Added delete button on event edit page, removal of All Day events
  • Mediahub: AI Captions launched last month- Any issues or concerns?

Next-Gen CMS updates

  • New ability to download webform submissions from a URL - if you need this in the future, contact DXG to assist in configuring it for your site. Can still download webform results into XLS or CSV file.
  • URL/Link Issue fix coming to make subdomain persist (aka sample.unl.edu instead of cms.unl.edu/sample)
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Reminder: Next-Gen CMS - D7 is shutting down Dec. 19, 2024 at 10 a.m.