Impact of CMS Upgrade on July 21st

On Thursday morning, July 21, ICIT will be conducting an upgrade to the WebCMS that will correct some issues and incorporate new features. The following is a list of changes that will be put into effect with this update:

Updates and corrections to existing features:

• RSS, News, Events, Seminars and Announcements portlets will have an optional title field which overrides the default. 
• Titles of the Collection portlets will be optional, instead of mandatory. 
• Collection portlets will have a new "summary view" available when editing a collection portlet. This view provides a display of items similar to the "summary view" for a folder and will include the image of news items in the output.
• Three new page display options will be added: "without title", "without description" and "content only". The new views are available on the page content type only. You can change a page's view with the "display" drop-down button in the green toolbar when viewing a page in the administrative interface. 
• Display of text elements when editing body content in the WebCMS will be presented in a standardized way. For example, static text portlets will show text styling (shading and description of semantic styling) during editing the same way that styles are shown when editing a page content type.
• Correct an issue with superlinks rendering as a link to the superlink content object when shown in a folder listing and as a link to the superlink's target when in navigation. SuperLinks will now always link to their target, except when viewing the "Contents" tab for a folder. This will result in a change to the folder views called "standard view", "tabular view" and "summary view", as well as the view for collections (including the collection portlet).  
• Correct the broken image seen when attempting to insert an image while editing a page using the "original" size.
  

New features:

• Two new portlet areas are being added - one above and one below the main content area. These new portlet areas will allow the placement of portlets in the center content area in addition to the existing portlet columns. These portlet areas will be functionally equivalent to the sidebar portlet areas regarding portlet inheritance (apply at the folder level and everything inside of the folder will have it applied as well). In addition, up to three portlet columns can be displayed across the top or bottom of the main content area. If you place portlets in only one of the three columns, portlets will stretch to fill the width of the content area. Adding portlets in two or three columns will cause them to divide up the layout space by half or thirds, respectively.
• A slideshow product is being integrated in the WebCMS, which provides new content objects and a new portlet. A slideshow-folder content type in a site's pressroom will contain the slide objects. Each slide object will have a title and image with optional description and link (internal or external). The slideshow portlet can be added to any of the portlet areas and must be set to target the previously-created slideshow folder.
  
  NOTE: The slideshow feature is being added for future themes, so the appearance of the slideshow portlet has not been tested in existing themes (Hunter Default and Clean and Simple). Display oddities and text styling issues may occur if used in existing themes within the WebCMS.