WCMS 3 is here!
95% of the WCMS 2 sites have migrated and are live on WCMS 3! All new sites sites will be created in WCMS 3. Remaining sites are still in progress and hope to be ready for WCMS 3 by the end of 2024.
Your next steps:
- Complete the WCMS 3 courses via LEARN
- Review our WCMS 3 training and support options
- Bookmark our WCMS Knowledge Base on Confluence for access to WCMS 3 how-to documents
- Visit our own WCMS help portal for support options
- Keep up to date with WCMS 3 development, including what is and isn't available in WCMS 3, known issues, recent and upcoming release information
Blog
Building a custom search using webform
Learn how to create your own search forms, from basic to fancy.
Sending notifications to Teams via Power Automate/Workflows when forms receive submissions
WCMS 2 had a dedicated option to send limited notifications to Microsoft Teams, but that doesn't exist at the moment in WCMS 3. Did you know that you don't need to wait on this for webform submission notifications? You can use the tools that already exist, with the help of Power Automate/Workflows - and they're even more flexible than before!
Continuous adaptation: The WCMS 3 migration project from the perspective of returning co-op students
Three co-op students who have been with the WCMS team for multiple terms comment on their perspective of the migration project and it's evolution
News
Planned maintenance - April 12
Pantheon, the cloud-based hosting service for WCMS 3 websites, will be conducting maintenance on both live sites and pre-production (i.e., staging) sites.
WCMS 3 training available through LEARN
The Waterloo Content Management System (WCMS) 3 training course, WCMS 3 Essentials and WCMS 3 Web Forms, are available through LEARN.
WCMS update for July 2022
A summary WCMS update in lieu of the July Web Advisory Committee meeting.