March 2023 Meeting Notes

Governance Board update

• Discussion of Drupal 10 timeline - Read more in The Cache

Slacktivity

• Timeline example
• Form submissions on splash pages are not possible (it was turned off, as it was being exploited by post requests to hobble sites. webforms can be created on any other pages of a site).

Analytics Group

Upcoming priorities

• Tracking across framework vs. tracking on individual subdomains - avoid conflicts
• A/B tests
• Explore alternative JavaScript loading strategies
• Review framework analytics JavaScript, accounting for all events
• Custom Dimensions and Explore > Reports in GA4
• Supplementing analytics data with Motomo, especially historical data
• Reminder - Universal Analytics is going away July 1, 2023. Prepare now by setting up and switching over to a GA4 property

WebAudit Metrics

• https://webaudit.unl.edu/groups/unl/

Framework updates

• No updates this month

UNL Events updates

• Target audiences for events - Faculty, Staff, Students
  • Filtering for audience and event type in calendar search
  • Audience pages that pull from all calendars
  • Event type pages that pull from all calendars

UNLcms Updates

• Diff not working - fixed

Drupal 10 Timeline

• February: First Site in Production
• March: Components, roles and permissions
• April: Closed beta to Gov Board Members
• May: Master pages
• June: Open Availability
• Beginning Summer: Friday Open House sessions
• August 2024: Projected sunset of Drupal 7 at UNL