Enhancement Requests

Original ticket submission below

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Who is this for: Myself
Department: Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences – Dean’s Office
Location:

What would you like to do:Request Something New (accounts, equipment, supplies, services, etc.)
Request Type: Websites
Other: Yes
Description:Mark / Highlight feature in the WordPress WYSIWG editor
Additional Details:Request to add a highlight into the WordPress editor – for the Barber development websites in the Transition project that will be cloned for major updates:
1. Faculty of Science Website: science.ok.ubc.ca*
2. Faculty of Science Intranet: science.intranet.ok.ubc.ca*
3. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Website: fass.ok.ubc.ca*
4. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Intranet: fass.intranet.ok.ubc.ca*
5. CCGS Department Website: ccgs.ok.ubc.ca/
6. Biology Department Website: biology.ok.ubc.ca
7. Chemistry Department Website: chemistry.ok.ubc.ca
8. Psychology Department Website: psych.ok.ubc.ca
9. CMPS Department Website Department Website: cmps.ok.ubc.ca
10. History & Sociology Department Website: hs.ok.ubc.ca
11. EEGS Department Website: eegs.ok.ubc.ca
12. EPP Department Website: epp.ok.ubc.ca
*proposed domain names

Could this be a style in “Formats > Text Style “? I currently use text but there are others working on the sites and it’s more time consuming to search in the source code when we get into larger blocks of content.

A sample is here: https://sciences.cms.ok.ubc.ca/programs/general-bsc/

This will help us with our work, being able to update or flag content that will need to be revisited. All the highlights would be removed prior to go-live.

[Update: Requested recently, but has been prioritized by IT web team to help IKBSAS in advance of the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Science split. Several websites under the Barber school need to be audited, reviewed, and edited to make sure content is ready ahead of the formal split in July 2020. JS started on working proof of concept started in dev site. JE exploring a plugin that is activated by IT while sites are under development, then deactivated after site launch. Status changed to Active. -SQ]

[Update 2: JE learned there is an existing ‘Mark’ ability in TinyMCE Advanced plugin that we already have installed in the UBCO CMS. Instead of custom development, web team will simply activate/deactivate TinyMCE Advanced upon request. JS dropping development on custom highlighter. Marked complete. -SQ]

Mega Box Component – Combines the following enhancement requests

• Restyle CLF Alerts and Wells 
• Add callout CSS to “Formats” section of TinyMCE
• Background Colour Text Boxes

[Update: RL met with IT web team to review new CLF design elements. Updated date to Q2 due to COVID and various UBCO CMS outages/interruptions in March 2020 ]

[Update 2: No wells. New ‘Mega box’ component will combine other enhancement requests:

• Background Color Text Boxes
• Restyle CLF Alerts and Wells]

[Update 3: JE developing new alerts/’Mega Box’ component ]

[Update 4: UR has sent preview document of Mega Box component to Webcore email list. To be discussed at May 2020 Webcore meeting. -SQ ]

[Update 5: Mega Box component now available. Pushed to production early June 2020]

New feature/style for the photo bar component to take 3 pictures and to display it in a 3 column container.

First reported by Meghan Reid, IKBSAS.

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Some components were not passing alt tags through the source code despite it being properly entered for the image in the media library, therefore wouldn’t be read out by a screen reader.

[Update:] Webteam has identified there were only 2 areas affected in Faculty/dept theme: 1) section background images and 2) photo bar. -JE

[Update 2:] IT has retrofitted master ACF fields and pulled to production for all faculty/dept theme sites. -JE

Note: If users have entered alt tags on their images, it will now display them in source code/read out by screen readers. If there isn’t an alt tag entered, it will add an empty alt attribute, which is still good for accessibility scanners/robots. No further action required for communicators, but web team continues to strongly recommends communicators to add alt tags to their images -SQ

Working with the Disability Resource Centre, the IT web team has added three ‘skip links’ to the Faculty/dept theme. As per CNIB website http://cnib.ca/en?region=bc.

Intended for blind and visually impaired users, skip links are anchor links that allow users using screen readers to ‘skip’ to major areas of a webpage faster. Skip links are not immediately visible on-page for sighted users. They are detected and read aloud upon page load by screen-reading software such as JAWS, Kurzweil, and Read/Write. The three skip links now available are:

– Skip to main content
– Skip to the main navigation
– Skip to the page-level navigation

[UPDATE Aug 16: SQ + DRC have added 3 additional skip links valuable to UBCO students with disabilities. Making 6 total skip links on every page of every website using UBCO CMS Faculty/dept theme.
– Go to Disability Resource Centre website
– GO to DRC Accomodations Portal
– Go to Inclusive Technology Lab Website]

More on Skip Links here – https://webaim.org/techniques/skipnav/

Based on original UBC CLF Tabs, screen readers could only detect and read-aloud the contents of the first ‘active’ tab on the UBCO Tabs Component. Additionally, the

[SQ investigated alternative technique to visually hide the unopened ‘inactive’ tabs and visually show ‘active’ tabs, but have screen reading tools respect the markup and read the content inside]

[Update Aug 16 – Tabs component has been fixed in production. Screen readers now read each tab in proper order – label 1, content 1 – label 2, content 2, – label 3, content 3. -SQ ]

[Update Aug 16 – Tabs component now also can be navigated to by pseudo::focus and opened using keyboard tabbing and return/enter key. – SQ]

Add Skip Links to OKmain theme header.php and CSS

Customer Submission:

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“Add an attachment field to this form – Enhancement Request Form

Can we add the option to add an attachment. It would be easier to mark up screenshots at times to explain the request.”

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Done 🙂

PDF, JPG, or PNG only. Max 3 uploads. Any uploaded media will be held in the submitted form entry itself and added manually to public enhancement request listing if useful for illustrative purposes.

Each time we setup a single line callout, we have to add some custom CSS to make it look right. I want to add the required CSS to the Formats dropdown in TinyMCE. Something like this:

.callout{
text-align: center;
margin-bottom: 0;
}

[Update: Feasible – ‘Single Line Callout’. Some exploration with UR has happened for potential of additional ‘alerts’ formats. -SQ]

[Update 2: Low priority, low value. ETA updated to Q1 2020 -SQ]

[Update 3: RL met with IT web team to review new CLF design elements. Updated date to Q2 due to COVID and various UBCO CMS outages/interruptions in March 2020 ]

[Update 4: No wells. New ‘Mega box’ component will combine other enhancement requests:

• Add callout CSS to “Formats” section of TinyMCE
• Background Color Text Boxes
• Restyle CLF Alerts and Wells]

[Update 5: JE developing new alerts/’Mega Box’ component ]
[Update 6: This is a separate enhancement and will be worked on separate from the Mega, Shadow, and Alert boxes]

A standard style for degree program credentials that can be applied to basic paragraph text using a TinyMCE text format.

[Update: SQ worked with UR for initial styling. Working CSS and format in SQ dev site. Styling awaiting approval from UR.]

[Update 2: Randy reconsidering this text format. Might be sentence case h1 format instead to be added to the main body content area on a No Title Template]

[Update 3: Randy approved Format style. Solution will be to add custom menus for grad and undergrad program pages to manually add program credential to the menus]

[Update 4: SQ pulled code into production. Style and format are now available for all faculty/dept sites.]

Add Instagram to the social media icons/links in the Central Directory. I have had faculty members submitting requests to add Instagram in FASS, thanks!

Add faculty/staff ‘Office Location’ to directory listing (contact page).

Due to potentially inconsistent entry of this field values, the ideal location is end of the line after phone numbers.

From Meghan:
Students have come into the IKBSAS Dean’s office to ask the office number for faculty members. In some instances they have been waiting to speak to a Student Support Assistant for quite some time in our office to find out and office location for a faculty member so that they can speak with them in person. This is causing more students waiting to talk to staff in our office for a minor detail and is frustrating for our assistants and support staff.

The students find the contact directories on the department websites (for example: https://cmps.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/) however, haven’t realized that the faculty a members name can be clicked on for further details

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[Update: Basic proof of concept has been started in dev site. Would need review from UR. Side effect is that it will make directory listings longer overall. -JS/SQ]

[Update 2: Positive feedback from Nov 2019 Webcore meeting. Development to continue. Can proceed to be added to next update of directory plugin.]

[Update 3: Tested in verf and pulled into production Dec 9, 2019. Marked completed. -JS]

Add additional attributes to filter and display faculty profiles who are currently accepting graduate supervision requests based on their department or courses, etc.

Request to allow for more than one category for directory members. For example a directory member should be allowed to be both the faculty category and the staff category.

Add UBC CLF Table classes to the TinyMCE Table properties.

‘Boxed content layouts’ with options for different background colors. Each item’s height should be the same height as its tallest sibling.

[Update: Likely a new component in ACF. Might not be as simple as a WYSIWIG Format. More exploration needed. -SQ ]

[Update 2: RL met with IT web team to review new CLF design elements. Updated date to Q2 due to COVID and various UBCO CMS outages/interruptions in March 2020 ]

[Update 3: No wells. New ‘Mega box’ component will combine other enhancement requests:

• Background Color Text Boxes
• Restyle CLF Alerts and Wells]

[Update 4: JE developing new alerts/’Mega Box’ component ]

[Update 5: Mega Box component now available. Pushed to production early June 2020]

The backside currently doesn’t have a Standard Text Editor (WYSIWYG/rich text editor) field. It needs one, just like the backside of the fancy/numbered flip cards.

[SQ has begun testing in CMS dev sandbox. Switching Text Area field to a WYSIWYG TinyMCE editor does NOT delete any existing content, which is good. Additionally, any HTML content that was previously added in the basic (non-WYSIWYG) editor is successfully carried over into the WYSIWYG TinyMCE editor. ]

[SQ to continue tests in verf, will add to ACF Master when ready.]

[Changes pulled to production Apr 10. Visual editor now available on all Faculty/Department theme sites.]

Styles missing on Faculty/Dept theme for Comments fields. Note: this is not an issue of CLF 7 Basic sites in UBCO CMS.

Solution: Copy missing comments-related CSS from CLF Basic to main Fac/Dept stylesheet.

[Update: SQ pulled code into production. Comments now displaying properly on all sites.]

We would like the ability to clone a page from one site to another. This would allow us to have consistent design components on new pages without having to start from scratch.

Right now, when using headings (h1,h2,h3, etc) within Tabs and Accordions components, items that begin with a heading have significant (25px+) top margins. This makes it look inconsistent with other Tab/Accordion items that start with a paragraph.

It is particularly noticeable between tabs because the first line displays at the same level.

Solution: override margin-top using CSS :first-child pseudo selector

The IKBSAS communications office has received feedback from all eight departments, associate deans and students that directory is difficult to use. Some users don’t realize that the drop-down menus are clickable.

The dropdown menus for Role, Disciplines and Search Keyword are grey. This colour suggests that a feature is inactive as a UX standard. Our request is to make the drop-down menus be more prominent. Currently, the titles above the drop-down menus draw more attention than the menus below where we want the user to interact.

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Original Submission:

“Styling Change on the Directory

See: https://biology.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/ for an example.

The IKBSAS communications office has received feedback from all eight departments, associate deans and students that directory is difficult to use. Some users don’t realize that the drop down menus are clickable.

The dropdown menus for Role, Disciplines and Search Keyword are grey. This colour suggests that a feature is inactive as a UX standard. Our request is to make the drop down menus be more prominent. Currently the titles above the drop down menus draw more attention than the menus below where we want the user to interact.”

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[Styling change affecting all sites using directory. Some consultation with UR needed, but easy fix. -SQ]

[Update 2: No issues at November Webcore meeting. Changed to active. -SQ ]

[Update 3: Minor tweaks added to Central Directory filters. Available for live review/validation.  -SQ

• Labels made small, bold, all caps to make filters more prominent
• Filter selector options made taller
• Selector border outline darker
• Added Whitney font to filter display
• Adjusted line heights
• Adjusted padding
• Research Interests and Courses/Teaching font made smaller
• Made name and email links underlined to make it more obvious they are active clickable links]

[Update 4: Styling adjustments above viewed and approved by UR (Randy) and original requestor (Meghan Reid) in Central Directory -SQ]

[Update 5: Directory plugin CSS pulled into production Dec 9. Enhancement marked completed -SQ]

Originally developed for main UBCO website Okanagan Stories, it is no longer being used. Component is impractical and can only be used with a very small amount of text. Rarely used.

[SQ has removed component from demo site as requested by RL so it is no longer demonstrated as an active component]

[IT needs to investigate potential impacts(s), safe removal of an existing component]

[SQ added project to enhancements list to encourage discussion in Webcore prior to proceeding with removal]

[Update: No opposition in Nov 2019 webcore meeting. Partial proof of concept started in dev. Relies on method of injecting a unique class into WordPress admin section where ACF selector can be hidden via CSS. Status changed to active. -SQ]

[Update May 28 2020: – This component has now been decommissioned and is no longer part of the CMS.]

Cross Appointment Warning for faculty/staff who are in multiple websites/departments and may have conflict with content between different sites.

SQ currently testing a plugin that allows you to duplicate any existing field in ACF. The benefit is saving users time and confusion with drafting new page sections.

Users will not have to recreate entire page sections/columns sections/components and then copy-and-paste the content between fields if they want to experiment with a new version of the same content section.

[Update: ACF Duplicate Repeater plugin being tested in SQ dev environment]

[Update 2: SQ showed sneak peek to Meghan Reid and Randy Lievers at drop in. Feature is very well received. Idea to show it at a future Webcore meeting.]

[Update 3: Major update to add on. 2.0.1. Nedd to test for latest update.]

[Update 4: Testing to moving to verf. Plugin to be activated on a per-site basis. Considering a pilot site candidate for production.]

[Update 5: Plugin now in production. Can be activated on request on a per-site basis. To get this feature, please submit an IT helpdesk ticket.]

Add categories and other useful columns to the media library in WordPress.

[Update 1:3/07/2019 – Plugin is installed on the Production environment]

[Update 2:3/26/2019 – the new AVP Students website is piloting the plugin]

We need to have our departments as an option to filter on the Contacts & People page, same as you can filter Faculty or Staff or Leadership.

this is VERY important as we cannot currently filter just the people who teach English for example, as the Department is called English and Cultural Studies.

I note that this is needed for other departments in IKBSAS as indicated by Annalisa.

https://fccs.cms.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/

[Update: JE worked with stakeholders on enhancement request. JE completed updates to plugin Mar 19.]

[Update 2: SQ reviewed in verf for bugs Mar 20. SQ fixed javascript bug for search Mar 20.]

[Update 3: SQ contacted affected customers before pulling to prod Mar 21]

[Update 4: Pulled into production Mar 26]

Can we have flip cards that do not have the large numbers on them, I have some on this page, and the numbers are distracting and do not make sense for this content
https://fccs.cms.ok.ubc.ca/research-creation/

Original Request via Enhancement Request Form:

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“A component for one ‘story tile’ in a row for use on pages with a left-side menu.

See this page as and example:
https://eegs.ok.ubc.ca/undergraduate/gisc-minor/ where we only have one Our Story.

It would be best to keep consistent with the style used on the other pages in the Meet your Peers and Profs section:
https://eegs.ok.ubc.ca/undergraduate/earth-environmental-sciences/

Note: We will have some our stories for the IGS themes coming in the near future, where we will have only one Our Story because the programs are new and story options limited.”

[Update: Item was missed in Feb 2020 Webcore meeting. Can be tabled for next scheduled Webcore. -SQ]

[Released Feb. 2022 ]

[Update 10/21/2021 YY: Work in progress. I had some emails exchange with Meghan Reid. She expressed that it is difficult to come up with a standard language that would work for all. We agreed that a text input box is needed for flexibility. ]

[Update March 2021: Meghan Reid still to discuss with communicators for ideal wording that covers multiple conditions and/or if it’s multiple labels, one and other or both, etc…]

[Update Summer 2020: 2nd revision to this label. Decision impacts all sites using directory. Needs more discussion with UR and Webcore. Preference for exact wording of labels to be settled before IT starts any development. Meghan Reid to discuss with other communicators. ]

Original Submission:

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“Graduate Student Supervisor Label

The wording of the label was previously changed from “Accepting Graduate Students” to “Graduate Student Supervisor”. The function of the label stayed the same and it isn’t working for IKBSAS faculty. It’s required that a faculty member be identified as a Graduate Student Supervisor, however they may or may not be accepting students. The result is Professors who are Supervisors but not accepting students are receiving many requests from potential students because the current label doesn’t distinguish.

The label is causing confusion and has been identified in multiple requests to the IKBSAS Communications Office from IGS, CCGS and psychology departments. Professors with the tag are being contacted when they are not accepting new students. The challenge with removing the tag is that they still need to be identified as a Graduate Student Supervisor as part of their role and position.

Our suggested revision is to have two tags available to select:
Graduate Student Supervisor: Accepting Students
Graduate Student Supervisor: Not Accepting Students or Not Accepting Students for 2020/21 (wording to be discussed with WebCore Group)

Currently we’ve addressed this on the psychology website by manually typing into the Research Areas” section “Not accepting graduate students for 2020-21.” so that the information shows at the top below label. The information shouldn’t fall under the research areas heading though as it’s not the right fit.

Note, this feature is what populates the list of names in the supervisors tab on most graduate program pages (there are some sites or programs that have a static listing, for example psychology). The dynamic function on the graduate program pages should also be considered.”

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If a faculty or school doesnt have any grad students, we should be able to hide the Graduate Student button, or any other buttons.

An addition to the Story Tiles Component with which you can centre align the title text and description.

Posts syndicated from news.ok.ubc.ca do not currently bring in the featured images. Featured images then need to be added in the local copy on the receiving site.

IT exploring ways to automatically import feature image along with rest of post.

Problem and potential solutions are fairly complex, involving multiple plugins.

Original submission

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“Remove thumbnails on the post pages where there is no image available. Expand the content to full width so that it is left aligned. Currently, there is a blank space to the left of the image.

https://ikbsas-intranet.ok.ubc.ca/category/notifications/deans-office/
https://ikbsas-intranet.ok.ubc.ca/category/notifications/campus/

A potential solution is, where there is no featured image, we will expand the title and excerpt to be full-width and avoid the featured image slot white space.”

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[Update: Likely requires template overrides for CLF basic archive loop – eg: add if statement to add .span12 if featured image empty. Similar to the News Page template. -SQ]

[Update 2: Basic proof of concept has been started in dev site. -JS]

[Update 3: More testing needed. Updated date to Q1 2020 -SQ]

[Update 4: JS pulled into live production Feb 14 2020. SQ updated completion date.]

Tweaks to CSS to improve line break amounts (aka leading) on items in left side page menus. Currently, long menu items that wrap to more than 1 line have an excessive amount of vertical space between lines.

[Update: JS pulled into production May 13. Now live on all sites with Faculty/Dept theme]

Increased the spacing between the list items by adding a bottom margin of 8px.

[Update: JS pulled code into production May 13. Now live on all faculty/dept theme sites.]

Option for a Light Blue Mega Button. Would be useful if using 6 or more mega buttons in a grid.

The three current mega buttons are quite heavy blue (UBC primary, secondary and ‘bright’ blue). A collection of light blue mega buttons would not look as heavy together on a page.

[Update: SQ pulled to prod Feb 14 and added example to CMS Demo site]

[Update 2: Initial light blue a little too light. SQ made shade slightly darker Mar 6]

Make all links underlined links by default in non-light (BG Image, Primary Blue, Secondary Blue, Bright Blue) background colour page sections. Currently all links (including email addresses) in OKmain theme and Faculty/dept themes are not underlined, which is an override of the standard CLF behaviour from OKmain development.

Underlining links makes the links more evident in callouts and regular copy. Also restores an accessibility/UX best practice from the CLF.

Solution: restore ‘text-decoration: underline’ property for page sections targetting only Primary, Secondary, and Bright blue background colors. -SQ

[Update: SQ currently testing CSS in OKmain theme. Looking for any surprise conflicts or code collisions. ]

[Update 2: SQ added code to add underlines to flip card back text.]

[Update 3: SQ pulled CSS into verf environment. Testing all recently launched sites. So far so good.]

[Update 4: SQ pulled CSS into prod April 1. Enhancement is now live on OKmain and all sites using Faculty/Dept theme.]

Who is this for: Myself
Department: Irving K. Barber School of Arts & Sciences – Dean’s Office
Location:

What would you like to do: Request a Change to Existing Service
Request Type: Websites
Other: Yes
Description: WordPress Directory Faculty
Details: The title shows as Grants, however it needs to match up with what is in the CMS. It should be”Selected Grants & Awards”s.

See: https://eegs.cms.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/craig-nichol/ (these are all awards and the title says only Grants)

New flexible faculty and staff directory.

Enhancement request for the Contact page

On-Leave – could we have a date field included on the profile to say when they’ll be back from being on-leave

Original Submission

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“On leave – when there isn’t a return date

The feature is worded as”
On Leave Until: [exact date]

We are running into situations where someone is on leave and there is not return date. For example because of illness.

Requesting an adjustment to add an option that only states the the person is “On Leave””

[UPDATE: On leave toggle created in profile. It can now take ‘On leave with no return date’ and/or ‘On leave with a return date’ values. A label for (On Leave) is now appended to the employee’s name in the list as long as either condition is met. ‘Currently on leave’ is output if ‘On leave with no return date’ is turned on. -Dev YY, JS, SQ]

Add arrows to be permanently displayed on the Image slider component so users know that there is more than one image to view.

[Update: SQ testing a fix on OKmain site Image Slider component. ]

[Update 2: SQ pulled CSS into verf and prod for OKmain and Faculty/Dept themes. Fix is now live on all sites. April 1, 2019]

Currently there is no way to share a preview link of draft WordPress page on a live site with someone who doesn’t have an account for site. Can we consider installing a plug-in that allows this.

I googled a couple:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/public-post-preview/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-draftsforfriends/

The first looks more legit….30,000 installations. The second could be dicey.

-Randy

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[Update: WP Drafts for Friends rejected as it is posts-only.]

[Update 2: PPP being tested in verf environment.]

[Update 3: Showed tool to Randy at drop-in. May want to extend preview availability time to 5+ days instead of default 2 days. ]

[Update 4: SQ started draft documentation in CMS site.]

[Update 5: SQ pulled plugin into production. Plugin activated on in OK Main site. Randy to test before broader rollout. ]

[Plugin only activated per-site. IT/UR/Webcore may want to consider network-wide rollout?]

[Update 6: SQ Network Activated Public Post Preview. It is now available for all UBCO CMS websites and all themes.]

Original Request

Can we add a reCAPTCHA to the comments section on the blog posts? The spam comments are increasing rapidly.

[Update 1: Removed spam comments from education.ok.ubc.ca and added the Akismet API key to the site. Akismet is more effective at resisting spam than reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA also generally not accessible. -JS ]

[Update 2: Talked to Amanda, asked her to consider disabling the commenting feature on the education.ok.ubc.ca site. -JS]

[Update 3: Spam comments now being moved to the Spam folder directly by Akismet and will get deleted automatically after 15 days. -JS]

[Update 4: IT now reviewing other sites for post comment spam. Note; only websites with post comments enabled are affected. -JS/SQ ]

Better styling of the standard CLF alerts and wells. Adding them to the Formats.

https://clf.ubc.ca/design-specifications/components.html#alerts

[Update: styling tweaks to default CLF alerts to better suit UBCO Faculty/Dept theme ]

[Update 2: RL to provide IT reference designs and colors from another project by the UBCV brand team]

[Update 3: RL met with IT web team to review new CLF design elements. Updated date to Q2 due to COVID and various UBCO CMS outages/interruptions in March 2020 ]

[Update 4: No wells. New ‘Mega box’ component will combine other enhancement requests:

• Background Color Text Boxes
• Restyle CLF Alerts and Wells]

[Update 5: JE developing new alerts/’Mega Box’ component ]

[Update 5: Mega Box component now available. Pushed to production early June 2020]

Add functionality that will allow admins to upload media files (PDF, JPG., etc.) using existing file name that simply override the previous version of the file. https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-media-replace/

[Update: Plugin called Enable Media Replace is a popular and well-tested plugin. Plugin is already available as one of Vancouver’s sites.olt CMS.]

[Update 2: SQ testing in dev environment]

[Update 3: SQ has pulled the plugin into production. Piloting on cms.ok.ubc.ca and gradstudies.ok.ubc.ca. Plugin currently available upon request. Network activation under consideration.]

[Update 4: SQ has network activate Enable Media Replace plugin. This ability is now available on all UBCO CMS websites.]

General Area of Issue: website
Request to add a field in the central directory for the graduate student role for Thesis Title.

The current set-up means we have to add in the heading under a different section and use the text editor to code the heading: <h2>Thesis Title</h2>. Barber Comms is starting to train department admins to update the grad profiles and this will be easier for them to update without needing to code. The request comes from Janet Heisler in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences. Please see attached screenshot.
Campus: UBC Okanagan
Website: https://centraldirectory.cms.ok.ubc.ca/

From: “webadmin.ok@ubc.ca” <webadmin.ok@ubc.ca>
Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 2:56 PM
To: UBCO-OKIT UBC Okanagan Web Services <webadmin.ok@ubc.ca>, “Quilala, Steve” <steve.quilala@ubc.ca>, “Shaji, Jithin” <jshaji@mail.ubc.ca>, “Lievers, Randy” <randy.lievers@ubc.ca>, “Edwards, Jamie” <jamie.edwards@ubc.ca>
Subject: CMS Enhancement Request Submission

Have default bullets in TinyMCE editor be squares instead of circles. CLF and Faculty/Dept theme default output for bullets is square, but default preview in WordPress is circle.

[Update: Pulled to production Oct 2019]

Pre-made page templates with lorem ipsum available to be cloned to any site. Also entire websites setup with pre-determined structure and functionaltiy that can be cloned and used as a starting point for a website build.

New style option for story tiles component, no image background, white background, dark blue text, and dark blue border. (mockup provided)

Table content font-size has been decreased to 15px from the default 18px and the default table content line-height has been overwritten with the theme-wide line-height.

Audience Navigation needs to be fixed on mobile. It currently disappears on mobile.

Solution =
1) unhide audience menu at 768px media query
2) hide when menu is inactive (this is as per Steve’s lingo at the drop-in of March 6).

[Update: 100% CSS options are too limited. SQ researching possible jQuery solutions and/or rewriting PHP menus in theme. ]

[Update 2: Better solution developed of adding Audience Page Menu Items in primary menu, then adding .hidden-tablet and .hidden-desktop classes to each respective audience menu item. Idea emerged from a very productive brainstorm between IT and Student Services. This method is 100% GUI and does not require changes to header.php, jQuery, or any new CSS.]

[Update 3: IT will apply this retroactively on current sites using audience menus and will be made part of IT’s initial build steps for menu configuration for new Content Starter Packs.]

[Update 4: IT updated all live Faculty/dept theme sites using the audience menus/secondary menu in early July]

Please use the first name and last name for the URL of each directory member. For example:

This is how it currently functions:
http://mysite.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/username

Should function like this:
http://mysite.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/firstname-lastname

Display Whitney font for paragraphs, headings, lists, etc in the Standard Visual Editor for more accurate preview of content.