Oct 21 Open Lab Notes: Project & WDS Updates, Glitch List, & Duplicate Pages
What We Are Working on
Projects Websites
- wsu.edu: The new wsu.edu website is wrapping up the comments period. Feedback has been very good. There are a few minor changes to make.
- pullman.wsu.edu: The new pullman.wsu.edu website will launch with wsu.edu. The first iteration of this website will be the Pullman-specific information from the current wsu.edu website in order to have this content available when the new wsu.edu launches.
- admissions.wsu.edu: Updated content, navigation, and design for admissions.wsu.edu.
Web Design System
- Developer Settings: The Additional Advanced Settings will be relabeled as Developer Settings. A toggle will be in Advanced to display or hide these developer settings.
Project Lead: Danial Bleile - New Menu Type: A combination menu option of horizontal and vertical menus to help larger websites like campus sites and large college websites like CAHNRS and College of Medicine.
Project Lead: Matt Davis - Horizontal option added to the Card Block: Like the current Card block which is vertical, this one will add horizontal display options to display the image on the left or right and image sizes of 25%, 33%, or 50% of the column.
Project Lead: Matt Davis - Overlap Block: A block to overlap content on an image, either on the left or right side of the image or on the bottom of the image.
Project Lead: Matt Davis
Projects
- People Directory: This is a two-part update.
- The first part is integrating more functionality for a people directory within a website. This will include syncing with the people in the People Directory, being able to add non-WSU people to a website, and making updates to people’s profiles locally (within a website) that are not reflected back to the People Directory or the displays of people on other websites.
- The second part is making the People Directory a central repository for people and connecting it up to the information in Work Day. Project Lead: Dan White
Glitch List
- People Directory (people.wsu.edu): Adding people is case-sensitive. Please use all lowercase letters when adding someone to the site.
Use: butch.cougar
Don’t Use: Butch.Cougar
Glitch Status: Patience, we’re getting right to it. Submit a web support ticket for general help if you think you have a duplicate profile. - People Block: People are encountering an error when editing a page with a People block on it. UGH! Please use Safari, FireFox, or Chrome in incognito. If you run into problems with editing the page try clearing their cache in Chrome.
Glitch Status: Ugh! We are working on it.
Byte Size Tutorial
- Searching for Duplicate Pages: Pages with -2 in the URL slug means there is or was a page with the same URL slug. Use Export All URLs plugin to find these pages.
Resources
- Wayback Machine: A handy website of archive versions of websites. Search for versions of websites with the URL and the Wayback Machine will show instances of when the webpage was captured.