Web Publishing News

Flickr Slideshow Gallery option

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:33:00 PST

A new display option is available for the Flickr Slideshow Element, which will display the Flickr images as a gallery with sharing options and image descriptions. Select the "gallery" display mode in the Flickr Slideshow element, which you'll find in the Content Well element category.

IE 10 and Commonspot

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:24:00 PST

Microsoft is automatically updating Internet Explorer for Windows 7 users from version 9 to version 10 today. IE 10 has not been certified for Commonspot authoring, and access to the authoring dashboard will fail. Paperthin is working on a patch for this, but for the interim you'll need to use Firefox for Commonspot authoring on Windows. Alternatively, you can use the developer tools built into IE to switch to the IE 9 profile. You can access the developer tools via the F12 key.

Firefox ESR auto-update

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:59:00 PST

Firefox 10 ESR will update to version 17, unless you have turned off auto-updating in Firefox. Version 17 may introduce problems with copying/pasting text in the Commonspot text editor. If you need to re-install FF 10 ESR, you can find it here:

Windows

Mac

You can change how Firefox handles auto-updating via the Options (Windows) or Preferences (Mac) > Advanced tab. By default, it would be set to automatically install updates.

Video shortcodes in the blog

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian) — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:06:00 PST

The option to include a Vimeo or Youtube video in the blog's text block is now available in the SCM blog. To embed a video, you'd use a shortcode similar to those used in Wordpress.

Accordion theme added to Blog element

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:03:00 PST

Another new theme has been added to the Blog element to display a list of blog posts using the 'accordion' theme. To use this, edit the Theme setting for your blog and update the Custom Properties for the page to use jQuery (that's in the Settings section of the Custom Properties form).

Clear cached pages on www

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:00:00 PST

Site administrators can now clear subsite cache on each of the www production servers using this new form: http://cms.scu.edu/clearcache. If your Commonspot ID does not allow you to access this form, or your subsites are not listed, please contact Russ or Brian.

HTML Email theme added to Blog element

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:04:00 PST

You can now include blog posts in the HTML Email template by setting the blog theme to "HTML Email". This setting will depend on your blog being configured to group blog posts by publication. This theme will display any featured blog post in the publication, or the most recent blog post as a main feature, with the remaining posts listed below.

Mailto links post-Groupwise

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:38:00 PST

You may notice some links to email addresses (those using the mailto: prefix) using Groupwise as the default email client in your web browser. Here are instructions for changing this to use GMail: http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10966

Survey start and end dates and times

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:43:00 PST

The survey form can now be configured to set a start and end time along with the date.

Lightbox Display

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian) — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:43:00 PST

A new element has been added to the Content Well category which can be used to add a Lightbox display view to content linked from a Commonspot page. To use this element, add the “lightbox” style class to any element that contains links to content you want displayed in this manner, and then add and configure the Lightbox Display element on that page.

Flickr Gallery

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian) — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 11:42:00 PST

The blog system now includes the capability of displaying video hosted on Vimeo and image sets on Flickr. To include either, use the New Blog Post form and add the Vimeo or Flickr set URL to the Images/Media section.

Commonspot 6 and Firefox

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:10:16 PST

The new version of Commonspot is not compatible with Firefox 11. If you are encountering bugs when using FIrefox 11 in a Commonspot authoring session, we recommend installing Firefox 10 ESR. This version of Firefox will be compatible with the current and future releases of Commonspot.

Replication schedule - another update

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:05:35 PST

The hourly schedule for replication has been revised again. Here's where it stands now:

Replication starts on the hour, between 6am and 8pm.

Replication packets are applied on the www servers between 10 and 15 minutes past the hour.

So when your content is published on the authoring server, expect to see it on the www servers by 15 minutes past the next hour.

Replication schedule updated

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:09:51 PST

We're now running on the same schedule that was in place prior to the Commonspot 6 upgrade. It runs daily on an hourly schedule starting at 6 am and ending at 8 pm.

Commonspot 6 service pack installed

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:25:00 PST

Our Commonspot installation was updated on Tuesday morning. This package included a number of bug fixes, and enabled support for Firefox 10 ESR. This "extended support release" for Firefox is the version that will be supported in Commonspot for the next year, and will be maintained in a stable state by Mozilla.

Other versions of Firefox will update automatically, and will likely have conflicts with Commonspot's authoring interface. If you're using Firefox for Commonspot authoring, we recommend installing Firefox 10 ESR.

Commonspot authoring offline on Monday March 26 at 5pm

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:05:58 PST

We will begin preparing the servers for the Coldfusion 9 and Commonspot 6 upgrade beginning at 5pm on Monday, March 26th. At that time, authoring access to the cms server will be turned off, and we will run a final replication to the www servers. Authoring will be re-enabled during the day on Tuesday, when all four of the staging and production servers have been upgraded. Plan ahead! If you have anything that needs to be online on Tuesday, make sure you have that published before 5pm on Monday.

Linkedin and Google +1 sharing

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:22:00 PST

We've added two new widgets to the Page Tools element gallery categor; a Linkedin Share button, and a Google +1 button. You can use these on any page or template - if you're using the blog system and have configured your blog to use the "Share This" buttons, these two new options will be included automatically.

Commonspot upgrade scheduled for March 27

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:09:00 PST

The long-awaited upgrade to Commonspot 6 will be happening on Tuesday, March 27. In advance of this change, please review the Introduction to Commonspot 6 web site.

Picasa Slideshow Element

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:28:00 PST

A new element has been added to the Content Well element gallery category. If you have public images in a Picasa album, you can use this element to display the album as a slideshow in a Commonspot page.

A few Commonspot blog updates

bwashburn@scu.edu (Brian Washburn) — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:21:00 PST

The interface to the Commonspot Blog Manager has been updated, allowing for more space to display the text editor. The editor's toolbar includes a few more options (indent/outdent/table), and the summary text field will display the character count when entering text.