Attendance (36/82)
Donald Duff-McCracken (Chair), Melissa Holst (Secretary) Amanda Vos, Andre Gignac, Alexis Condotta, Bernice Ma, Caitlin Yu, Charlotte Armstrong, Chris Francis, Danielle Jeanneault, Derek Leung, Elizabeth Rogers, Elizabeth Kleisath, Elisabetta Paiano, Erica Clement-Goudy, Greg McIntyre, Greg Smith, George Choy, Harminder Phull, Herbert Balagtas, Israel Cefrin da Silva, Iva Badjari, Jen Konkle, Jessica Barch, Joe Kwan, Kevin Paxman, Marlon Griffith, Michelle Douglas-Mills, Michael Dorr, Nancy Schnarr, Nick Di Benedetto, Sarah Forgrave, Tara Hillis, Tasha Glover, Trevor Ridgeway, Tom Graham
Absent:
Amy Meredith, Andrew Smith, Andrea Jennings, Adriann Kennedy, Alyssa Clarkson, Anar Jahangirli, Annaka Willemsen, Beth Cotter, Cassie Bechard, Daniella Cross, Dawn Charlton, Greg McIntyre, Graham Faulkner, Irene Boby, Isacc Morland, Janice Cook, Jason Greatrex, Jay Mielke, Jennifer Halcrow, Jennifer Gillies, Jim Johnston, Jodi Szimanski, Kayla Snyder, Kathryn Fedy, Lannois Carroll-Woolery, Laurel Forbes, Liam Morland, Lisa Brackenridge, Lori Suess, Marta Bailey, Martin LeBlanc, Melanie Scott, Michael Tjendra, Natasha Jennings, Pavol Chvala, Rebecca Graper, Ryan Lahti, Sami Iskandar, Stephanie Longway, Stephanie Koerne, Traci Dow, Thulasi Mahendrarajah, Tom Cauduro, Troy Grandy, Valerie Pablo, Wendy Pilpott
Minutes of April 2022 and Business Arising
The minutes were accepted as distributed.
Chair's remarks (Don Duff-McCracken)
- Don wanted to take this time to apologize to the group, after the last WAC minute things become a bit de-railed. Moving forward will ensure that to be more proactive and re-frame questions to the group if needed.
- Welcomed Elisabetta Paiano from the Faulty of Math to the committee
Overview update (Greg Smith)
- Slides from the presentation can be found here
Training and Support (Charlotte Armstrong)
155 sites in WCMS 3 as of today! (+17 since last WAC meeting on May 18)
WCMS 3 site requests since May 2/22 (start of term):
- 25 total requests
- 21 migration requests
- 8 migration requests remediated by our co-ops
- 11 migration requests remediated by department staff/co-ops
- 2 manual migrations to be completed by department staff/co-ops
- 4 new site requests
Migration requests by faculty:
- 10 from Environment
- 4 from Math
- 3 from Health
- 3 from Arts
WCMS 3 training since May 2/22:
- WCMS 3 remediation training completions: 7
- WCMS 3 Fundamentals: 36 completions, 54 registrations
- WCMS 3 Web forms: 17 completions, 21 registrations
I’ve met with some of the Website Leads to gather information about migration hesitancy and what we can do to help move forward with site migrations. More meetings will be scheduled.
Joe’s PDAG Friday June 17 WCMS 3
My PDAG Friday June 24 WCMS 3, Migrate and be GREAT!
WCMS 3 Development (Kevin Paxman)
- 3.1.9 is now on all WCMS 3 sites. Release notes are on the Web Resources site. Highlights include:
- Added support for populating fillable PDFs from form submissions
- Removed site footer area when there is no published site footer
- Adjusted content listing pages so that the number of filters no longer affects the height of the items in the content list
- 3.1.10 will begin to be built later this week, and pushed out to all sites shortly thereafter; release notes will be posted after it has been built.
- Authenticated sites and the Bibliography replacement (aka BibCite/References/Publications/Biblio) are still coming soon, but not until 3.1.11 at the earliest
- Authenticated sites ship with the same limitations as WCMS 2, where files and images are not covered by the protection, and remain that way for the foreseeable future – SharePoint remains the recommended environment for higher security needs like that
- Focus points in the current sprint include:
- Prepping for more frequent scheduled publishing runs
- Adding auto-logout after 24 hours of inactivity
- Finishing remaining facts and figures functionality for WCMS 2 parity
- Adding help text to “send from” in the web-form email handler to note that it must be an “@uwaterloo.ca” address, and using “reply-to” is recommended instead when emails are not limited to campus accounts
- Internet Explorer support has officially ended today; if you have legacy web applications that require IE, you can use Microsoft Edge with IE mode for them, but you should investigate updating/replacing those applications.
- Scheduled publishing for all live WCMS 3 sites now checks every 5 minutes to see if there is anything to publish/un-publish.
- our WCMS QA dev coop posting is now up – job ID 266379, if you happen to know anyone who might be a good fit, make sure they apply by June 21
Other Business
No other business at this time.
Adjournment
Adjournment 4:15pm