Content
Shared Governance Board update
- Discussion on forthcoming update to brand assets
- Communication about upcoming Title II ADA Accessibility deadline
- Reminder: Deadline for 6.0 Theme switch in UNL CMS
- April 8: Sites in 5.3 or older will be failed in WebAudit
- July 8: UNL CMS sites will automatically be switched to 6.0 theme
Gov Board meetings are first and third Thursdays at 2 p.m. on go.unl.edu/wdn-zoom. Non-members may join as nonvoting attendees.
Slacktivity
Centering Tables
I’m often asked by site admins how to center a table, that’s added in the text editor, on a page.
Once we upgrade to Drupal 11 after the end of the semester (mid May), the Styles dropdown in CKEditor (Body field), which currently allows users to apply different text sizes and button styles, can also be configured to include table-specific styling options. This would enable features such as centering the entire table. …[C]entering the text within table cells is already possible – just not the entire table itself.
Tables in Email Newsletters
I’m trying to figure out how to do a table in a [email] newsletter (i.e. UComm Announce) and not having much luck. In the past I made into a .jpg graphic, but then it won’t meet accessibility standards, and I have another table to add and several photos. I’m using “ ” to try to line up, but I don’t know if that will change on different devices.
Tables aren’t supported. Options would be what you’re doing or a paragraph format.
Requesting Updates to Majors Content
Who should I contact about possible changes to info on a majors page/site?
Contact your college/department admissions representative to send their changes through Academic Services and Enrollment.
Framework Documentation Location
Are the old pages on wdn.unl.edu (before the next-gen CMS) showing the styling help still available? I’m building a web app and specifically looking to use dcf-columns-2 but split them like a 33/67% across the page, but having the old resources would be very helpful.
Framework Documentation is now available on Github.
UNL CMS Workshops
- Self-guided review of documentation and introductory training video required for attendance.
- Request sandbox site access at https://cms.unl.edu/sandbox-site-access-request/
- Monthly workshops on Zoom offered on the 2nd Thursday of each month @ 2 p.m. and are open to anyone who has a question about UNL CMS or just wants guidance on best practices for building pages.
- RSVP for a UNL CMS Workshop
WebAudit Metrics
- https://webaudit.unl.edu/groups/unl/
- Slightly revision in how scores are being reported this month.
- WATCH YOUR LINKS! With all sites live in the new system, some links may have changed. CMS sites have a built-in page (Reports → Top 'page not found' errors) that shows a list of URLs that users are visiting that result in Not Found being shown.
CMS updates
Will be live on sites FMarch 10, 2026:
- Autoplay Video
- Ability to add a short autoplay video background through the Display Banner component.
- Centering Section Headings
- Ability to center section headings. This can be done by navigating to the Advanced settings under the Layout settings and adding the .dcf-txt-center class.
- Accessibility:
- Breadcrumbs are set to display: none when Hero/Page Title is hidden.
- Component IDs
- Add unique IDs to the wrapper <div> of all custom components on a page to enable anchor linking.
- Icon Showcase Picker
- Incorrect names were assigned to some icons in the Icon Factory used by the Icon Link component, and have now been corrected
- Drupal 11 Upgrade Progress
- Updating contributed and custom modules to the latest versions.
- Auto-login
- Certain sites are requesting auto-login to access published content.
- UNL Bulk File Remover Custom Module
- Batch processing added.
Pending review and deployment
Public Information Apps updates
- GoURL – URL max length increased from 1000 to 2048
Framework updates
Version 6.0.10 scheduled for deployment this afternoon, Tuesday, March 12.
- Fix load stylesheets
- Fix non-modal dialog double close
- Fix toggle button and popups closing logic
- Reduce popup arrow/point overlap with popup
- Increase Skip Navigation z-index
- Update keyboard navigation and focus related to the navigation menu dialog
- Replace stagger animations Sass loop with sibling-index()