Please note that if WDS has customized your site (e.g. custom content types, theme, or other functionality), the improvements and fixes listed below may not be applicable.
Release Schedule
- Most Faculty, Lab, and Researcher sites: Thursday, August 15, 3:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
- Most Department, Program, and Center sites: Friday, August 16, 3:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
- Alternate day (if there's a need to reschedule): Monday, August 19, 3:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.
Release Highlights
Course Catalog List Block
Site Builder has always offered the ability to import and display a list of courses from a particular term (e.g., all the Math classes offered in Fall 2024, like what's shown on the Registrar's Course Offerings website). This is possible thanks to the Courses module, which supports importing courses into the Course A collection of fields that describe a specific type of content, like a news article, a person, or an event. Site admins can add additional content types by enabling optional modules. WDS can also create custom content types for a site. and displaying them with the Course Offerings List block.
This release provides the new Course Catalog List Block, offering the ability to display courses from the course catalog, which is similar to what's shown on the Undergraduate Announcement website and the Graduate School website. The course catalog doesn't have an association to a specific term, and can be useful if you want to showcase the list of permanent courses offered by your department.
The new block does not require a separate import process. Simply add and the block to a page, select what subjects to display, and you're done. This differs from the Course Offerings by Term List block (previously named Course Offerings List block) which requires you to first import the list of courses to display into the Course content type.
The Course Catalog List Block is available on sites that have the Courses module enabled.
All Changes
Access
- #2845: For sites using the access control A collection of features or functionality that can be enabled on sites. WDS has made several optional modules available to site administrators to enable on their site. For example, the "News" module enables the News content type and provide a News List Block for displaying news on a page. , fixed an issue where the site’s search results did not include private content, even if the user performing the search had access to view the content.
Content Management
- #2875: The content dashboard now includes the date each A individual item of content. For example, a page, a news article, and an event are all content items, which correspond to the Page, News, and Event content types, respectively. was originally created. This is displayed in the same column as the user who originally created the content.
Courses
- #39: It's now possible to display courses from the course catalog for one or more subjects via the new Course Catalog List Block. Courses shown in this block are those that may be offered, but are not associated with any specific term. This supplements the existing Course Offerings by Term List Block, which displays courses offered in a particular term.
Events
- #2844: Fixed styling issues with taxonomy terms displayed on the Events List - Conference Block.
- #2885: Fixed an issue where events from the previous day showed up in the External ICS Feed Block.
- #2891: Fixed an issue where a feed block source that was not working (due to an error on the source website) would prevent other feed block sources from being refreshed.
Media
- #2835: Bulk image and document uploads are now limited to 30 items per form submission. This was changed from unlimited to help prevent resource usage limits on the servers.
Miscellaneous
- #2727: Fixed an issue where the month from an Events Calendar Block placed on a page layout was wrongly added as a jump link to the jump link menu.
- #2849: The footer region of pages is now “pinned” to the bottom of the browser window, even if the main content area is not large enough to naturally push it that low.
- #2873: Fixed an issue where iframe embeds in the rich text editor did not allow some attributes, like “allowfullscreen”.
- #2874: Fixed an issue where tabbed block titles in a page's layout were incorrectly added to the its jump link menu.
- #2898: Fixed an issue in the News List Block, Posts List Block, and Events List Block where content items that were configured to redirect to an external source were not shown with a square instead of circle crop.
People
- #2883: Fixed an issue where a large gap would sometimes be displayed in People List Blocks configured with the “compact list” display style.