University Web Services <web(a)sandiego.edu>
Thu, Dec 7, 2017, 1:04 PM
to cmsusers
Hello Cascade users,
We will be launching a new website for the School of Engineering on the
afternoon of Wednesday, December 5. As part of this process, we will not be
able to load other redirects into the system until the launch is complete.
If you have any redirect requests you planned on submitting, please do
so *before 2
p.m. **today* via our web form and we will create them before our launch
process begins. *All redirect requests submitted after 2
p.m. today (Monday, December 3) will be implemented beginning Thursday of
this week. *
http://www.sandiego.edu/web-request
Thank you,
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*University Web Services*
University of San Diego
5998 Alcalá Park
San Diego, CA 92110
www.sandiego.edu/web
Good morning, Cascade web maintainers,
A new version of Cascade CMS was released to us today, version 8.11. We
apologize that we didn't send out a notice before the upgrade took place,
as we normally do. But the upgrade went smoothly but there are now a few
changes and new features that we want to bring to your attention.
The "Save & Preview" button is now just "*Preview Draft*", but it
accomplishes the same thing as before: it let's you preview your work,
saves it as a draft, and then you still have the option to submit your
changes to workflow. Here is what it looks like now. It is just a simple
name change.
[image: Screen Shot 2018-11-08 at 7.47.57 AM.png]
Second, you can now add words to your *Cascade dictionary*. Original
Cascade users from a few years back may remember this feature, but it
disappeared for several versions. Well it's back! This dictionary is custom
to your unique user account, so feel free to add any common words you
encounter in the spell check all the time, such as acronyms unique to our
university, people's names, etc. It will ensure those words and acronyms no
longer pester in the spell checker you each time you try to save your
content. Here is what you will now see.
[image: Screen Shot 2018-11-08 at 7.50.31 AM.png]
Last, the *accessibility check* for tables in the above screenshot is now
more user friendly as well. If you have one or multiple *tables *on a page
that are* missing their summaries* (captions), the accessibility check has
always prompted you to enter the captions before submitting to workflow.
But now there is a link for each table titled "View Non-Compliant Content"
that if you click will show the offending table.
Please note that it will show the HTML code of the table and you cannot
edit the content there, but if you visually scan the code you will see the
content you entered into your table, allowing you to quickly identify which
table needs a caption without having to guess or go back into edit mode on
your page. Then simply click "Fix" and enter an appropriate and descriptive
summary of your table's contents. Here is what you will now see.
[image: table.jpg]
If you have any questions or issues regarding these new features, please
submit a web request at www.sandiego.edu/web-requests. Thank you!
In order to provide you with the best support, please contact us using our
web request form at: www.sandiego.edu/web-requests
Thank you,
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*University Web Services*
University of San Diego
5998 Alcalá Park
San Diego, CA 92110
www.sandiego.edu/web
